May 2012
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I don't try to present and idealized view of my...
I don’t know what started all of this confessing, but I do know this - the view of my life, as presented on this blog, is far from perfect. It’s probably less perfect than my life actually is.
This is an actual post that I posted this weekend. It involves me talking to a dog (not even my dog!) - confessing, if you will - about my drinking problem. So if you’re looking for...
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The Atlantic: Atlantic Media Fellowship →
I just got a job, but this looks like an amazing one.
theatlantic:
Hey, you: @TheAtlantic is looking for a social-media / multimedia intern for 2012-13! Have you handled Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook for an organization before? Do you love Vimeo? Do you have killer email skills? Please send us your resume and a cover note at video@theatlantic.com. We’d also love…
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What we talk about when we don't talk about race.
This morning I slid down a hill underneath a railroad bridge on my butt to get home in time to take a 3-minute shower before work. I haven’t been home in two days. And this morning, upon my triumphant return to work, my strategy of feeding myself solely with leftover food from meetings that is put out in the community kitchen at work let me down for the first time in nearly a week.
While...
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I’d...”
– Cheryl Strayed, Wild (via mllehazelwood)
All right fine, I’ll read this book.
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“Your aunt drinks too much.”
– There are things that I say to my roommate’s dog that I fear I am going to continue to say to young humans in my life for a very long time.
“I love words…they’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion. Words are all...”
– George Carlin, in his 40-year-old routine, “7 Dirty Words,” off 1972’s Class Clown (via austinkleon)
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“Female bosses are less likely to make jokes in the boardrood because they are...”
– Female bosses ‘less funny in the boardroom’ - Telegraph (via Findings.com)
Fuck you and all your [lack of] noise, “a study.”
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“I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life...”
– John Scalzi at Jezebel - Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
Why do straight white men recoil so at the concept of privilege? Isn’t it really a nice thing for them? I’ve always been confused by this.
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The abortion that Mitt doesn’t talk about anymore. →
Justin Elliott at Salon.com reports that Mitt Romney has previously expressed an impassioned and personal reason for refusing to support criminalizing abortion. In a 1994 debate against Ted Kennedy for a Massachusetts Senate seat, Mitt Romney admitted that his stance on Roe v. Wade and the legality of abortion was shaped predominantly by the death of one of his young relatives, who died from...
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“But Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers...”
– Ann Lamott, at Salon.com, via haygirlhay
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Wedding Season
Today, in which I demonstrate that my cold heart will never be thawed by the expensive promise of eternal love:
When I moved into my first apartment, I was a twenty-two year old AmeriCorps member who had lived in dorms all through college. I had no furniture, no kitchen supplies, and certainly no serving platters, and you expected me to buy my own blender, America.
You’ve been living on...
WSJ: 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't... →
mllehazelwood:
Charles Wheelan writes:
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
Oh. This is what I needed to hear, especially because my life seems to have no straight path.
Charles Wheelan also writes:
Your time in fraternity basements was well spent. The same goes for the time...
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“I tell my story because it’s not an extraordinary one.”
– Lizz Winstead on the Rachel Maddow Show tonight.
That is exactly why I keep telling my story.
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“I find it truly offensive.”
– John Waters on iceberg lettuce (via sixtyforty)
A few weeks back, I passed up his book and I probably made a mistake.
(via fatmanatee)
If I had more time to do important things, I’d start a list of all the things on which John Waters and I agree.
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“Because none of my actions — and maybe this is speaking to my age, because...”
– Lena Dunham on Fresh Air
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This is one of the top five laziest nights of my...
These are legitimate thoughts I’ve recently had.
I wish someone would start a tumblr aggregating all of the best gifs from the “What Should We Call Me” tumblr because I am lazy and some of them are quite applicable and on point but probably not the whole thing? It’s overwhelming. Could you just read them for me and direct me to the ones I should see while I watch...
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““That bitch is crazy.”
We’ve seen Snooki pee her pants,...”
– What are you doing today? Because I’m Googling “Tan Mom” and “Snooki” and receiving fabulous results.
Her mind is our mind.
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kelsium:
I think I’ll just start responding to everyone ever with, “Congratulations.” Congratulations on your life. Congratulations, you have an opinion on the Internet. Congratulations, you thought you could make it through that light. Congratulations, you have a penis. Congratulations, you use a diva cup. Congratulations, you’re better than everyone. Congratulations.
“(Cook) remembered how on Sundays Obama would lounge around, drinking coffee and...”
– Genevieve Cook remembers dating young Barack Obama in a Vanity Fair excerpt of David Maraniss’ Becoming Obama.
16 Revelations About Young Barack Obama From His Ex-Girlfriends
More at Vanity Fair.
There are few things I read about Obama that do not make me feel overwhelmed that a man like...
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What Pizza Hut's Crown Crust Pizza Says About... →
Here is how the world feels about our disgusting American fast food “cuisine.”
It’s actually pretty similar to the way ethnic cuisine is marketed to the U.S., Hudson tells The Salt. She calls it “the China Buffet Effect,” after those all-you-can-eat establishments where Americans pile lo mein and Kung Pao chicken next to crab Rangoon and fortune cookies, without...
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“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin
