February 2012
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December 2011
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“She is either very pretty or downright beautiful, depending on your point of...”
– From Daphne Merkin’s profile of Tory Burch in last week’s NYT T Style magazine, which I’ve just now gotten around to reading (it’s the one with the bizarrely photoshopped picture of Viggo on the front where he looks like a 13 year old sk8r boy). So there are a lot of problems...
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November 2011
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“What we see in many places is that while you can bring crime down by occupying...”
– David M. Kennedy, on programs that target specific geographic areas through car and pedestrian stops in order to stop crime. (via nprfreshair)
Listening to this ep of Fresh Air, seems interesting for people who have never seen The Wire. J/K! It’s actually an interesting alternative to that...
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mike: also I've reached a conclusion that season 5 of the wire is really good if you view it as absurdist comedy
me: tell me more about the wire, i like that theory
mike: basically i realized how absolutely hilarious the whole bit is with the fake serial killer
especially the mcnulty/templeton interactions
buñuel would be proud
October 2011
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This is a Ryan Adams appreciation blog,...
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"it is particularly contemptuous to ask the... →
artsorbit:
The steps that some major touring acts—including the Foo Fighters, Ke$ha, and Janet Jackson—have taken to control and own photojournalists’ work at their concerts have become so controversial that over the past several weeks I’ve felt compelled to blog about the subject not just once,…
Badass letter from the director of the AIGA, the professional association for design....
Zurana Horton Killed by Gunman in front of... →
Wow, this is really fucked up. And how did I have to hear about it from Feministe (nothing against them, it’s just not usually where I get my news).
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Re/Dress NYC will be closing our doors in... →
How did I just find out about this?! This is why I shouldn’t take tumblr hiatuses. I’m super, super bummed about this. I just wore my favorite Re/Dress purchase on Tuesday, too.
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Eddie Vedder is the sexiest.
thecranium:
Thank you for this public service gif. I feel 13 again.
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nanner:
scattered-purple-swans replied to your post: elleeldritch replied to your post: Two tank tops,…
How do returns work if something doesn’t fit?
With the women’s plus stuff, they send you a prepaid shipping label with your package.
With the regular stuff, you fill out the form and then pay for the shipper of your choice to return it. I think with the straight sizes you can return them...
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“I feel I’m qualified to work on black shows because, in a sense, I feel I’m...”
– Oh Norman, just stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.
I’m reading Norman Lear’s 1976 Playboy interview at the Minneapolis Public Library. Should I be concerned about reading the public library’s Playboys? I had to surrender my ID to obtain them.
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I hate this commercial with the fire of a thousand... →
Sometimes I feel like Shakesville is the blog equivalent of Mother Jones: I want to like it, and they do good work, but ultimately it is just too exhausting. I’ll invest my political energy elsewhere. However, after being bombarded with this fucking awful at&t commercial (“I should have married John Clark…”) like 10 times during an afternoon of football, this rant...
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“Nobody tells you about raising daughters. You think it’s going to be like Little...”
– Apparently Lady Cora missed the part of Little Women where Amy is horrible? And Mary and Edith are definitely more Amy than anything else. Sybil? Clearly a Jo.
(Thank you, Saturday morning kitchen puttering and Downton Abbey on Netflix instant!)
Just saw my first CHRISTMAS commercial of the...
historicalupstart:
Fuck you, Avon.
I was reading through tumblr while ffw-ing through the Top Chef: Just Desserts commercials…and saw it too. Only through the fast forwarding though. WTF!
I got this email “from Chelsea Clinton” with the subject line “my father” tonight, and I have to tell you my first reaction was, “oh, shit, Bill Clinton died?!”
Nope, just asking for money. Phew.
Yes, I did come out of a 5-month blog hiatus to...
But COME ON, it’s so adorable it brings a tear to my eye. Just one, though, I’m not an insane person.
[Sidebar: which is a more vomit-worthy word for a concept that is one of the best things humans ever invented: snuggling, or cuddling?]
May 2011
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Oh, come the fuck on. →
“House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) says no aid for Joplin without cuts.” I am surprised to find that I have, apparently, retained the ability to be surprised by how low these fuckers will go.
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The debate about renaming Lake Calhoun →
If we’re so concerned about not having a lake named after an advocate of slavery (which I have mentioned as bizarre to friends in passing before), how are suggestions that we go back to the lake’s original Dakota name - Mde Maka Ska - so absent from this conversation? Similarly, why are we not having a more serious conversation about renaming Sibley High School/Street, Ramsey...
I would have seen it a lot sooner.
How come nobody told me Bridesmaids was about class warfare?
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If last night's dinner were a children's book
It would be called The Berenstain Bears and too Much Organ Meat.
HOW DID I NEVER MAKE THE CONNECTION THAT DENNIS...
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thegoddessfoo:
I am an idiot for not noticing this shit. I just never paid that much attention to it.
MY MIND IS BLOWN
Apparently y’all never watched Oz. Ryan O’Reily forever. Only not really because he was…well, kind of a psychopath.
Minnesota GOP leader declares war on Neil Gaiman →
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wilwheaton:
“Minnesota House Majority leader called author Neil Gaiman a ‘pencil-necked weasel’ that he ‘hated’ for earning $45K from a state arts fund for speaking at a library.” The $45K in question was specifically earmarked for bringing authors to suburban libraries, and Neil donated it...
