February 2012
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“The drama queens are a little more dangerous, because sooner or later you’ll...”
– Choire! (via aatombomb)
This is the hardest lesson, ever.
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Ah, guys, my guest-star week at The Awl has flown... →
…but it was pretty awesome. I got to throw shade at Rick Santorum, Ridley Scott AND George Lucas, write a little more in-depth about book criticism/solipsism (don’t click close tab), celebrate the birthdays of John Williams and Roberta Flack and other things. GOOD WEEK.
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Scary Things I Wrote Today: Who Will Protect... →
Static from all sides with this thing, PROBABLY. But I get to lightly touch on the Catholic church’s ongoing PR problem (which is largely of their own making, let’s be real) at the end, so that’s something.
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That's me...over there... →
Hey, guys, one of the benefits of funemployment is that you get to do cool things like guest-post at The Awl for a week, which is what I’m doing right now. I’ll be writing some shorter (and maybe some longer) bits for them throughout the week. Stay tuned, etc.
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I appreciate the work of “When is White History Month?” (screenshots of racist tweets asking that question) but it was so depressing and it’s only February 1st, so I had to unfollow within a few hours.
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“On Apple probably being a lesbian (Alternate Heading: Suck it, January Jones):
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– -Gwyneth Paltrow, Harper’s Bazaar
(via nyclust)
Gwynnie continues to win the worst person ever award.
(via jennyjennybobenny)
Yup.
January 2012
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“Oh yeah, that’s really gonna break his balls, if I roll in an hour late....”
– Jez, Peep Show s.4, e.4, “Handyman.”
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Internet, please furnish me with an explanation as to why, in the age of personal music listening devices, people still feel the need to BLAST their bass-heavy music so much so that the floor of, say, their upstairs neighbors’ apartment literally shakes. Am I supposed to join in this party?
monsterbeard asked: I mean, the link description w/r/t GP is completely misleading. I think what she's trying to say is that her children are growing up with a different perspective than previous generations have, which is true. She doesn't at all suggest that racism is over or something. Also, I think when she says root she's in the process of saying that it's rooted in them, but realizes that...
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Gwyneth Paltrow, world-renowned expert on... →
haguenite:
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thegreatpumpkin:
Thanks, GOOPY! What would we do without your critical social commentary?
It’s obvious from the ed. note that she did a whole lot of research.
Guess she missed the n****bitch fiasco.
“And it’s like the way I see it is that I have two little kids who are understanding the world in a time when Rihanna is on the cover of Vogue, and we...
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Golden-Notebook: Roslin is such a fascist, and I...
I have a hard time understanding that. Like, I mean, of course you can love Laura Roslin, this isn’t some kind of Roslin-ian/Adamian empire we’re living under, but her behavior after the 1st Earth debacle where she just flat refuses to address her people and hides out in Adama’s room and yet also doesn’t resign for a REALLY LONG TIME? I can’t really forgive her as a...
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Season 4 of BSG, aka the season where Gaeta gets...
Ugh this season. I mean, I think most of it is fine but those last six episodes are like
Someday I will write a long post on smallgalaxies about how Adama and Roslin are an unholy pairing and I rooted for their destruction throughout s3 and s4.
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I’m not going to say I know a lot about Lana Del Rey and that whole mess, but whenever anyone pulls out the “but she doesn’t DESERVE this level of success!” argument, it’s imperative that you know I imagine a five-year-old whining about how it’s just NOT FAAAIIRRR that Brittany’s mom lets her have two cookies instead of just one. Not possessing talent is...
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The Cathovangelical: Rick Santorum's Quest for a... →
catbawse:
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nerdshares:
What is most interesting to me here is how Santorum may be nominally Catholic but nothing he says really establishes, to my satisfaction, that he’s anything other than an evangelical. He disagrees with the party line in Rome on most things — not just the death penalty but climate change, illegal immigrants, social programs (welfare, etc), diplomatic...
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The Cathovangelical: Rick Santorum's Quest for a... →
What is most interesting to me here is how Santorum may be nominally Catholic but nothing he says really establishes, to my satisfaction, that he’s anything other than an evangelical. He disagrees with the party line in Rome on most things — not just the death penalty but climate change, illegal immigrants, social programs (welfare, etc), diplomatic relations with Iran. Just by the...
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“Feminism is not the issue any more, not for me anyway. It’s just never occurred...”
– Karen Gillan (via msjosephinemarch, passingknightly)
OH WHAT THE FUCK
BYE KAREN
BYE
(via khaleesi)
To be fair, this was part of a larger response to major slut-shaming. But yeah, the concept that female characters are strong in a vacuum and don’t need feminism (which is totes over!!) makes me...
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"Daaaaad, I can't believe you let them send me to... →
From this article: “Even though the region boasts some of the finest farmland in the world, there is a startling lack of fresh produce here.”
My mother-in-law is a vegan who lives in the woods (yes) in southern Ohio. And even though it’s an hour and a half to the nearest grocery, she and my step-FIL are still alive. People who actually cook for themselves instead of going to...
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Whispery updates time!
As of February 1st, I will be among the underemployed (TM semperidem), which is a blessing in that I will no longer have bleak imaginings of dying at my desk while editing a book review about Pope Pius XII’s legacy or something. It’s also a blessing in that it will give me the time and opportunity to work on other projects that have been long neglected (i.e.,...
“A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, It Seems to Me (via pantslessprogressive)
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Anonymous asked: How big is david geffen's dick?
December 2011
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Yet another brief note about Tumblr fights:
I think we should all recognize that even as dumb as these disagreements may seem, they are approx 5000% less hostile than they would’ve been on Usenet in the mid-90s because I can remember hearing about an A.S.G. (that is alt.showbiz.gossip, the sister newsgroup of alt.gossip.celebrities, which was gentler but populated by a lot of the same...
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We’re nearing the end of the year and I know that because there are blog warz on Tumblr and every time I read a reblog I have to ask myself if the reblogger is agreeing with the OP or is mocking the OP with ~*secret irony*~.
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brianvan:
bmichael:
it’s almost impossible to make fun of a news story without making fun of its subject, which is a kind of interesting thing to think about.
The trick is not to care either way, because all adults ought to learn how to take a fucking joke.
You know when someone says something and it is the Platonic ideal of something they would say? Like if you were writing this person...
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Public stories about the sex you’ve had should, I think, not be stories about sex or about you.
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Listen, I don't normally make Spotify playlists... →
But if this “So You Want To Have A Sexy Evening” collection of songs doesn’t get you laid, I just don’t know how to help you.
“Wanting and Wanted” — Darling →
This is a track from a friend’s demo that I first heard in ‘09 and I just remembered that it existed and that I love it. This band doesn’t exist anymore and I’m not sure my friend still performs at all so this isn’t a “support my friend’s bannddd you guyyss, rebloooggg” kind of post. I just like this.
(Also I don’t understand Tumblr’s audio...
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Michelle Dean: And let me not lie about the fact... →
michelledean:
And let me not lie about the fact that I am jealous. I am jealous that I can’t write lazy novels about me and my friends hanging around New York not knowing what to do with myself and get them published.
Why be jealous of these garbage manifestos or their authors? Their advances aren’t enviable and they are well regarded by a very small, insular group of people, most of...
filigree asked: That hair twisty thing you mentioned on small galaxies? I think you mean the Topsy Tail. Oh, the Topsy Tail. Memories.
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And just to be clear, re: this post, I do think anyone who has experienced major tragedy should be allowed to just go crazy for a year because, from my own personal experience (and I think it’s fair to call what happened in 2010-11 a tragedy), these kinds of massive crises disrupt your faith in everything — the goodwill of God, the goodwill of other people. It just fucks with your head...
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Rifling Through The X-Files: 1x06 "Ghost in the... →
smallgalaxies:
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Let’s Get Serious For a Second
“Ghost in the Machine” serves the same function for Mulder that “Squeeze” served for Scully. Just as Scully confronted the career path she might have had, in the form of school chum and asshat ladder-climber Tom Colton, the re-entrance of Lamana into Mulder’s life signals a similar...
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“Everyone is expecting us to do another year like 2011. You’re not going to get...”
– Steven Moffat on Series 7. (via doctorwho)
Oh, Jesus Christ.
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Michael Fassbender Cock Watch Countdown: 48 hours
golden-notebook:
When will the injustice end and the screencaps appear?
Have you considered going on a no-coffee strike for your cause? Take the entire country hostage by threatening to stop drinking coffee until our long national nightmare is over.
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