very filled with dreams

procrastinating by working on short erotic fiction is happy if i say it is!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:35:57 -0500

Once a week, she wakes up in his bed, and she collects the details of these private minutes like precious stones, tucking them away to carry with her through the next five days. “Only in New York,” he said once, “can you have a long-distance relationship with someone who lives in the same city,” and she laughed, but it’s true: it’s two hours from Wakefield to Brighton Beach, and that’s if the trains are running normally. During the week, if he doesn’t have papers to grade and she isn’t visiting clients, they meet in the Village for dinner; sometimes they splurge and go to a restaurant, but more often they buy gyros or hot dogs from a street vendor and eat them while walking, sharing anything they didn’t want to say over the phone, then finding a park to make out in like teenagers until they need to leave or risk not functioning at work the next day.

She’s taken many trains uptown with legs tightly crossed, her clit painfully swollen as she replays the paths of his hands on her waist, the cool of the breeze after his lips brushed her throat, the way her thighs clenched against his erection, before walking to her apartment, undressing, and fingering herself until she comes - usually, by this point, almost immediately, the waves of her orgasm reaching to the ends of her limbs, leaving her too exhausted even to change positions before passing out. She always sleeps deeply these nights; it almost, but not quite, makes up for the missed hours of rest.

On weekends, in his apartment, sleep isn’t a concern.

Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:20:32 -0500

novazembla:

isabelthespy:

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
2. Possession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt

3. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. The Golden Compass & its sequels - Philip Pullman

5. Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (duh)

6. The Animorphs series - K. A. Applegate and various less talented ghostwriters

7. Sandman - Neil Gaiman

8. The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter

9. Meadowlands - Louise Gluck

10. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist - too lazy to look up the authors

11. The Hanged Man - Francesca Lia Block

12. The Postman Always Rings Twice - some dude whose name I don’t remember

13. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

14. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

15. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

hmm. this list is pretty representative of what you might call my average reading taste, though i like to try new things a lot - romantic books that are about more than the romance, lots of brutally depressing books, & lots of YA; mix of contemporary and not-so-contemporary but, it’s true, nothing earlier than the twentieth century. also i just realized i assumed this list meant fiction, and it probably would have looked way different if i had been thinking nonfiction too, so here are some honorable mentions - the first 5 nonfiction books that come to my head as nonfiction books that will always stay with me - i would probably actually recommend each of these more strongly than i would recommend any of the ones above, partly because in my experience enjoying nonfiction tends to be less dependent on very specific personal taste, and partly because honestly, all the books that have broadened my horizons and made me think about new things and felt lifechanging even if they didn’t exactly change my life have been nonfiction:

1. The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through The World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

2. Drinking: A Love Story - Carolyn Knapp

3. The Harbor Boys - Hugo Hamilton

4. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - Anthony Lukas

5. No Contest: The Case Against Competition - Alfie Kohn

Ooh, yes. His Dark Materials and another book by Carolyn Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want, would definitely have been in my next ten. To my delight, I haven’t read most of your selections; I have some good reading ahead of me.
Are you (or any other awesome person reading this) familiar with Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart series? I saw it at St. Georges (named after the patron saint of used books for expatriates) and was intrigued. I love His Dark Materials and I love Mary Russell, and it seems like it might be a peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate, chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter kind of situation.

yes appetites is also awesome. basically carolyn knapp was amazing, RIP. i have not read the sally lockhart series, though i’ve been half-heartedly meaning to for years (as with so, so many other things).

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:03:34 -0500

““I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.””

- Gilda Radner (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
cool ladies speaking the truth is happy.

Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:58:50 -0500

novazembla:

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

slagath0r:

libraryland:

twowaymonologue:

booklover:

1-1984 by George Orwell

2-The Magus by John Fowles

3-Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

4-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

5-Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski

6-Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

7-One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

8-Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

9-Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R.Tolkien

10-Amber Night by Sylvie Germain

11-Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

12-The Saint of Insipient Sanities by Elif Şafak

13-Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery

14-Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

15-Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino

sweetnonsense:

1. Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)

2. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

3. The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)

4. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

5. Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)

6. Inkheart/Inkspell (Cornelia Funke)

7. Dracula (Bram Stoker)

8. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

9. The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)

10. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

11. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

12. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

13. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

14. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

15. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Sean Greer)

1. A Confederacy of Dunces

2. Guns, Germs, and Steel

3. Future Shock

4. The Princess Bride

5. The Phantom Tollbooth

6. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

7. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

8. A Short History of a Small Place

9. Breakfast of Champions

10. The Golden Compass

11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

12. The Secret History

13. Horton Hears a Who

14. The Mouse That Roared

15. Where the Sidewalk Ends

1. Haunted — Chuck Palahniuk

2. Dawn — Elie Wiesel

3. Animal Farm — Orwell

4. The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis

5. The Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis

6. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley

7. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy

8. A Farewell to Arms — Hemingway

9. The Stranger — Albert Camus

10. Choke — Chuck Palahniuk

11. I Am Legend — Richard Matheson

12. A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess

13. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury

14. The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

15. Common Sense — Thomas Paine

1. 1984

2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

3. Farhenheit 451

4. Catch-22

5. Crime and Punishment

6. Se una notte d’inverno un viaggitore

7. Jack Frusciante e’ uscito dal gruppo

8. The Secret Garden

9. La ciociara

10. The Divine Comedy

11. Candide

12. Donna in Guerra

13. Sostiene Pereira

14. Hamlet

15. Brave New World

1. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
2. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison

3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke

4. Fingersmith — Sarah Waters

5. The Basic Eight — Daniel Handler

6. Feminist Theory From Margin to Center — bell hooks

7. The Velveteen Rabbit

8. Much Ado About Nothing — William Shakespeare

9. The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster

10. Einstein’s Dreams — Alan Lightman

11. Arcadia — Tom Stoppard

12. The Soul of Man Under Socialism — Oscar Wilde

13. The Real Thing — Tom Stoppard

14. Reborn — Susan Sontag (early journals)

15. M. Butterfly — David Henry Hwang

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

2. Possession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt

3. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. The Golden Compass & its sequels - Philip Pullman

5. Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (duh)

6. The Animorphs series - K. A. Applegate and various less talented ghostwriters

7. Sandman - Neil Gaiman

8. The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter

9. Meadowlands - Louise Gluck

10. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist - too lazy to look up the authors

11. The Hanged Man - Francesca Lia Block

12. The Postman Always Rings Twice - some dude whose name I don’t remember

13. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

14. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

15. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

hmm. this list is pretty representative of what you might call my average reading taste, though i like to try new things a lot - romantic books that are about more than the romance, lots of brutally depressing books, & lots of YA; mix of contemporary and not-so-contemporary but, it’s true, nothing earlier than the twentieth century. also i just realized i assumed this list meant fiction, and it probably would have looked way different if i had been thinking nonfiction too, so here are some honorable mentions - the first 5 nonfiction books that come to my head as nonfiction books that will always stay with me - i would probably actually recommend each of these more strongly than i would recommend any of the ones above, partly because in my experience enjoying nonfiction tends to be less dependent on very specific personal taste, and partly because honestly, all the books that have broadened my horizons and made me think about new things and felt lifechanging even if they didn’t exactly change my life have been nonfiction:

1. The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through The World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

2. Drinking: A Love Story - Carolyn Knapp

3. The Harbor Boys - Hugo Hamilton

4. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - Anthony Lukas

5. No Contest: The Case Against Competition - Alfie Kohn

abbyjean: this picture always cheers me up. A KITTEN...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:17:59 -0500

abbyjean:

this picture always cheers me up.

A KITTEN SURROUNDED BY MY LITTLE PONIES IS HAPPY.

fuckyeahandysamberg: SNL Digital Short: Best Look in the...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:06:07 -0500

fuckyeahandysamberg:

SNL Digital Short: Best Look in the World

ANDY SAMBERG WITHOUT PANTS IS DEFINITELY HAPPY

ekswitaj: lolerature:(For subjecttomeg) LOLERATURE???...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:27:39 -0500

ekswitaj:

lolerature:(For subjecttomeg)

LOLERATURE??? THAT’S THE HAPPIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD!!! also, internet-specific postmodernism is always happy. as is my love of robert frost, if not his actual poetry.

alright back to happy. FUCK LAND I’M ON A BOAT...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:27:41 -0500

alright back to happy.

FUCK LAND I’M ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER
FUCK TREES I CLIMB BUOYS MOTHERFUCKER

okay seriously about that broadsheet article though

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:20:00 -0500

ekswitaj:

[lots of stuff about children being loud]

See, I understand that parents can’t and probably shouldn’t always stop their children from being loud, but what happens when it’s an issue of conflicting needs? I have sensory sensitivity issues. I CAN’T turn up my music when kids are being loud on a plane because it would hurt my ears. And read a book when there’s a horrible loud unpleasant noise? Not going to happen. So if I’m stuck in a space where that’s going on for any extended period of time, I end up in physical pain (headache+) not to mention at the end of my ability to cope which just is not OK if I have further travel arrangements to make at the end. (I also know people for whom this an even greater problem.)

I realize this isn’t what the original article was talking about and that this is slightly off-topic, but I think it is something important to consider in discussions like this. Some of us really can’t just deal with it.

ah ok taking a break from my all-cheerful-all-day because: this is a very good and important point! that i… don’t have any kind of answer for! um! awkward! i really legitimately don’t know what to say about a case like this! i do feel like it’s ok, maybe, to say something polite to the parents in question mentioning your issue (some kids also, especially older ones, might feel more compelled to be quiet in this situation. but not all, and not the little baby ones). (or maybe it is always ok as long as you are nice about it?) except, i know from people in my life who has sensory sensitivity issues, wow can some people ever be HUGE ASSHOLES about pretending those don’t exist and people who have them should just get over it! but ideally that won’t happen! but what a totally inadequate response!

inadequate, there’s the word. this is something we should 100% consider and i flat-otu have no idea what to say! you can’t really have a “quiet section” on a plane like you can on a train. so, really i have nothing to contribute to this aspect of the discussion, but i wanted to to just chime in with my agreement of this being an important thing to consider in the general issue of children being noisy in public, though it is somewhat off topic to my original topic of people being assholishly judgmental because this is the exact opposite of that, which is awesome.

"Phoenix Arizona, where I spent some of my tweenhood and where I first looked at a solar eclipse..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:10:04 -0500

“Phoenix Arizona, where I spent some of my tweenhood and where I first looked at a solar eclipse through a paper plate, read lots of Elfquest and cooked up complicated marital situations for He-Man and his sister She-Ra with Jennifer Hardin, learned how to domesticate those boys that could turn even a cotton ball into a pretend gun, dealt with Mormons, and once punched a mean dog in the face on the way to school. I didn’t have a concept for bad-assery then, being a gentle child, so mostly I just felt guilty about it for weeks, but like: the thing was between me and school, growling, and I was on a deadline. Phoenix is a hard-assed motherfucker for a seven-year-old gay kid who can recite half of Romeo & Juliet but couldn’t even walk by the see-saws without brutal self-inflicted injury resulting, and you grow up fast.”

- Jacob, as we’ve established, is magical and therefore happy.

frank o'hara, that's happy

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:49:58 -0500

My Heart

I’m not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don’t prefer one “strain” to another.
I’d have the immediacy of a bad movie,
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind. I want to be
at least as alive as the vulgar. And if
some aficionado of my mess says “That’s
not like Frank!”, all to the good! I
don’t wear brown and grey suits all the time,
do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart—
you can’t plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

the stupak amendment is fucking depressing me

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:43:43 -0500

also i have a paper to write. thus, i hereby impose a moratorium on depressing things appearing on this blog for the next 24 hours. day of rest, and all that.

okay seriously about that broadsheet article though

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:38:59 -0500

guerrillamamamedicine:

amberlrhea:

reachingtheshore:

isabelthespy:

this one, written by kate harding who is no lie one of my very favoritest internet people! i think i cried when i found her site! but ouch, this paragraph:
If I can see that the adult is trying to get the outburst in hand, and the kid is simply having none of it, I chide myself for my own knee-jerk uncharitable thoughts and try to focus instead on how frustrated that parent must be, what a crappy position she finds herself in. I believe this is The Decent Thing to Do. But at the same time, there really are parents out there who do nothing, or almost nothing, when their kids start making life miserable for everyone else on a plane or in a restaurant or in a store — and I reserve the right to smugly judge them, dammit.

i just… don’t think anyone should reserve the right to be smug, ever. can i say that? can i say that i think smugness is inherently assholish? smugness involves a closing off of your mind to alternate possibilities. also, i just don’t see the point of it. it’s self-serving at the expense of others and even if it IS justified, just… why expend mental energy on that, instead of something more positive? like you could smugly judge your fellow airplane passengers, i guess, or you could wonder about how many of them are going and how many are returning (does anyone else like to do this on airplanes?) and whether any of them are getting married, or if any of them are leaving home planning to begin a new life and if they’re sad about this or happy or a bit of both. airplanes are so great for speculating about people because you know, if nothing else, they are traveling a great distance, for usually no small cost, so they’ve got to have some kind of reason.

and you may say, “well isabel, i am not interested, personally, in making up backstories to people i don’t know” to which i say, “well great, bring a book then.” but see, when you are smugly judging the Bad Parents who Should Be Minding Their Kids, Dammit, you are already doing that! it’s like david foster wallace speech i’m completely obsessed with and reread like once a month and link all the time because it should be required reading for life, when he says, “it’s really easy to view people in terms of how irritating they are to you right now, but for all you know they are super wonderful people who have committed minor acts of heroism, and maybe it’s not the most likely thing but it sure is possible and it is to your own benefit to try and entertain that possibility when you can.”

look, i’m not going to say there are no bad parents. THERE ARE. one of mine is. i am just going to say that you absolutely cannot fucking tell from observing a parent with their children for very long whether or not they are good parents. FOR EXAMPLE: my brother and i were really shockingly well-behaved kids, by and large. if you were to see us hanging out in public with my father, you might have assumed that he was a very good father because, look how well-behaved his kids are! you would NOT have seen, in watching me and my brother entertain ourselves peacefully in our father’s company, the fact that my father is an actual sociopath incapable of loving anyone, including his children, who did a number of things to make our lives hugely stressful while we were growing up!

on the contrary, if you had seen us with our mother in the grocery store - because my mother was the actual parent in this relationship, which meant she had to take us to the grocery store sometimes, unlike my father who never needed to because we only saw him on weekends - you may have caught us in one of our whinier moods. you may have seen us fighting at each other, tattling on each other, yelling about how we wanted to go home. and you may have thought to yourself, “shit, that woman really needs to get her children under control for my personal benefit.” you would NOT have seen the fact that she was still several years from finding a treatment that would consistently alleviate the pain of her fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. you would NOT have seen that she was freaking out about how she was going to feed us on a grad student’s wages because my father wasn’t paying child support. you would NOT have seen the fact that we were ordinarily very well-behaved but the past few months had frayed all three of our nerves.

so this is why you should never judge - smugly or otherwise - parents based on a single glimpse of them in public. because you don’t fucking know what they’re dealing with, what they’re normally like, what it was that may have been that last straw today. you don’t know if the kids are quiet because they know if they misbehave they’ll get beaten till they bleed later [this is not me, for the record, this is a hypothetical but probably very real situation]. you don’t know - and Kate addresses this in her piece and then just… ignores it, which is weird - whether the kid does in fact have special needs, whether they are autistic and can’t deal with crowds but can deal less with being separated from their parents because their parents don’t have the money for a steady caretaking assistant. you just don’t know.

so shut the fuck up and read your book. it’s better for your soul than judgment.

I think that’s what bothers me the most about this sort of thing. In general, I try very hard not to be judgmental, and I had to giggle a bit when you were describing backstories for these people because I do that all the time. And when something is annoying me, I turn up the volume of my music or start reading my book or whatever distraction I need. I mean really, this is only a few hours of your life so why the hell are you wasting it worrying about what somebody else is doing? And if it’s bringing you some small amount of discomfort, just get the hell over it and move on.

It boggles my mind whenever I read people on the internet saying they have a PROBLEM with this. Really? I wonder if some people just like to sound more tolerant than thou. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be around screaming kids. Parents need to get their kids in order. Consistent parenting works; letting your kids run the show does not. And I absolutely DO reserve the right to be smug.

Oh and what I REALLY hate is when people suggest that I just feel this way because I don’t have children, and therefore I have no right to an opinion and should just shut up. First of all, I know plenty of people who DO have children and who share my opinion - for example, my mom. Secondly, do they think I’ll magically LIKE screaming, rude children once I have some of my own (because obviously THEY’LL be screaming and rude too, it’s just inherent, right, nothing to do w/ parenting styles…)? Third, yes in fact, I DO plan to have a child in the next few years, so check back in with me then and see if I feel any different. We can take bets if you want.

oh whatever. how are parents supposed to control their kids? what exactly does that look like? it is not the role of a parent to ‘control’ anyone especially their kids. they are kids. which means that they are people. and we dont have the right to go around controlling people unless those people are actually infringing on someone else’s personhood. kids yell sometimes. kids scream sometimes. kids laugh loudly sometimes. that is what kids do. i live in cairo. and one of the reasons that i do not live in the united states. is because it is sickening to me as a parent to live in usa anti-child society. it is anti-child to insist that children act like someone they are not, namely adults. in cairo. kids are everywhere. in bars, on trains, in stores, on the streets. they run. they yell. they giggle. they say hi to you 50 times. some of them work full time for almost no wages. not everything about this culture’s attitude toward children i like. but one thing that i love here and in mexico and in most of the third world. is that adults do not expect to go through their lives not having to deal with children. let me say it again. it is oppressive to expect children to act like adults. talking about children in that way is analogous to able-ism (as if making sure shit is accessible is a huge fucking burden) or fat-phobia (i shouldnt have to look at fat people who are soooo unhealthy) or ppl who speak english as a second language or so on and so forth. what a screwed up culture that we have that makes us think that we have the right to go through a world where there are no children. (or only quiet ones). where do you think all those children are? where do you think all those mothers (and fathers but lets be honest its usually mothers) are? if they arent in the plane, the store, the cafe with you? let me make this personal. i have traveled three or four continents with my daughter who is only two years old. she has fucking cried on a plane. of course. it is uncomfortable to not be able to walk, all that pressure building up in your head, the strange environment, probably a lot of stress from the parents trying to get on the plane, of course, she might get upset, overwhelmed, need to cry. she is a baby! a toddler! what do you expect? what? am i supposed to teach her -not- to express her emotions? yeah, that is what the world needs one more quiet demure repressed little girl who is a people pleaser…yep… of course we try to calm her down. but not for the passengers sake. but because i love flying and i want her to share that love with me. and if you dont want to be around children who act like children. then dont leave your house. dont go to the store. dont take a plane. isolate yourself. get all your food delivered. but stop expecting mothers and children to isolate themselves. because difference makes you uncomfortable. oh and as for the whole - consistent parenting works! - parents need to get their kids in order - im sorry. but that is just straight bullshit. kids are not loud and energetic because they lack consistent parenting. sometimes kids are loud and energetic just because they are kids. and you dont need to be a parent to know that. you just need to respect kids.

what guerrilla mama said.

also, i actually don’t expect anyone to like it when children scream. i certainly don’t, and i love children.

but mostly, what guerrilla mama said.

fuckyeahswearing: This is the advice my father gave me on my...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:33:38 -0500

fuckyeahswearing:

This is the advice my father gave me on my wedding day…

via coffeeandaknife: … porco-voador

(via worb)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:22:59 -0500

(via worb)

fuckyeahandysamberg: Okay, so in this picture, Andy is wearing...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:59:12 -0500

fuckyeahandysamberg:

Okay, so in this picture, Andy is wearing a NOW shirt. NOW stands for the “National Organization for Women.” When he wore this shirt to the Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, he got some beef for it. You can read that article here.

When I found this, I sort of panicked. Wait, Andy wouldn’t be like that, would he? Well, thanks to the lovely Rachel, we’ve concluded that no, Andy wouldn’t be like that!

If you look through the article’s comments, you’ll find this loveliness:

Hi all!

California NOW here.

Andy Samberg’s publicist contacted us directly to request a NOW shirt for him to wear at the awards show, saying Andy did not want to present if he couldn’t wear a NOW shirt. We took this as an indication of his acknowledgement that the awards—especially the one he was asked to present, “A Gift from the Gods,”for hottest female newcomer—needed an infusion of feminism. We think it was a testament to his feminism that he wanted to wear a NOW shirt while handing out that particular award, and are grateful to him for it.

The comedy bit that Andy and Will Forte did before they presented the award comically overshadowed the sexism of the award itself, which we also appreciated.

He ended up with a Berkeley NOW shirt because we were out of stock of a CA NOW shirt in his size. As luck would have it, a Berkeley NOW member is interning with us this summer, and she offered up her Berkeley NOW shirt to send to him, since that is where he is from.

Side note (from Nikki): I went to college with Andy at UC Santa Cruz. We weren’t BFFs or anything, but I did know him. He was definitely progressive back then and knowing this we were confident that his intention to counter-balance this Guy’s Choice Awards by wearing a NOW t-shirt was pure, not ironic.

-Rachel Allen and Nikki Ragsac
CA NOW

As if we couldn’t love Andy any more than we already do, this surfaces.

Thought you’d like to know! :)

DEAR ANDY SAMBERG: PLEASE TO MARRY ME. PLEASE? HOLY JESUS. I THOUGHT I COULDN’T LOVE YOU ANY MORE.

(via icanread) WELL DUH.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:23:12 -0500

(via icanread)

WELL DUH.

Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won’t Come Out (around this...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:48:00 -0500

Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won’t Come Out

(around this time of year, this album goes on heavy rotation, but this song in particular i listen to at least five times a day.)

let’s get together and talk about the modern age. all of our friends were gathered there with our pets, just talking shit about the disappearing ground as we watch it melt.

it’s all the good that won’t come out of us, and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust if we keep shaking them, standing here on this frozen lake.

i do this thing where i think i’m real sick, but i won’t go to the doctor to find out about it, cuz they make you stay real still in a real small space as they chart up your insides and put them on display. they’d see all of me, all of it, all of me…

all the good that won’t come out of me, and all the stupid lies i hide behind. it’s such a big mistake, lying here in your warm embrace.

oh, you’re almost home, i’ve been waiting for you to come in. dancing around in your old suits, going crazy in your room again. i think i’ll go out and embarrass myself by getting drunk and falling down in the street. you say i choose sadness, that it never once has chosen me.

maybe you’re right.

let’s talk about all our friends who lost the war, and all the novels that have yet to be written about them.

it’s all the good that won’t come out of them, and all the stupid lies they hide behind. it’s such a big mistake, standing here on this frozen lake. it’s all the good that won’t come out of me, and how eventually my mouth will just turn to dust, if i don’t tell you quick, standing here on this frozen lake.

siddman: maryclare:andrewshark:what-:(via completecarnage)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:27 -0500

siddman:

maryclare:andrewshark:what-:(via completecarnage)

heckyeahkrisallen: colorsblend: I love this man. Less than...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:39:31 -0500

heckyeahkrisallen:

colorsblend:

I love this man. Less than two weeks until his CD comes out!

HE IS JUST SO ATTRACTIVE