December 2010
88 posts
1 tag
I'm not a believer in Mercury retrograde
but after being violently ill for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, having our flight out of Indiana canceled and then, after opting out of the JANUARY 1ST flight the airline rescheduled us for, taking a 13-hour drive from Indy to NYC where the amount of time spent on the Pennsylvania Turnpike prompted a host of Flying Dutchman jokes, I find myself…slightly moved. (Of course, due to the...
Dec 29th
10 notes
1 tag
Dec 24th
54 notes
2 tags
Sometimes I wonder if a lot of the antipathy...
Like, do haters throw shade because their eyes are tired of reading the same words? I wonder, sometimes, is all.
Dec 22nd
9 notes
2 tags
“Allow me to quote one of the many many many many protesters: “If you’re not...”
– Sady Doyle: Of Course First, because it’s necessary: Allll this. Allll of it. About the commenter’s main complaint, re: making it about you: maybe s/he wants to take a similar complaint to that jerk Elie Wiesel (FoxNews-chyroned “Holocaust winner”) who wrote Night and thus...
Dec 22nd
23 notes
2 tags
Dec 22nd
1 tag
“No means no” gave a voice to the abused, the raped, the victimized. It created a...”
– Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names by Harriet J “You have names. You have voices. Please give us somebody else to point to when we are told that we can be raped in the ways Naomi Wolf has decreed are acceptable. Please let us know that we are not on our own, that...
Dec 22nd
20 notes
Dec 21st
3 tags
Me:  #real talk [redacted] is smart, talented, funny, good-looking and seemingly devoid of neuroses and that makes him totally not attractive to me too functional #WHATAWORLD  Natasha:  haha yeah like he’s obviously totally together and hot and i’m like that’s nice for him  Me:  and he’s so relaxed he’s so unbelievably chill I’m like...
Dec 21st
8 notes
2 tags
Is there any way NOT to end up on the SOM...
Is it tribute? Is it mockery? Is it BOTH? #what a bunch of fishwives
Dec 21st
3 tags
Dec 21st
349 notes
3 tags
Dec 21st
2 tags
Dec 20th
5 notes
3 tags
Dec 20th
4 notes
2 tags
Semi-related to my last post:
I do not at all understand the uproar over replacing “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays.” The pagans totally had claim over this season originally; Hanukkah falls around this time; and Christmas has become increasingly secularized anyway (Giftmas). And if changing two words to accommodate more people overshadows the birth of your [our] Lord, you…might have some...
Dec 20th
8 notes
4 tags
“So, I don’t get it. Is Gervais an Atheist because he’s never had an occasion to...”
– Play a record, A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist (via jgh-2) (via tanya77) I don’t understand this response. (This isn’t mean or accusatory, just because tone is so hard to read on the Internet - I’m just trying to understand. So, definitely not trying to start any flame...
Dec 20th
29 notes
Dec 20th
4 notes
Thank you for this. I have never discussed my sexual assault with anyone close to me, in fact I have never called it that before. I want to just type it all out here, in fact, I have started a few times and erased it: this is aloud as it’s ever been allowed to be. I would have never thought to contact the police; we were friends. He knew I was promiscuous. He was mentally abusing me on a...
Dec 20th
27 notes
lenorebeadsman asked: #ADVICENEEDED

Storebought ravioli for 10 PM dinner or egg sandwich for 10 PM dinner or try to find some cheese or something in the fridge for 10 PM dinner
#URGENT
Dec 18th
qed-deactivated20110916 asked: #ADVICENEEDED
I have a hangnail on my thumb and it ruining my otherwise flawless nails. Taking care of it is going to hurt, though! What do I do?
Dec 18th
7 notes
#ADVICEONWINE
lenorebeadsman: “His friends were like, you’re a wine expert, and I was like, no, I’m an expert on everything when I’m drunk on wine.” sez nerdshares for #ADVICEONWINE click here. for #ADVICEONMARGARITAS click here. I have had both tonight so, in the words of Ronnie, “come at me, bro,” etc.
Dec 18th
1 tag
Dear interested parties:
The #WHATAWORLD hashtag is trending on Gchat status updates of my friends. Just letting you know.
Dec 17th
6 notes
2 tags
Is it gauche to repeat myself?
Julian Assange is a flight-risk. In light of this, he should really have no bail. Posting his bail = allowing him not to stand trial. Shrugging over this = not caring if he stands trial. Not caring if he stands trial = not caring if rape crimes are prosecuted. Not caring if rape crimes are prosecuted =  contributing to a culture where women have no *practicable* recourse for rape. Some people tend...
Dec 17th
2 tags
Dec 17th
19 notes
2 tags
Also, I don't mean to treat this lightly
but the entire exchange with “Elizabeth,” and the retroactive romanticizing of their ONE encounter made me think “Um, Julian? You need to get drunk and make out with strangers in bars a lot more often.” Jump-offs need not be earth-shattering. That’s kind of the point.
Dec 17th
5 notes
1 tag
Jake: What was it you said that one time? Let me think. Oh yeah, “crush over”? SUUURRREEE. Me: My crush on SOLVING MYSTERIES will never be over.
Dec 16th
6 notes
3 tags
Good news, everyone! →
The Key of Awesome’s Ke$ha Glitter-Puke parody of Tik Tok was the 2nd most-watched video of the year! I was there that day, shooting behind the scenes and also throwing the “puke” (day-old chili) into the toilet. That…was some good throwing on my part, right? 50 million views worth of good, right?
Dec 15th
8 notes
Dec 15th
37 notes
2 tags
There are times when I really love living right...
like when I feel a warm spring breeze hitting my face as I come out of my building, ready to start my morning. But then there are times like last night, where I was weighted down by: an overnight bag my purse beer from the corner bodega a bag containing leftovers my mother insisted I take with me the non-garbage Christmas-tree star she bought me AND the Joseph/Mary/Baby Jesus statue (yes,...
Dec 15th
Dec 15th
445 notes
1 tag
Excerpts from Skype chats
Me: Jake, I’ve ruined everything! *throws up hands* Jake: [appalled] What are you talking about? YOU HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING.
Dec 15th
3 notes
In which I discuss the Voight-Kampff test... →
Dec 15th
10 notes
Things that are happening tonight:
1. Wine (obviously). 2. Torchwood. Yes, still. 3. Listening to this over and over (9 minutes never long enough). 4. Maybe #ADVICEONWINE 5. Figuring out what to do with http://summerofmegadethslash.tumblr.com now that I’ve parked it. 6. Tree decorating…maybe…oh holidaze.
Dec 14th
3 tags
But, speaking of stat counter findings,
I especially pity those poor A.P. English students who google “toni morrison beloved sixty million and more” and find THAT discussion. Oh boy.
Dec 14th
1 tag
You came here for Sexy Businesswoman Tumblr?
Sorry about that, Sweden.
Dec 14th
10 notes
2 tags
Dec 14th
95 notes
1 tag
Dec 14th
217 notes
1 tag
Dec 14th
45 notes
So Ben Folds is a judge on this show, called Sing-Off, which I have never seen before, and his critiques are so precise and detailed but delivered with the utmost gentleness and calm. It really makes me want to call him up and tell him my problems so he can solve them with the comforting and the lack of judgment.
Dec 14th
2 tags
Dec 13th
5 tags
Dec 12th
15 notes
I’ve considered watching Christmas movies because of HOLIDAZE but I just wrote a long email to Chris in which I discussed, at length, why Ridley Scott’s bullshit about Deckard being a replicant cuts all of the poignancy from his relationship with Rachael, so I think I really need to watch Blade Runner for the thousandth time.
Dec 12th
6 notes
Dear dignity,
you inhibit me. This is wrong. xo, R
Dec 12th
13 notes
1 tag
The transcript of Bernie Sanders' "long speech." →
fuckyeahberniesanders: Click through and click “retrieve document” for the PDF.
Dec 11th
60 notes
1 tag
tristn said: look at you cool kids Hey, hey, we don’t use the ‘c’ word ON THIS BLOG. (Mostly because: factual inaccuracies. To wit: was tempted to give a stranger a full-body embrace today because I overheard him say “the empirical data is what keeps us...
Dec 11th
3 tags
Dec 11th
1 tag
Dec 11th
“I am absolutely sure that millions of people in one way or another are telling...”
– Bernie Sanders, 5:11 EST today. Hour 6.75. (via liberalsarecool)
Dec 10th
187 notes
3 tags
"It's thievery. And we tolerate it. And we bail...
— Bernie Sanders This is unbelievable. I need a transcript.
Dec 10th
16 notes
Dec 10th
1 tag
Reviewing #ADVICEONWINEWITHNERDSHARESPTII chats...
Me: THIS DUDE GIVES YOU MISERY EVERYWHERE BUT THE PANTS Natasha: lol this is the truest
Dec 10th