November 2008
3 tags
can't it be both?
yoga teacher: Meaggers, are you sick or did you just go out with the gays last night?
Rainy days wouldn’t be so depressing if the hasids didn’t have shower caps on over their top hats.
“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be...”
– nabokov on freud (via This Recording)
“A certain kind of Midwesterner comes east to be completed. Just as a certain...”
– Jonathan Franzen
me: How many students did you fail this semester?
chris: I'm not sure yet, I haven't finished my grades.
me: No, I mean, how many students did you fail, as a teacher?
“We’re not celebrating because we killed the Indians, darling,”...”
– Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto”
hipsterdiet:
Jolie Holland - Amen
Happy...
Love in the Time of Darwinism →
syntheticpubes:
Girl Power backlash, avoiding marriage, etc. Worth reading, but here’s a summary if you don’t: “Young men [who are sometimes imbeciles to begin with] face a bewildering multiplicity of female expectations and desire.” (via Beyond Porno)
“The woman may be hoping for a hookup, but she may also be looking for a husband, a co-parent, a sperm donor, a relationship, a threesome,...
whileyouwereout:
The Afghan Whigs - Moon River.
How socially acceptable is it, on a scale of 1 to Pocketnovel, to bring your laundry to someone’s parent’s house for Thanksgiving?
I say A-ok because it’s an old college friend and his mom likes me more than my own mother does, but I don’t know. Maybe this isn’t college anymore and I should just fucking pull myself together enough to march over to the laundromat and...
Tonight Halle and I had some drinks at the watering hole down the block from me and very near and dear to my heart, Connie O’s. It’s the kind of place where they let you smoke inside and have christmas light up all year and the bartendress has a scrunchie and a red leather vest.
Tonight we were surrounded by drunk old white people watching Dancing With the Stars. They asked me what I...
you got me.
me: So I became a vegetarian.
Bobby: Why? Because you're super fat?
me: No.
Bobby: Oh, because boys like it?
marco(.org) on job interviews →
“There’s always another good opportunity for you to take. Maybe you don’t see it today and it’ll show up next week. But if you accept this job, you will miss tons of great opportunities during the time you’re working there, whether you know it or not.”
This has a very high FUCK YEAH fist pump factor. There was a period of time (let’s call it…my early 20s) where every...
Split Like an Infinitive
We could’ve been like Strunk and White, only with advice on where to get brunch instead of tips on grammar and clarity.
(via dearoldlove)
“She had a butt like a bad B-movie and a chainsaw smile that cut him right in...”
– Planet of the Damned (via reversecowgirl) (via luminol)
Ohmygod. Bob Schneider. I hit on him once, really hardcore shamelessly. Something about tittyfucking and did he like my saddle oxfords (he did).
“I’m just another pizza delivery girl
Without a pizza, a raconteur with nothing...”
– Stable-Self Blues, Joanna Fuhrman
You know how some people touch their window pane to see how cold it is? I just sit in my room and I know how cold it is.
It is very cold.
sleepanddream:
crushes:
s,
every saturday i pass by the place where you work. although i won’t allow myself to go inside, i look through the window - just to see you there. knowing you’re safe keeps me going for the week.
— anonymous
Okay, that is creepy as hell, but it reminds me of a good story.
I was once in love with this man who just so happened to work as a doorman at a hotel in my...
today's lesson in social graces is made possible...
It’s like you can see it in people, first they say, “You look great!” Okay, fine. I accept that. Smile back, say, “oh, thanks…,” shrug a little, try to quickly zoom past the subject and ask about the rat pelvis necklaces they are peddling. But no, that’s not enough for them. “NO SERIOUSLY, you look great.” Nod graciously, wonder when this will...
26. If after offering to fix your busted Wordpress...
amiflirting:
Besides, the better her blog works, the more opportunity you have to idly email her about what she writes, like every post were the most important thing on earth, that only you understand, and what a mad world it is that brought you together, despite distance and botched-up plugins, to enjoy that.
Go for it. Fixing her blog isn’t the new hanging her shelves (or his drapes, or etc....
“In my head, I pronounce LMAO as LAME-O.”
– Bobby, rofl-ingly
:(
i told my super it was fine, don’t worry about the heat, i have gloves with the fingers cut out of them so i can still do my work.
not unlike when she comes home from work to find...
I almost feel ashamed every time I edge past my roommate to grab instant oatmeal while she is baking a pie. Almost.
“I seriously believe that the Internet is essentially a giant ad campaign for...”
– Crazy on You
i am sort of an unhinged emailer in my...
to: bailout@sixapart.com
I was going to move his site to Wordpress but then I heard about this bailout business through Tumblr (MY superior blogging platform which indeed does not pay my bills, but then again I’ve never asked…) and we are both intrigued. His question is, “Is Typepad as life-changing and user-friendly as Wordpress?” My first reaction was, “No,”...
“I don’t know where the “age divided by 2, plus 7” rule came from, but I’m going...”
– Jay Hathaway (via melissa)
Further reflections:
seankeane:
When I was at Berkeley, I was often accused of having an Asian fetish. But I’m 5’7” and pretty geeky. I like short girls who read lots of books regardless of ethnicity; Asian girls simply dominated that demographic where I lived. So I’m not a sexual imperialist; I’m just elitist and height-ist.
Interesting.
nickdouglas:
“Bruises” by Chairlift. It’s that...
me: i feel like i am always competing with asian girls. i think we must share a constituency. maybe it's a height thing?
jay: no. it's a geek thing.
me: ah. there it is.
an appeal to the base. →
youngmanhattanite:
NYPress on the End of the Knitting Factory. Questions remain: Will 92YTribeca fill the void?? (Don’t answer that just yet.)
HA, GETTTTTT REEEEEAL.
omg why do i love skinny guys its like the closer you are to disappearing the closer you are to my pussy
“This is my favorite thing about Creative Commons: the act of creation becomes...”
– Jonathan Coulton
I heard two voices in my head, talking to me as I stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room: my own voice saying This is bad for you and a man’s voice saying Do what I say. I narrowed my eyes, trying to hear which was right, and I could picture myself as Tod saw me, looking intense and tempted. This is a beautiful boy said another voice, a voice that wished me ill, who...