February 2012
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i've waited my whole life to be a pretend...
[subtitle: a true story of narcissism and whimsy]
setting: pilates class, last night
wonderful and generally bitchy instructor: are you a dancer?
me: ugh, no. i’ve just done a lot of yoga.
instructor: well, you move like a dancer. very impressive.
me: (collapses on the floor in a pile of sheer joy! DREAMS HAVE BEEN REALIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
and then i...
“To the Editor,
I am the president of the Smith Club of Westchester County. I...”
– Oh, okay. Cool. Thanks. (via iveneverheardofyou)
This is amazing and it is not a joke. I love letters to the editor.
Love, Mitford Style →
nyrbclassics:
We still had almost two hours before the boat would leave. Esmond suddenly became preoccupied and silent. He suggested walking down by the quai. We passed rows of waterfront cafés with their bright, painted fronts and inviting handwritten menus tacked on the doors. We leaned over the railing and watched craft of all sizes and shapes manoeuvering about in the rough, windy...
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chicago, columbia, harvard, princeton, OH MY!
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chicago, columbia, princeton, OH MY!
important thoughts yesterday/today
“if i was still in new york it would be totally ok to drink at lunch/if i was still in new york somebody would come with me to drink at lunch.”
yesterday i wanted to drink in celebration. today i need a hair of the dog. and neither will happen until after i get home.
dreams can come true
as is evidenced by our clothing choices a mere thousand-something miles apart:
“I have on a yellow silk dress and black riding boots.”
“i have on purple hunter boots and a huge blue scarf i bought in london for 5 pounds. WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER.”
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eatingpieelsewhere:
“In India, where busloads of underprivileged children donned Gandhi costumes to mark the 64th anniversary of the Mahatma’s death, people continued to plug headphones into robots’ crotches in order to have their fortunes told.”
Harper’s Weekly takes a turn for the surreal this week. There’s a whole section about monkeys that didn’t lend itself to effective quoting.
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“That is why the better part of our memory exists outside ourselves, in a blatter...”
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin (via proustitute)
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the perfect school →
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an email to my mother
“and i still wouldn’t give these motherfuckers a dime.” i’m looking forward to her snarky reply which will likely be “hi sweetie, thanks for this article. love, mom”
this morning was a two mountain morning which means that i could see both sun coming slowly up and over the snow capped cascades, just like a giant bright orange runny egg yolk, and then turn my head to the west and see a beautiful soft pink and purple gloaming hovering over the snow capped olympics.
i need a better camera.
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nothing i say is intended to be a factual...
After the Republican whip, Jon Kyl, of Arizona, said on the floor of the Senate that abortion constitutes “well over ninety per cent of what Planned Parenthood does,” Planned Parenthood reported that abortions make up less than three per cent of its services, whereupon a Kyl staffer offered that what Kyl had said “was not intended to be a factual statement.”
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i walked around late in the summer and picked squash blossoms from zucchini vines that did not seem to appeal to their owners. am i proud of this filch? no. were my omelets with fresh squash blossoms delicious? yes. would i do it again? of course.