August 2012
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Things that inexplicably* enrage me
Perfectly able-bodied people pressing the handicapped button and waiting for the door to swing open. This includes small children, even when they’re not fighting over whose “turn” it is to push the button.
July 2012
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Here I am talking to Robin Young of WBUR's Here... →
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Shakira, “Estoy Aquí” (1996)
Estoy...
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It’s not that I think the Buddha was wrong about perfection being freedom from desire — not at all — it’s just that I’m pretty sure he figured it out after spending an afternoon in the vicinity of children under the age of seven who began every sentence with “But I wanna.”
The Discography: ATTENTION NEW YORKERS (plz... →
thediscography:
If you or anybody you know is aware of 2BRs for rent in Queens, around Jackson Heights and Astoria, on or before Sept. 1—ASAP is great too—PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS YOU CAN. My sister and her family are here for her to go to get her Masters in Psychology at Columbia University, and her…
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The Tubes, “She’s a Beauty”...
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I stayed up until 6 this morning catching up on Bunheads (the fundament undergirding all my negative personal decisions is poor time management), because a) Sutton Foster and b) I haven’t watched a lick of television since the Community finale and it was starting to feel unnerving. I never watched Gilmore Girls, so I’m coming to this as a Sherman-Palladino newbie, and man does the repartee get...
Anonymous asked: So about that high school writing. I am soliciting it.
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“I can only answer that when we look inside the water-cooler sands of time, that...”
– Nick Kroll as Jorge Luis Borges, the Dead Authors Podcast
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Carmen Miranda, “O samba e o tango”...
A chillwave cover of “I Wanna Be Adored” that changes the last word to “Ignored.”
softcommunication asked: Bogart. Why Chicago? Whyeeeeeeee?
isabelthespy asked: what haunts you the most? what old wound still feels fresh? what are you most afraid to admit you want? am i creepily personal enough yet?
isabelthespy asked: what are good kinds of questions to ask you HELP I AM STUCK
cureforbedbugs asked: When are you gonna self-publish a book with all of your awesome writing and stuff in it?!
Now soliciting; enquire within. →
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“Not remotely close enough to you to give an honest answer, so let’s just drop...”
– One of these days I swear I’m going to give this answer when a stranger asks “how are you?”
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I love Andy Richter. →
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Placeholder for a post about how any Batman story...
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bookbat replied to your post: Things I Wrote in High School
I thought you were going to post actual text of something you wrote in high school and I was really excited. & now I kind of want to have a Post Something You Wrote in High School theme week.
I mean, my first instinct is always Yay Theme Weeks, but then I went looking and found some of those old documents on a buried folder on my...
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Things I Wrote in High School
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A fantasy story which combined the siblings-transplanted premise of the Narnia stories with the wartime-travel premise of the Lord of the Rings. I mostly remember setpieces in forests and caves.
A fantasy story which combined the suffering-orphans trope from Dickens with the madcap bizarreness of the Oz books. I remember, like, a giant mouse with butterfly wings? That can’t be...
4Him, “Where There Is Faith”...
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Tried to excerpt; failed. Eloquent and incisive as... →
I came to Catholicism as an adult, choosing it as rationally as I’ve chosen anything — which isn’t very — and so mostly don’t connect viscerally to most art and literature that deals in a memoiristic manner with the experience of being (or having been) Catholic. There are obvious reasons for this, of course: the vast majority of Catholics were born into the religion, and experienced it as a...
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Words murmured to myself while holding A Hologram...
“Jesus, Eggers.”
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“Maleficent is undoubtedly the most powerful individual in the kingdom, if not...”
– kate via Autostraddle — Evil Disney Queens Are Doing It For Themselves (via autostraddle)
well this was beautiful (via isabelthespy)
Ahggghggghh yes exactly on the divine (pun intended) Ursula! Except (again) in the climax, where she a) has to be a drag stereotype (“my poopsies!”) when her eels...
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I’ve been rewatching a lot of Disney movies lately (I’m kind of going through a thing, maybe, unless I turn out not to be), and it’s been making me have all kinds of thoughts on the Monstrous Feminine and what exactly masculinity consists of and other things I’m not going to blog about because the chances of me getting through any of those minefields without blowing up in a...
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I wrote about Kitty Wells for the Atlantic. →
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For the record, there is only one O in my first...
I don’t know why it sends me into a towering rage when someone spells it Jonathon (or even more disgustingly Johnathan/on) in an electronic communication, but I want to scream at them MY EMAIL ADDRESS/MY WEBSITE NAME/MY CHAT NAME IS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU YOU SON OF A BITCH THERE ARE ONLY LIKE TWO PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO SPELL THEIR NAME JONATHON AND THEY ARE PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKES WHO...
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Coming up: Radiohead
oneweekoneband:
Thank you, Chris!
Next up, we’ll be talking about some little Oxford five-piece called Radiohead. You might have heard of them!?
The brave soul tasked with giving her take on the internet’s favourite band is Daniella Joseph, who blogs about music at soft communication.
See you tomorrow.
— Hendrik
YES.
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Nineteen popular names for boys, 2011.
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All selected from the Social Security Administration’s list of the 1,000 most popular names for baby boys in 2011, in order of their popularity:
4. Jayden
9. Aiden
37. Brayden
70. Ayden
90. Hayden
105. Kayden
107. Aydan
119. Kaden
136. Caden
186. Jaiden
259. Braden
535. Raiden
592. Jaydon
636. Aidyn
660. Aydin
682. Aydan
873. Jaidyn
908. Jaydon
961. Jaydan
984....
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This is how out of the Latin pop loop I've been: I... →
