December 2011
if-youre-feeling-sinister:
The Dismemberment...
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2011 Year in Review
The Only Year End List I Care About Is The One About My Own Life:
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
Bikram yoga, and it is awesome.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
n/a
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nobody who is currently close to me, no. Just old high school friends, and the only reason I know about it is...
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The Rolling Stones - “Happy”
"If you had to name two things that North Korea...
That is an actual thing that the anchor on CNN just said. The sound on the tv at our gate is so loud that it is unavoidable. “It’s like we’re being held hostage by cable news,” S. said before going on a search for the best french fries in terminal D.
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I posted this before going to bed last night at 2am:
and woke up to see that Big Boi had posted this:
WHY AM I NOT ONE OF THOSE WHITE PEOPLE
This NYT article about an autistic young man is... →
Tonight I met S.’s autistic half brother. He’s 9, obsessed with bowling, and can recite pi out to 40 digits forwards and backwards. I really hope that he has resources like the ones described in the article available to him as he gets older.
His other half brother is 7 and absolutely loves playing baseball video games. I think I impressed him with my knowledge of the Phillies;...
Is it normal for a silver(?) ring to clean itself of tarnish after being worn a few times or did I find a magic ring in my mom’s pile of jewelry?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Future Islands (44)
Kate Bush (35)
Pixies (18)
My Robot Friend (17)
DJ Shadow (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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speaking of white people:
There have been a few burglaries on my parents’ normally quiet street and in the surrounding neighborhoods in the past few weeks. One of their neighbors is a police officer and his wife just sent email to people in the neighborhood with an “update” on the situation. Two young men were just arrested for burglaries nearby, but it hasn’t been confirmed that they are connected...
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Perhaps the most unsettling part of this whole thing is that the lyrics to “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry really just like, speak to me, you know?
I am in a super bummer mood because I tried to go to a hot yoga class at my mom’s super-suburban mega gym tonight and the instructor never showed up. And it’s been raining for like two days straight and the only physical activity I’ve had since coming here was walking up the Broad Street hill from the Secret Squirrel to the Grill last night at 1am, which was promptly ruined by...
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everyone does everything because of cats
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While going through jewelry, my sister and I also claimed some heirlooms that we wanted. We both fell in love with the same thin gold ring and were arguing over who should get it.
“I’ll keep it, and when one of you dies I’ll give it to the other one,” said my mom.
I let my sister have it.
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My mom, sister, and I were just sorting through some old jewelry so that we could help my mom decide what to take to sell at her school tomorrow (one of those cash for gold fundraiser things, I guess). I found a small gold butterfly ring that I was given for my bat mitzvah and offered it up to my mom because it’s really not my style.
“Maybe you should keep it for your daughter,...
on the phone with my grandparents
me: No, he's not Jewish.
Grandma: (more to my grandfather than to me, I think, but also under her breath, and who ever knows with her) Well, that doesn't surprise me.
last night involved:
latkes
brothers singing drum parts to each other
a fratbro bar with a portable stripper pole and a gogo dancer with a sparkly bra
an Incubus cover band
Upon our entry into his car yesterday afternoon, the cab driver immediately put on a dance track whose lyrics mostly consisted of “ass” and “bitch.” (I realize that not knowing what song this was makes me sound so old, and four years ago I would have been able to identify the song after the very first “ass” but that’s just what getting old is like, I...
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I may have to hand in my feminism card because I am baking brownies for a friends’ touring band at my boyfriend’s request, while he has dinner and catches up with one of those friends. (To be fair, I did volunteer to bake alone while he and his friend are hanging out because I have no interest in crashing bro time and also when I say “friends” I mean that they are far more...
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"This creates enough push and pull between their... →
AND AWESOME
how many followers am I going to lose if I only ever post about The Vampire Diaries and Bikram yoga and grad school?
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I’m processing evaluations at work, and I don’t understand why the people with the worst handwriting are also the ones who write the most.
Malcolm Gladwell's advice for young journalists:... →
oldmanasante:
farhad:
From a Time Q&A:
Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get...
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thoughts on my Astroenter.com horoscope for...
Social events might take up a lot of your time today, Bethany. Don’t be surprised if you meet more than one person who is in an academic field, or who comes from far away, or both. Expect a lot of fascinating discussions! You might also spend some time running, biking, or otherwise exercising in the company of a friend, as fitness is on your mind now. Take care not to overdo it, and enjoy...
"Before he endorsed former Gov. Rick Perry of... →
“You know, that one guy.” - The New York Times