February 2011
18 posts
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I was reading about Jamestown
and feeling really sad about how we treated the Indians, to the point of crying, and then I got nostalgic so I watched Disney’s Pocahontas, and then I remembered this dude:
Wiggins!!! Now I can’t stop laughing. Disney saves the day yet again! He was supposed to be gay for Governor Radcliffe, right?
January 2011
22 posts
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/world-war-ii-hero-... →
“Move it, you old fossil!” 32-year-old Brian Forsythe yelled at the man who charged into enemy fire to take out a machine-gun nest during the Allied invasion of Italy and was driving 65 miles an hour. “Get out of the fucking left lane!”
In high school when I was upset I had few outlets available. All I could do was cry, draw pictures of myself as a centaur, listen to Little Earthquakes, and eat entire containers of angel food cake. Of course I was miserable and repressed. This is no way to properly self-destruct.
Suddenly, when you are a young adult, during that liminal space between supervision and responsibility, you discover...
oh, you wanted to use your car?
Sorry.
hope I don't need to use the fire escape
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snow coping mechanisms - #1
Have a personal mantra to repeat while battling slippery sidewalks. Mine is:
“She loved winter, snow, and ice.” From Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmens. I actually stopped at a bookstore yesterday to photograph it.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via girlwithoutwings)
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I can't handle my attraction to Jeremy Renner.
the snow
has given me a new understanding of the verb “trudge.”
why of course
I fainted after today’s pelvic exam, as I do every year.
I wish it was still in vogue for women to have fainting spells. I hate having to pretend I’m tough and strong. I’m not. I require people (of either gender) to help me lift and carry things, hold particularly heavy doors open, accompany me across the street, and generally treat me gingerly. I also prefer my partners to...
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best line from tonight's SVU
“Prison nurseries don’t have toys.” - Benson
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The most vexing conundrum of our time:
that Jane Lynch continues to wear big sparkly princess ball gowns to awards shows, instead of nice, dignified menswear ensembles.
If I were her wife, none of this would have happened.
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Wintery Mix
Boston’s forecast for Tuesday is “Wintery Mix.” This sounds like a snack involving peppermint bits and marshmallows. Or another way of describing Tori Amos’ Christmas album. In reality, a wintery mix means some sort of grotesque, messy amalgamation of hail, rain, snow, sleet, slush, and ice - presumably with gusts of wind to deposit such elements all over one’s face,...