June 2010
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This is Why I'll Never be an Adult →
Hyperbole and a Half:
…a few times a year, I spontaneously decide that I’m ready to be a real adult…The first day or two of my plans usually goes okay.
For a little while, I actually feel grown-up and responsible. I strut around with my head held high, looking the other responsible people in the eye with that knowing glance that says “I understand. I’m ...
lkm:
“(H)uge numbers of lagging students were offered a free tutoring option, often in the school they already attend, but only about 10 percent signed up, and even then, most dropped out after a few sessions. (…) If only 10% of our students, whether by nature of nurture, have a desire to learn more”
— Stop right there. Wrong conclusion. The fact that only 10% of all lagging students showed up...
“I’m going to assume here (because I think it makes sense) that “male” is still...”
– oh, just making wild assumptions and shit.
Update (since I’m a jerk and don’t enable comments):
my friend Julia says: my mind might have exploded from this phrase. which i maybe read 3x. but then totally understood! i think.
The brilliant Patti pointed me to this: Gaga Stigmata, which...
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in which Lady Gaga's latest video is actually...
The premise is key, so I’ll back up a little and summarize the previous post(s) you obviously should have read about my take on Lady Gaga’s feminist commentary but couldn’t because I didn’t write them, I just explained them to my long-suffering boyfriend and also my mother:
Lady Gaga has, for some time (and with some backup from Beyoncé), been building a comprehensive...
“His earlier work shows the weather has a similar impact on us - wet, dreary...”
– Feeling grumpy ‘is good for you’ (BBC)
a grammar: True or False Quiz →
writing about music : dancing about architecture
singing about life : belching about sociology
talking about feelings : drinking about cellphones
reading about politics : cooking about theology
laughing about your mistakes : emigrating about your haircut
being hopeful about the future :…
I was in a dance about architecture once. I think I was 9, and the...
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Leap Before You Look
W. H. Auden, December 1940:
The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break the by-laws any fool can keep; It is not the convention but the fear That has a tendency to disappear. The worried efforts of the busy heap, The...