February 2010
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The Case for an Older Woman (oktrends) →
I love the OKCupid blog and the guys who are writing it. Even when they’re revealing really irking things about how gender works in our society, they mean so well.
This article is great. My favorite points (may be exaggerated for drama):
Guys have a pathological problem with dating older ladies and a bizarre affinity for inappropriately younger women.
Ladies are quite reasonable about...
“I’ve never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by...”
– Maria Bamford (via beeborg)
Nada Surf - Do It Again:
I bought a stack of...
“The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...”
– Treaty signed by George Washington, 1796.
[Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists | The Smirking Chimp]
(via nickdouglas : doublejack : piscesinpurple : alinasmith)
Waiting for the Google Buzz Privacy Outcry
otwas:
benbrown:
It will only be a matter of time now before my mother calls me to ask why I keep emailing her to tell her all about my late night bowel movements/software releases. ”I’m not emailing you, mom! Google decided it was a good thing to crap everything I say into your email inbox so that you won’t miss out on the exciting world of social media.”
…
I feel they are trying to...
“We should assemble all those who are pure and cannot abide other faiths, put...”
– Wole Soyinka, via givemesomethingtoread
This is the best quote on religion I’ve seen since Zora Neale Hurston’s “Gods always behave like the people who make them.” Mostly because it comprehends the connection between purity and lack of tolerance, but partly because firing...
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“and so they talked two hours or more, perhaps about Cape Horn, perhaps not, and...”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Elizabeth Bradfield:
Because this life, this alarm clock time card percolator direct deposit income tax stop light
seems vast and blank and numbing.
Tell me secret orchids hide between the black rock and the ice.
Tell me a wild bird sings deep in the crevasses, windstrokes cracking air.
Tell me there’s a surface we can walk on lidding miles of plumed and luminescent fish.
I’m...
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name meme thing + androgyny = magic
The plan: look up your first name on urbandictionary.com. Bah, I thought, this’ll be boring. But look! It was not.
1. awesomest name in the world, i.e. Person 1: Man corey is wicked awesome Person 2: oh hell yea dont forget it
2. Comes From A Scotish Term Meaning Amazement, It Originates From Here Because In The Old Scotish Towns The person they had no idea how they managed to survive or...
Note to myself
ipomoea:
do not ever watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in class with a bunch of 22-year-olds, because when the house lights come up, you’re just the weird lady trying to stifle your sobs.
OH SHIT TOO LATE. SORRY, BABIES. MARRIED LADY FREAKOUT.
I did this once, except the movie was Big Fish, and the 22-year-olds were my students. Man, is it embarrassing to turn up the house lights...
“We could … produce the Fundamentally Sound, Sure-Fire Top Five Components...”
– (via jamiedaniel: Amy Bloom in Sunday’s Book Review on the annoying simplification of happiness in the self-help genre. Read it.)
Oh, because these five are so easy. This article hits exactly the points I’ve been thinking about for a while now - thanks, Jamie!
“Because we can only attend to a tiny portion of the sensory cacophony around us,...”
– “Why Can’t We Concentrate?”, Laura Miller’s Salon review of a new book by Winifred Gallagher