May 2012
46 posts
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/garden/how-to-tel... →
sarahb:
fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:
Too vulgar for the New York Times. Fuck that.
How timely, New York Times!
I put this NYT article on a table in my bathroom.
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YA Q: XX vs. XY?
I’m currently involved in a heated discussion on someone else’s Facebook wall about this absolutely silly comment-bait essay from a few months back in the NYT entitled “Adults Should Read Adult Books.” What I’ve come to believe is true while structuring my own argument: books written from the POV of teenage male characters are capable of being considered adult...
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Fezzie Weather
I think all of this rave crap is coming out because we are soon going to a “fezzie,” as J would call it. We are assembling camping gear and sunscreen and hot weather outfits and I’m even going to make a flag to mark our tent saying “GET ORFF MOY LAAND” that will probably be stolen by end-of-day Sunday.
When I was sixteen and reading The Face and inscribing my name in...
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P.S.
And can I add to this conversation for a moment that I think Stephenie Meyer and related Shady Grey Ladies are actually rewriting the princess myth to INCLUDE being treated like shit?
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Yul Brynner Fetish Blog
I visited Michael Stipe’s Tumblr for the first time just now and for a brief moment not all of the posts were loading and it made it look as if Michael Stipe had a Yul Brynner fetish blog (naked Yul! lots of naked Yul!) and so for that very brief moment Michael Stipe became a very peculiar man to me and I didn’t know what to do with those feelings except to picture Yul Brynner...
On Loveless [Remastered]
whatafoolbelieves:
It’s a subtle touch—one you feel as the album swells. You notice sounds being fresher than before, as if the tapes were cleaned like an archaeologist brushing bones—only the find’s not bones but vibrant, undulating flesh. Each syllable of guitar growl is heard, the whirling layers above and the swirling layers below more defined. The vocals, though still blurred, are no...
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Can we stop leaving civil rights issues up to...
At the same time, how terrifying would it be if we had to watch helplessly as a politician took away our civil rights, and there was nothing we could do? Are our votes for politicians enough to scare him or her into doing the right thing, or do they have to know how we feel about each issue? I don’t think I understand enough of how it works to know the best solution, I just want to make it...
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“Welcome to month of May, that of many things is also month of Eurovision! You...”
– Three Percent: The Contest of the Eurovision Begins [FuckyeahEurovision!]
Janis Stirna introduces the world to Eurovision at Three Percent in exactly what my Latvian friends sound like when they speak English. Or, what all the Eurovision lyrics sound like when done in English, as evidenced by my...
“Because of their fondness for bathing, captive American minks may enter kettles...”
– American mink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We recently discovered that there’s a mink who lives in our creek. We have yet to find him in our tea kettle, but we have installed a dedicated Chipmunk Habitat Early Warning System (CHEWS for short, the loud little buggers) to notify us of his...
Watchmeghanagain:
Last week I went to lunch with three of my coworkers. We went to a tapas place located two blocks from our office. This place is a good place, and new to our lunch hour rotation. It is not very hard to find a good place to eat in our neighborhood, actually it is a pretty great neighborhood for eating, but I have worked here for nearly five years and so have grown tired of the usual...
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the list of 33 1/3 submissions in the order they... →
What, no Warren Zevon?
WHOOPS.
I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was re-read my book proposal. I was thinking, hey, this really isn’t so bad, until I got to the part where, through the omission of a negative modifier, I accidentally assured them that Cameron Crowe had promised his involvement.
(Also, I’ve since discovered another 33 1/3 title so similar in nature to mine that I think its...
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So as it turns out, a book proposal CAN be written...
It might not be a very good one, but it can be done.
April 2012
28 posts
33 1/3 deadline tonight. →
O CURSE THE WORLD THAT ONLY LET ME ONLY FIND OUT ABOUT THIS OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TODAY, THE DAY OF THE DEADLINE.
I have an idea for a book for this series. A REALLY GREAT IDEA. Would it be possible to write a 2,000 word intro by midnight? Collect competition reports? WOULD IT?
It’s the best idea. It really is. GRRRRRRRRR. Can I do this?