January 2011
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I could never leave because with whom would I share this?
In case you’re wondering, “Matt Smith kitten GIFs” turn up disappointing results.
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Hypothetical question:
If I did DELETE MY TUMBLR, I’d still be able to go to Tumblr events, right? This isn’t like graduating from a high school and then being the creepy alum at every subsequent school dance, right?
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Reading in Brooklyn!
italicsmine:
Next Friday, January 28th, I’ll be in New York to read from my novella, If You’re Not Yet Like Me. The event will be held at the beautiful Book Court bookstore in Brooklyn, and I’ll be sharing the evening with fellow Flatmancrooked author Shya Scanlon.
If you’re in New York, please come! Or send your stand-in, your ambassador, and/or your personal assistant.
Patrick will be...
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“If readers simply believe the world is stupid and shallow and mean, then [Bret]...”
– Today is actually David Foster Wallace Quote Day. (via heyitsnorton)
“But I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I...”
– from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Dear Self, [Part 2 of a continuing series]
Enabling Genius mixes on iTunes and discovering your “Urban Crossover” automix was the best thing you’ve done so far in 2k11. Pls download all related songs.
Also, who remembered that Usher’s Nice and Slow was even in your iTunes? Man.
xx
Me
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Dear self, [Part 1 of a continuing series]
People you like are actually not morally obligated to hate the people you hate. Trust.
xx
me
Why do I bother? Gabe is all over this week's (?)... →
Gabe’s notes in italics:
When I got downstairs this morning at the crack of whenever [Ed. note: right], the coffee machine said “ERROR 8” and wouldn’t let me make the cup I had been dreaming about [Ed. note: First of all, LIAR, you were not dreaming about a cup of coffee so shut up. Second of all, your coffee machine is clearly just your typical working mom’s SUPERCOMPUTER...
File this under "Why We're Friends, This Is" PART...
Me: “On a less manic day, this would be my couple of hours in the office to work on GOOP, come up with ideas, write/edit and go over scheduling, travel, whatever else I have going but I have no time so I just pop the old cabeza in to see if there are any deadlines or fires that need putting out.”
“pop the old cabeza in”
pop the old cabeza in
Natasha: ENHANCE
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File this under "Why We're Friends, This Is"
Me: but [Children of Earth] was dramatically satisfying, probably as good as Torchwood’s ever been.
Jake: Indeed.
Me: gwen was really tolerable
likeable even!
Jake: Let’s not go crazy.
I know we're all stuck on "blood libel" but...
inthesaddle:
skybarn:
nerdshares:
did anyone else get chills when Palin said she grieved for the loss of the “innocent victims”?
… … …
As opposed to the guilty victims?
But I kind of love watching Palin reading a teleprompter because you can tell she’s thinking real hard about where to put emphasis and when a vigorous head nod is required. And not always getting it right?
Yes!
The...
I know we're all stuck on "blood libel" but...
did anyone else get chills when Palin said she grieved for the loss of the “innocent victims”?
… … …
As opposed to the guilty victims?
But I kind of love watching Palin reading a teleprompter because you can tell she’s thinking real hard about where to put emphasis and when a vigorous head nod is required. And not always getting it right?
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This strikes the right balance between "Ali McGraw... →
I’m petite enough to get away with that hemline, I think.
“For Simic, of course, we have proven ourselves many times over capable of folly and wrong beyond imagination, of having created a history that Walter Benjamin describes as ‘a single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage.’ And yet also for Simic there burns within us a lightness, a joy, a great and refreshing hope in what we have been given. The master of...
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"Her hippie/bohemian style makes me want to be...
Things I may have said and meant today.
I give up on Gchat.
Everyone is angrier and thus a faster typer than I am.
popularfavorites asked: F/M/K - Summer of Megadeth, SUMMER OF MEGADETH, ϟÜ/\/\/\/\ËЯ Фf MËGДDӘTH?
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joyengel asked: Important! F/M/K Eccleson, Tennant and Smith.
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In which Gabe DOGS Country Strong but good. →
Also, there are major spoilers — which: who the hell thought there would be anything to spoil in this movie? But, yes, hilarious spoilers.
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Overheard in the halls of 30 Rock
msnbc:
“So my friend has a theory on all these birds that are dying: It’s the aliens. They’re doing it.”
Finally, some logical speculation on this situation.
Sounds like someone at 30 Rock is pals with Joy.
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Videogum: Gwyneth Paltrow Does Not Worry Too Much →
As for her current role in Country Strong, Paltrow confessed to some transgressions from her normally clean-living philosophy to help her get into character as an alcoholic singer.
“You just get really drunk all the time,” she says. “Which is awesome! At least I did anyway, it’s not very professional. There’s a Bloody Mary at 10 a.m. and keep it going all day!”
The thrill, she added, was...
BBC One Live Stream →
adeathlyhallow:lesvivants:midnightentity:
This is the only GIF that matters.
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On the RBNS (second) shut-down
Did you all see this anonymous e-mail that Jacy of RBNS received?
Yeah, it’s hard to take a lawsuit seriously when the putative complainant sends an anonymous e-mail. And that cuts to the heart of what annoys me about this whole business. You know who Jacy and JP are? Send cease-and-desist letters to their homes. Or don’t. Sue them. Or don’t. One could make the case that RBNS is...
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Oh god, Naomi Wolf, please stop. Please. →
The title of this article is “Julian Assange’s sex-crime accusers deserve to be named.”
Let’s consider, for a moment, the significance of choosing “deserve” in this particular context. Not should be. Not ought to be. Deserve.
“Hard-core porn, which is what Internet porn largely traffics in, is undoubtedly...”
– Natasha Vargas-Cooper ponders sex and porn in the Internet age.
Read the full article here.
(via theatlantic)
I understand that anyone who uses the dreaded “I” gets accused of being a narcissist, but I feel like this article could’ve used a lot more “I” statements.
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"And he doesn't eat toads, he licks them."
Don’t talk shit about Lenore’s dog, okay?
More dead birds found - this time, in Sweden →
msnbc:
First, New Year’s Eve fireworks were blamed in central Arkansas for making thousands of blackbirds confused, crashing into homes, cars and each other. Then 300 miles to the south in Louisiana, power lines likely killed about 450 birds, littering a highway near Baton Rouge. Now, 50 to 100 jackdaws, a bird species in the crow family, were found dead in central Sweden late Tuesday night.
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jakec said: Is this not the quote Gaga has tattooed on her?
In fact, it is not! But Gaga does have a Rilke tattoo, which I addressed here.
I pulled six catalogs out of my mail today. All...
Relax, bra company.
A brief open letter to Robert Krulwich:
Dear Robert,
You host Radiolab and have a science-y blog for NPR with NO BACKGROUND IN SCIENCE?!?! HELP ME BE LIKE YOU. CALL ME, ROBERT KRULWICH.
xo,
R.N.
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And can I say that there was a passage in "real...
that started off just flatly discussing the soul? And I LOLed. Hard. And that entire novel was grounded in Platonic metaphysics (the inexorable separation of the soul from the body! and from the world!), which is basically Philosophy 101, except there was also a healthy (haha) dose of Sartrean angst. Joshua Ferris is a talented writer and maybe he is “realer” in his writerliness than...
Do a favor for a real writer.
filigree:
brutallyhonestbabes:
Please do not buy Snooki’s book. No. Please do not — not for laughs, not for fun, not just because “you have to.” Please just say no. Buy the book of another debut novelist (a real one), or a lesser known writer you haven’t read before instead. Maybe if these novelty books don’t sell, they’ll not be published anymore.
No! Absolutely buy Snooki’s book if...