August 2010
68 posts
“If I lived alone and something broke, I’d just work around it: use a paint...”
– David Sedaris, “Keeping Up”
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“In literature as in love, we are astounded at what is chosen by others.”
– André Maurois
“My boobs are crushing me.”
– Heidi Montag
Also, our collective American soul.
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“I have a deal with my wife and two kids that when my shorts move out of the...”
– Brian Williams
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“I’ve learned a lot of things, made a lot of great mistakes. I learned in...”
– Julia Roberts, Elle - September 2010
“…To tell stories well
is to tell two at once: the story
and the regret; the...”
– Eliza Griswold (via beautifulordinaire)
lalalindsay:
Little Lion Man by Mumford and...
selective geography
This continent project has really taken a surprising amount of commitment to complete. This afternoon, I had to transfer money from my savings account to buy a pair of scissors and my medicated deodorant prescription from Walgreen’s.
Full disclosure: I was also trying to buy the September issues. I returned to the CVS closer to my house in order to purchase the scissors, because I had...
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Women Who Hit Harder
“When I started, all the top players thought the Grand Slams began in the quarterfinals, because the early rounds were so easy and we only had to give 50 percent to get through them,” Kim Clijsters, Belgium’s other tennis superstar, told me when we sat down to talk one day at Wimbledon. “Now I have to be at least 85 to 90 percent at my best from the beginning of a tournament. Venus and Serena...
Pursuit of Permanence in Siberia
I have recently become interested in the artists featured on Anthropologie’s virtual inspiration board, The Anthropologist, which strikes me as the older sister of Urban Outfitter’s lifestyle blog, another one of my favorite quick reads. Their newest feature happens to highlight several of my continual obsessions: circles, Siberia, and productive things to do with snow, other than...
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Nicki Minaj // Autobiography
It’s weird,...
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WatchNicki Minaj is just CAMP, and if their are any doubts about that, these scenes of her dressed as a samurai, geisha, and a ninja should really clear that up. This is the first time I’ve been protective about the music I like since my hipster high school days. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH.
Red House Painters - Michigan
I don’t need...
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“But the Kate Spade wedge heels are not just one candidate’s shoes. They seem to...”
– In Kate Spade wedges, blazing campaign trails - NYTimes.com
An interesting comment on our ability to take fashionable women seriously and the way our fashion choices effect the way we are perceived professionally. I think it’s important to talk about intelligently, because I practically got...
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kelsium:
I’ve totally posted this story before, but it is relevant in my life again because I was watching Little Women last night (the one with Winona Ryder, natch—which remains an excellent and enjoyable film even when it too wholeheartedly embraces the sentimentality of the book, which it does sometimes).
So a few months ago, Friend A and I were drinking and talking about novels of our...
Platelet Party
lalalindsay:
Eat loads of red meat for a few days? I can do that. Get lots of rest? I can also do that. Spend a handful of hours sitting in the cozy transfusion center at my beloved City of Hope watching movies and being wrapped up in warm blankets while nurses shoves heating packs down my shirt? Doesn’t sound too bad. Only being allowed to leave after they watch me eat a package of Oreos? YES. ...
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“The United States is a rich nation. To say that we cannot afford to do the...”
– Bob Herbert
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