January 2010
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“What we have to do I think is devoutly to pray for his death.”
– Jefferson to Madison on how to handle Patrick Henry
(i greatly missed you, early american politics)
“They didn’t send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of steel-cage...”
– oh ho! i beg to differ, mr. president. (here)
file under: you've got to be fucking kidding me →
vigilantism is the new bill of rights
“The more Salinger writes about them, the more the seven Glass children melt...”
– 1961 review by Updike
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friendship
Mariel: all i'm saying is that saturday i will be watching a puppy
which is meant to entice you to my island (clearly)
and perhaps a rousing round of settlers [of catan]
Elsa: you know my buttons!
Mariel: haha
Elsa: (puppies, nerdy board games)
(food? cake?)
Mariel: (yes yes)
(i can promise those things too)
“A MOTHER???!! I can’t play a MOTHER! (Loudly, to anyone within earshot) Would a...”
– Jenna, 30 Rock (via flamelikeme)
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“It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
Bye, Glass family, bye Caulfield, bye Salinger.
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NYT: Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87 →
leilacohan:
Rest in peace, sir. Oh, this makes me sad. And also, want to sit down and reread A People’s History of the United States.
Born in New York in 1922, Professor Zinn was the son of Jewish immigrants who as a child lived in a rundown area in Brooklyn and responded strongly to the novels of Charles Dickens. At age 17, urged on by some young Communists in his neighborhood, he attended a...
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“god, why can we just descend into a gray gardens like existence?!?!”
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louis auchincloss
farewell last remnants of old new york.
“I grew up with a distinct sense that my parents were only tolerably well off. This is because children always compare their families with wealthier ones, never with poorer. I thought I knew perfectly well what it meant to be rich in New York. If you were rich, you lived in a house with a pompous beaux-arts facade and kept a butler and gave children’s...
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Modern Politics
sunplusnightplusjess:
regan:
Cramming a black woman, an asian man, a soldier, and a wholesome looking blonde woman in a tight screen shot for the Republican Response to the SOTU Address. I wonder if non-white, non-male Republicans get frustrated for being pulled up to the front row at every public outing.
naw cuz that’s an issue of dignity. and i’m pretty sure they gave that up when they,...
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January 28, 2010
leilamakesjokes:
In his State of the Union speech last night, Obama urged his fellow Democrats not to “run for the hills.” Looks like he’s replaced his “yes, we can” chant from the elections with “please don’t leave.”
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“if you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to...”
– alice roosevelt longworth
Intel: The Poet Dating His Much-Younger Former... →
leilacohan:
Okay, even by Sex Diary standards, this is super weird. “I send porn to 20-Year-Old and we both masturbate while texting. It is cartoon porn about maids banging nurses with strap-ons in fifties London.” Is that a legitimate fetish?
Amusant.
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Fun in context!
“This one time…when you lived in Geneva…Sonic had Will and Jon fighting over her and it made fabulous fodder.”
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The David Cross and Spike Jonze Comedy Pilot Has... →
flamelikeme:
(via terriblethings)
AHHHHHH GODDDDDD CAST MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PRRRREAAAAAAASE
It would be a really good idea, TV.
post me love letters
Monkey Movie!!! →
A movie made entirely by primates! Licking the camera is clearly the best idea anyone’s had in a long time.
Gawker: John Edwards Has a Sex Tape →
leilacohan:
Oh this is just gross. Ugh, I voted for him in 2004!
The question is: why? Why does he have that? WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A BRILLY IDEA????? The horse woman? And I don’t mean the woman who owns horses when I say that. At least make a sex tape with someone ridiculously hot (and, no, that does not mean yourself, J.E., get a grip).
The following realization occurred this weekend: we listen almost exclusively to ace of base-inspired music. And, we’re so happy (/relieved) it’s cool.
Dare to dispute? We’ll talk.
the latest from beach house →
in its entirety
a: i have gotten the guy in my building to stop making eye contact
me: good job! who? the devout muslim who loves you? did you tell him you were a devout catholic and it made the baby jesus weep to think of you with him?
a: nope. he thought my dad was my boyfriend and now he wont look at me.
me: that works, too.
relieved i'm not the only one driving and crying... →
flamelikeme:
mindy kaling on her fake future family.
(link via elsa)
is something we all secretly do? i cry sometimes on the treadmill (thank god the tears mix with sweat and no one notices) after seeing the wednesday’s child piece or some other “child overcoming adversity”sob story on the news. however, i’m not actually crying over those children. no, why would i do...
in the hallway
Joel Schumacher looks like Andy Warhol’s fucking ghost if Andy Warhol’s fucking ghost had longer hair.
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a new code of conduct →
“The dictates include bans on suicide bombings against civilians, burning down schools, or cutting off ears, lips and tongues.”
just the basic warlord starter kit! →
I could get behind this job.
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“You know, nobody takes really good micro-economic research seriously anymore.”
– (one can safely assume this was a self-referential comment by a man who wears mock turtlenecks in all seriousness)
WatchPerhaps it was my state of mind last night, but this might be the new funniest (read: sickest) show on the tv. (if you’re having trouble seeing it…voila!)
Watchleilacohan:
WHOAMG, you guys!!!!!!! Faerie Tale Theatre’s “The Dancing Princesses”, a video I rented every. single. week. as a kindergartner, is on Hulu.
Related: why didn’t my parents just buy the damn video?
!!!!!!!!! I WATCHED THIS SERIES ABOUT EIGHTY TIMES A WEEK! A WEEK. Oh, childhood. Tu me manques.
To answer your related: They didn’t buy it because going to the video store also...
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Miss Loves Herself Some Motherfucking Cake was not lying. This is by far the best blog out there. THE BEST. This post? This very post? If you do not fall on the floor laughing by the end (and there is a picture! A PICTURE! to help supplement your joy) then we should probably never speak again.
attn: Mariel
elsam:
Two can play at the family archives game! Your photos led to me Google my grandparents’ names, which had the most boring results, but for this (from 1909):
Things I did not know about are “Bessie W. Balston, at one time an actress of some note [BURN!].” My great-great grandfather’s mistress, I suppose.
Els! I sense new prospects for us this year! IN ARCHIVING! I think several trips...
because looking backwards MEANS looking forward.* →
“The Justice Department also faces questions about its larger role in creating the circumstances that led to the use of so-called enhanced interrogation and restraint techniques at Guantánamo and elsewhere. In 2006, the use of a gagging restraint had already been connected to the death on January 9, 2004, of an Iraqi prisoner, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Jameel, in the custody of the Army...
“I love New York, I love the smell of New York, I love the city of New York, I...”
– 1. There’s an iHop in the city?
2. You are a fucking liar, H. Ford. NO ONE loves the way this city smells and people like you do not take the subway. The bus, maybe, but never the subway.
