January 2011
34 posts
This might actually be the best (and real) headline ever:
New Dietary Advice From Government: Just Eat Less
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file under: really boring and tedious semantics...
Ha, ha! “Dea.” stands for Deacon. You have illuminated my damn diary AND made my day, OED Online.
“U.S. colloq. abbrevs. of deacon n.1 1c, 1d.
1821 Massachusetts Spy 4 Apr., Dea. Ebenezer Read.”
“A fatwah is like the Declaration of Independence. Oh, I’m so glad the Daily Jolt...”
– Marc Lendler, The Clinton Years (via professorquotes)
So, a few things:
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE SMITH PROFESSOR QUOTES TUMBLR UNTIL TODAY????
Marc Lendler was my thesis advisor and all-time favorite professor.
The Daily Jolt doesn’t exist anymore?????????
(via leilacohanmiccio)
The one...
“The current popular unrest in the Arab world has a lot of lessons for...”
– Michael Hirsh for the National Journal: The WikiLeaks Revolt (via kateoplis)
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“let’s have a day when we turn our offices into forts!”
– love working with friends
There is thunder in our hearts.: Things that are... →
elsam:
1. The Natalie Portman-Mila Kunis thing is a point barely worth making, so all I’ll say is: how distinctly unfortunate for Mila, in this case, that her movie is coming out after Natalie’s.
2. The point has been made that Natalie Portman is “sleeping her way through the cast of That 70s…
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Smithies Complaints →
this brings me back
bangable dude in history: dead man porn for your... →
other than being obscenely jealous that i didn’t come up with this, oh my god this is just great. just. great.
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dying for old hickory →
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well, the iron and wine album is perhaps the worst thing i’ve listened to in a while. as predicted. quel dommage.
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise...”
– whitman, 1855 preface
(via coldplums)
The earnestness of my love for Walt Whitman is…something.
(via leilacohanmiccio)
because he’s so american? or because he’s so new englandy despite not being from new england?
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“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise...”
– whitman, 1855 preface
[at least the reading is good.]
[yes. i am taking a class on an eleven year time span of history. eleven. years.]
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oh i will post this. i will.
[email to me] Regan: also, I saw Blue Valentine and didn’t like Michelle Williams, but she was flustered in one scene and I was like “wait, she has some of the same mannerisms as Mariel, and delicate features like her, too” and then I felt bad for going so hard on her
[email to E & L with above compliment in order to avoid singing my own praises here]
[email response from...
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where have i been? i think i’ve been hibernating but it might be sincerely too cold to tell. i have been transcribing a diary. i have been consuming episodes of downton abbey like little vials of some necessary drug. i have been painting pictures with black calligraphy ink. i have been planning and thinking and plotting and planning some more. i’ve definitely eaten a lot, but mostly i...
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a: well, what do you think about?
me [in earnest]: how will we arrange our books?!?! that is what i think about. will we get rid of duplicates? how will it work!!
a: psh. we will arrange them by color. obviously. and then we will burn the duplicates on the front lawn to make a statement to the neighbors.
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overheard: two nine year old boys on the corner of...
boy 1: well that's why i didn't ask her out
boy 2: shoo', even if you had she woulda dissed yo' ass.
[snap]
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