January 2012
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
December 2011
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Matt's Brick Gallery: Email submission...... →
mattsbrickgallery:
I wanted to put this in your ask box but I can’t send links. RE: Girly LEGO. http://friends.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx should really be all you need to see to realize how terribad it is. But this image (provided by LEGO) shows how bad it’s always been:…
actually i want to vomit. why can’t we imagine little girls playing with the “normal” lego sets?...
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I Love Charts: Conclusion →
ilovecharts:
Yesterday we posted a chart to which some people took offense. One person took the time to write us directly with her anger about the chart. I took exception to her tone and disagreed with her assertions and regrettably fell into one of the more simple traps of poor communication, writing a …
new goal for 2012: be open to dialogue and other people’s humanity.
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they sell LOTR pez dispensers
and i stand at my register all day rereading the little descriptions of each of the main characters.
i really want to watch LOTR now. all of them. in one sitting.
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I Like Your Flaws
Dec. 20, 2011
By Stephanie Georgopulos
I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them. I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you.
When you sleep on your side,...
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Wisdom on Tattoos, Humor, and Majors
me: I need a new way of differentiating "favorites" now that your twin is home [she was abroad]
little: as for differentiating, you're on your won for coming up with that one
me: Shit. i'm as awful at metaphors as Newt Gingrich is a filing election paperwork
me: Because that was a simile.
little: I'm glad you're not an English major
me: and thank The Flying Spaghetti Monster I'm also not a religion major.
little: well, you can thank King Charles II of Spain that I'm not a History major
me: this is me being funny
me: good god, my poor husband will have to spend the rest of his life with stupid jokes form me. I should come with a warning label about that too
little: If you silk screen a shirt with a warning you should be set
me: but then I'll have to create a concise list of warnings
little: Meh, better as a tattoo?
me: that's a hard one to reconcile with at 50
little: get it with UV ink, only visible at frat parties and Chuck E. Cheese
me: so classy
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Dear Alabama,
Please, please, make all of my dreams of the country, music, sunshine, fresh air, good ol’ boys, simplicity, finding faith, hope, and love, come true.
i’m really hoping for a change and some meaning and bringing some of that to my students.
Let me find my home away from home. I know it’s not till august, but I’ve got to hope for something.
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Kyoko has a blog: Lessons Learned: 2011 →
brain-food:
Make your own adventure: Regardless of how trivial it is. Make an adventure out of it. Create a treasure map to the grocery store, make up a whole different identify for yourself at Starbucks, speak with a different accent for an entire day. Doesn’t matter what it is, just make it an adventure….
The Curbside Prophet: SOPA Emergency IP list →
themoonislovelytonight:
burt-reynolds-xmas-special:
kshandra:
underwatermess:
So when these assfucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 #…
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“Jingle Bells, Twilight Smells, Edward ran away
Bella dies, Jacob cries,
POTTER...”
– (via yeahwriters)
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“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via girlwithoutwings)
“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a...”
– Abbey Lee Kershaw (via light-essence)
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#shitmydadsays
dad: okay, i'm going to go upstairs to go fornicate with your mother
me: *shudder*
me: i'll put my head phones in
dad proceeds to make noise as he rustles around and bangs on doors upstairs
me: you sound like your wrestling an alligator.
this is normal.
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my brother on politics
while i couldn’t get him to support Obama (it’ll happen when hell freezes over, and this is why we don’t talk politics in my house), i at least got him to realize that he should not vote on party lines (he is a republican, but has jsut realized that he is not a conservative) because the current republican candidates suck (dear santa, i want new, sane, tolerant candidates).
he is...
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WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK SIG EPs? →
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A University of Vermont fraternity has been suspended while officials investigate allegations that it circulated a survey that asked members who they would like to rape.
seriously? this really happened?
shame on you.
so angry right now that i can’t form a well articulated response.
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1.5 more pages wil freedom
anyone want to proofread it for me?
womp.
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Aragorn: If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
Legolas: And you have my bow.
Gimli: And *my* axe.
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose...”
– Don DeLillo | Point Omega (via blogut)
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“If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among...”
– Rick Santorum, pledging to significantly reduce federal funding for food stamps, arguing that the nation’s increasing obesity rates render the program unnecessary (via sleeplessinsouthie)
eclecticspectrum: *blank stare*
(via eclecticspectrum)
If food stamps worked at Trader Joes and Whole Foods...
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Led by the child who simply knew: The twin boys... →
seriouslyamerica:
When fifth grade started, Wyatt was gone. Nicole showed up for school, sometimes wearing a dress and sporting shoulder-length hair. She began using the girls’ bathroom. Nikki’s friends didn’t have a problem with the transformation; there were playdates and sleepovers.
“They said, ‘It was about time!’ ’’ Nicole says. She was elected vice president of her class and excelled...
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College student, put down the text book and read... →
I’ve been there.
Books piled up in a stack beside you. Nodding off to the glow of the computer screen. Neon strips of highlighter scraped across your forehead, leftover not from a raging highlighter party the night before but rather the all-nighter spent spooning Shakespeare term papers and mind-rattling interpretations of Samuel Beckett’s best works.
Some of you are halfway. Knees sunk deep...
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cute boys being cute.
I work at the craft center at my university.
best job ever for minimum wage. I craft for 5 hours and causally ensure that no one’s projects explode.
even better is when you get kids that come in regularly to work on assignments for classes, work on gifts/ hobbies or to procrastinate (this is how i started working here; i was one of the regulars…go figure)
one of my freshman regulars...
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