January 2012
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December 2011
83 posts
My mother is relabeling Blue Moon beer as "Blue...
She asked me to help her make graphics of blue balls on the computer. What the fuck is wrong with her?!
I feel ya, Esther
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South...
Thought that this chest cold might be good while...
but instead, I just sound like a pubescent boy.
“This guy Kurt Vonnegut was a genius! …Either that or he was high.”
– my mother
BRAIN-GUTS.: What Planned Parenthood Actually Does →
becauseiamawoman:
The Oppressed Little Fetus: What Planned Parenthood Actually Does
feministblackboard:
Conservatives are fond of willfully ignorant statements like: Our tax dollars shouldn’t go to abortion, so Planned Parenthood should have its funding stripped. We all know this…
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller
(Caitlin gave me this awesome picture frame with a background she made that had this quote on it. This quote is exactly what I need at this point in my life, I think.)
Sex Scandal: Gays Apologize for Destroying... →
Last week, in the wake of a hot-and-heavy extramarital affair with a male staffer and multiple reprimands from her own Republican party, Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch apologized and resigned.
But the affair wasn’t her fault:
Las Vegas officially names Jan. 2 Deadmau5 Day →
“ms. Bacall is more well known. think she was married to bogart. heres looking at...”
– my dad’s response when I told him Lauren Bacall and Jean Simmons were in Howl’s Moving Castle
it's the music, people!: Reforming education dos &... →
itsthemusicpeople:
by Scott McLeod based on a recent article from Alberta Views and the new book Surpassing Shanghai
What the U.S.A. does that doesn’t/isn’t/hasn’t work/working/worked:
‘market-based’ reforms (the application of ‘business insights’ to the running of schools)
emphasize…
For all you chocolate lovers... →
Most awesome music videos of 2011 →
…supposedly
I found a baseball in a package I got
I think it was inadvertently mixed up in the plastic bags used as stuffing. It’s been so long since I tossed a baseball around. When I was about five, I joined a T-ball team. My number was 1 because I was the only girl on my team (Go Cubs!). As much as I would love to tell some inspiring story about how I proved to the world that girls can play just as well as boys, I must admit that I...
"The Game of Her Life" →
I read this in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. It is an amazing story and reminded me of my love of chess as a young girl, but also how lucky I was to be able to have multiple complete sets, chess clocks, read chess books, and take private lessons growing up. I can’t imagine being in this girl’s position. Chess was my life, but at the end of the day, it was always a game. ...
The Best Of Condescending Literary Pun Dog →
#occupywallstreet: kelsium: SOPA Emergency IP... →
kelsium:
SOPA Emergency IP list
anglophonic:
Here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 …
"Love is a Parallax" by Sylvia Plath
‘Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:
train tracks always meet, not here, but only
in the impossible mind’s eye;
horizons beat a retreat as we embark
on sophist seas to overtake that mark
where wave pretends to drench real sky.’
‘Well then, if we agree, it is not odd
that one man’s devil is another’s god
or that the solar spectrum is
a...
