March 2011
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“[Britney] Spears’ collaborators have used her records to serve up outrageous and...”
– Judy Rosen, Slate Magazine
This whole article was stolen from my soul. Its exactly what I have always thought about Britney Spears. She has released some straight up weird electronic songs: Toxic, Gimme More, even Hold it Against Me with its dubsteppish drop in the middle, and somehow they have all...
“Bad behavior makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of...”
– Marianne Faithfull
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“…it was known of her that she was exceptionally beautiful and the very image of...”
– Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina
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I’m going to go have sex a zillion times just to...
I realize that my indignation is quite over due, but I’ve done my best to avoid thinking about what today’s teenagers read instead of this or this or this or this. I’m sure you’ve all heard enough about the dead horse I’m about to beat, but I’ve been stewing about this for several hours and I need to let it out. Tonight I learned that the gross vampire fetus in...
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Whining congressman can't make it on his six...
lifeunfolding:
squee-gee:
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): I struggle to meet my bills right now… The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don’t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. They’re not nearly as good. Constituent: But $174,000 — that’s … three times what I make.
Holy crap! I didn’t realize that was Sean from the Real World:...
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on friends with benefits
thehighestheels replied to your photo: After attempting to do my taxes, I was sick of…
You forgot to give your opinion of friends-with-benefits situations. That’s essential in a review of this movie!
I avoided it purposely, because to be honest, I have a lot of feelings about being the dreaded friend with benefits. These relationships seem to rely on an understanding between the...
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“My college experience was really great. I wouldn’t change a thing. One night...”
– fartwithheadphoneson: Don’t listen to other people’s bullshit.
“you only have to look at the medusa straight on to see her. and she’s not...”
– Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
(via unamiaja)
“I can break it down to this one simple reason: it’s the inevitable trip to DMV...”
– HollyGoNightly: in which i get reacquainted with public transportation
I lost my driver’s license behind the wall of mailboxes in my new apartment, in what was somewhat of a freak accident. I spent hours in the middle of the night trying to pry the thin sheet of plastic from between the wall...
“As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the richest 10 percent of...”
– Bob Herbert, in his last column for the New York Times, entitled “Losing Our Way.”
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“Estée had this idea that there were no ugly women,” recalls Aerin Lauder, the...”
– NYTimes (via meredithbklyn)
Attractive or lazy? Two guesses as to which one I am.
“In a better world, there would be widely agreed upon standards and mechanisms...”
– Laurence Lewis, Of Noble Intentions in a Cruel World
I would argue that it’s a little biased to claim that it is universally just Republicans who are “so intrepidly attempting to level the field to the lowest common denominator,” but I still appreciate the larger point.
“On the one hand, some question why America should intervene at all – even in...”
– President Barack Obama, in his Presidential Address about Libyan involvement.
So many questions. Did he explain why we invade some countries that want to be free and not others, or did he just address it? Why we didn’t invade Sudan or Iran or Bahrain? Because they aren’t close enough to...
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“I’m really not. I have great moments when I feel very connected and loving...”
– Sean Penn, on whether or not he is a good person.
WatchJohn Oliver demonstrates how America’s “freedom packages” will turn any country’s civil war into a catastro-tunity.
Libya qualifies for the Platinum Package.
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Remembering Geraldine Ferraro
“I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.”
- Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro was, by nearly all accounts, an extremely complicated political figure. Although she was fervently supportive of women’s rights, her views about equal rights generally (she did not support school busing initiatives and often favored tax...
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the Declaration...”
– President-Elect Abraham Lincoln during a speech on February 22, 1861, ten days before taking the Oath of Office
I am reading this book about Lincoln’s assassination and the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath, because I found it on the floor of my brother’s room just a day after...
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“what can you do? time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you...”
– sloane crosley, how did you get this number — the last chapter of which is helpful for people who are prone to dating people who are dating people (via katylindy)
State of this union
kelsium:
Quite drunk still. Watching bad television now.
being an adult is okay sometimes
dudes, that was my birthday.
codexgigasi:
On my 24th birthday, one of my co-workers in his mid 40s told me that 24 is a great age. His response to my quizzical facial expression was that at the age of 24 you are old enough to hang out with the adults, but still young enough to consort with college kids. I was so stoked upon hearing this, the age of 24 finally made sense to me. Even though...
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“My dear, I have the most expensive luxury in the world, for I work to please...”
– Willa Cather, “Coming, Aphrodite!” (via anaees)
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“I’m not that interested in fashion. When someone says that lime green is the new...”
– Bruce Oldfield, English designer (via caryrandolph)
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If you’re me, you can have them for every meal…
thebronzemedal:
Hesitated about having tacos for lunch two days in a row, then realized I’m a fucking adult and can have tacos as many days in a row I want.
“Only a few months short of graduation I’ve run out of thoughts, out of the...”
– Walter Kirn, “Lost in the Meritocracy.” The Atlantic, January/February 2005
A great deal of my life has been an exercise in doing just enough work to minimally succeed, mainly by adapting to systems in order to manipulate them for my success. The loss of any sort of intellectual...
on efficacy
When I was a kid, apparently before the police or the FDA had figured out how people make all the different kinds of drugs, taking Sudafed was an actual relief for cold symptoms. If you were in high school and you took one more then the recommended dose, you could get dizzy enough to feel a little high for advisory. That is what is supposed to happen to you when you’re sick - you’re...
“Because I am a man and will never be pregnant myself or have that decision to...”
– Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: TX Republican Rep. Jeff Wentworth’s reasons for voting against TX sonogram bill (via informate)
“Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit; - not to be...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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WatchSometimes I wonder what I do with all my time and why I haven’t been able to read the entire collected works of Henry James like I thought I would be able to do when I was in undergrad, and then I realize what it is I do instead. I have spent the past three nights watching this video almost exclusively and dancing along to it. I don’t know if I’m improving because I live by...
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“Way down at No. 57, we find YouTube sensation Rebecca Black, who debuts with her...”
– DEATH AND MOCKERY: THE KEYS TO INTERNET SUCCESS (via maura)
Seemingly, this is disconcertingly true.
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“I think they had fights for the glory of making up. It was foreplay to them.”
– Actor Rod Taylor, on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 