February 2012
24 posts
“Something sounded familiar last week when I heard U.S. Education Secretary Arne...”
– “Who Really Benefits From Putting High-Tech Gadgets in Classrooms?” (via marathonpacks)
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doctordisaster replied to your post: Why sure, major publishing house client with… The nosebleed: first step on the path to ACTUAL LASER EYES?
Only time will tell, but oh man do I hope so.
“(Indeed some very strong impulses, such as the behaviour often exhibited by...”
– Uh …
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Why sure, major publishing house client with decades of experience in the field, please do feel free to modify the bookmap for these six volumes of meticulously leveled instruction we’ve been working on since September now that we’re nearly finished with the project. What’s that? My nose is bleeding? I don’t know, but it’s definitely not a rage stroke! No, I...
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
This. A thousand times.
(via blancateli)
Try dating in New York. (via youngmegadethite)
Fucking A right, both to what SFJ is saying and the dating in NY thing.
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"I'm just gonna put on some dungarees."
—your dad
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Errol Morris has been fascinated by champion... →
Errol Morris also admits to having “an affinity for chicken.”
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wishing I were a lady
so I could celebrate Galentine’s Day.
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here's a fun game
The next time you sex a girl named Emily, when you’re just getting started, point down to your boner and say, “Hey, check it out: I arose for Emily!”
Then lie perfectly still.
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meghanagain answered your question: I’m not even mad, or blaming anyone. I’m genuinely… Look, if you needed me to recite David Duchovny’s pre-2000 filmography, I could have done that for you at any point.
And yet!!!
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super-serious replied to your post: gråtrunka how did you even learn it?!
Self-taught! Oh, you mean how did I learn the word itself? Friend of a friend just got back from Sweden.
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gråtrunka
Just for future reference, this is the actual Swedish word for the act of crying while masturbating.
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what have I become,
my Swedish friend?
Everyone I know,
goes Norway,
Finn. The end.
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I think the first parade
I’ll be able to catch will be Hermes, and Orpheus will be the final. (Bummed that I won’t make it to Zulu, but flights out that afternoon were prohibitively expensive.)
Attn NOLA: I will be up inside you soon.
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FLUXBLOG 2002 SURVEY MIX →
perpetua:
I am celebrating the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog with a series of survey mixes for each year the site has existed. First up: 2002! 140 songs on 8 discs, with music from Missy Elliot, Kylie Minogue, Wilco, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Cam’ron, The Kills, The Rapture, Cee Lo Green, Coldplay, Ashanti, Andrew W.K., Sleater-Kinney, Clinic, Sonic Youth, Justin Timberlake, Christina...
January 2012
95 posts
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I know I let you down, but at least give me a chance to make up for it.
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via ederlezi)
“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in...”
– Michel Foucault (via hiredgoons)
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“I started to carry chalk around with me. I ride my bike a lot, so, I’d ride my...”
– Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old college student who gave up his cellphone, email and social media for 90 days. He says that, among other things, the experiment taught him that some people he thought were close friends really weren’t that close after all, and he thinks it helped him get back together with...
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Reblog With Your Most Hated Cliché Phrases So That...
hiredgoons:
6h057:
From a little known town called New York City
“…like the one on TV.”
That which does not kill me …
Biblical cats
shitmystudentswrite:
In Egypt, cats used to be seen as the symbolic and sacred animal. However scholars who have read and analyse the Bible claim there is never a mention of cats throughout.
Reason I’m not Christian #41358: No mention of cats in the Bible.
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in... →
dyfl:
I’m really, really glad that the Times is writing this series about manufacturing conditions in China; it’s one of the most significant human-rights stories in the world, and it’s one of those things Americans truly do not like thinking about. I know I generally don’t, but a part of me is glad to have it rubbed in my face.
I sort of worry that the focus on Apple is counter-productive —...
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karenwilson replied to your post: god why can’t Downton just be on now! Is your Tumblr becoming a Downton Abbey/Bates tribute blog?
Maybe!
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The Unlikely Cult of Mr.Bates →
bbook:
chiaraatik:
-London Evening Standard
(“Misteh Behhhhts”)
I mean, obviously the number one choice is Matthew Crawley in his dress reds but Misteh Behhhhts is still my favorite Beatrix Potter character.
Unlikely? UNLIKELY?!?!?!
god why can’t Downton just be on now!
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Sure, Mitch.
Obama’s the divisive one.
I can’t stop watching PBS now!
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David Brooks
wants to be a Dem so hard!
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and ...
pan ouuuuuuuuuuut.
I admit I'm only half-paying attention,
but it sounds like Mitch Daniels is re-advocating everything Obama said on behalf of all Republicans.
It's not even that I hate David Brooks.
I find him perfectly amiable. I just wish he would shut up.