May 2013
2 posts
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April 2013
5 posts
“Rep. Bill Foster’s office is bright blue, almost electric, almost blinding....”
– - Monica Hesse for the Washington Post (via carbonfilament)
ETC is cool? I had no idea.
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March 2013
8 posts
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“A fashion show typically lasts about 10 minutes, and that’s just enough time to...”
– Cathy Horyn (via unculturedmag)
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Diamonds are bullshit →
I gave up my rant about diamonds years ago because all it did was alienate people I love, but this is really great.
February 2013
8 posts
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
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I wish I could get this brain space back and give...
Today I recognized that the paparazzi on the runway were taking pictures of two fashion photographers (and I can tell you their names if you’d really like to know) (one of them immediately inspires the desire to take a shower to get off the possible slime. The other seems quite sweet.) and then I recognized the president of IMG walk past. The dude who is managing the entire shindig had no...
“Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s nothing....”
– Ed Koch.
January 2013
7 posts
SHARK TRACKER →
something is awesome in south africa.
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listen to this, it’s nice.
December 2012
6 posts
“Ever since the Christmas of ‘53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell...”
– Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via ismycopilot)
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie, From An Autobiography (via liquidnight)
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Someone Help Me Out
sarahb:
debbiecountry:
“you’re doing it wrong”
when people start a sentence with “that moment when”
WHERE ARE THESE THINGS FROM? Is this from a television show everyone but me is watching? Also, is there anything more condescending than “if you’re not _____, you’re doing it wrong”? Even in the lexicon of smuggy nerd condescending things to say to people, this is truly the worst. How about:
...
November 2012
9 posts
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Things no one tells you.
You will become the sort of person who writes long notes in sympathy cards, because you found so much comfort in the ones you got -
and you will remember watching your mom read these long letters and look up and say “well I never would have expected this/read this part/You’ll never believe who sent this/it’s just so … it’s just so nice/isn’t this beautiful? I...
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Did you reserve a room for the NYC marathon?... →
gnomesweetgnome:
sotheresthat:
This is great, I love this.
This is awesome
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I live and work above the line so not a lot seems...
October 2012
14 posts
In which we discover a new household motto
Emily: Did you know there's a Polish phrase that means, "Not my Problem," but literally translates to "Not my circus, not my monkeys?"
Me: We are going to start using that in English.
“To repeat Octavia Butler response after winning her MacArthur: I’m no genius....”
– Omnivoracious: National Book Award Nominee Junot Díaz on Winning a MacArthur Genius Grant, the Joy in Writing, and “This Is How You Lose Her” (via peterwknox) 