January 2012
17 posts
merciblahblah asked: Are you writing somewhere else that we can see it? I miss your voice!
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Trying on a new jacket
N: Let me see.
N: If you're ever on Doctor Who, that should be your coat.
S: I don't know if that's good or bad.
N: It's definitely good.
“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of...”
– Edith Wharton, from her autobiography (via turtalia)
What if those modern blockbusters were made in the... →
(Via Millie on FB)
Aw, Poops!: To put it in perspective, 14 years... →
awpoops:
I’ve seen a lot of people making the argument that Joe Paterno’s legacy shouldn’t be tied to the sex scandal that engulfed the last 12 weeks of his life, abruptly ending his career in disgrace. The man coached a college football team for almost half a century and he did it well. He won a lot of…
Can I make an auto reply link to this for any Paterno apologists on Twitter and FB?
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Last night at Freddy's
We went to Fuck Hill in the shaggin’ wagon. We decided to dedicate our lives to synchronized swimming. We got a shit part in HMS Pinafore. We hated his haircut but loved his armpit hair. We broke our toe during secret cheerleading practice in the basement. We saw him at Pizza Paul & Mary. We grew out our Rachel. We Frenched. We took the hand of the demon. We had an ice sculpture of a...
unrepentant asked: did you use an immigration lawyer when you submitted your fiance visa? if so, is it possible for me to get a recommendation from you? thank you so much!
N: I can never remember with Chris and Tracie, who’s Poops and who’s Peeps?
S: Here’s how you remember —
N: Wait! Tracie’s Poops because she shits herself?
S: No, but now I’m gonna Tumblr this.
A very tempting way to think, and also very bad...
“Remember back then, when everything was calm, only we didn’t know it was calm because X hadn’t happened yet to make us panic? Maybe right now is actually like then, and what I think are major to do list/stress items are just small change. Ah shit.”
You Want I Should Give You More?: Heroine Chic →
lareviewofbooks:
EVIE NAGY on Miss Fury, the first female superhero. Art by Tarpé Mills
Tarpé Mills Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944–1949 IDW Publishing, July 2011. 240 pp. DC Direct, the merchandizing arm of publisher DC Comics, produces a line of collectible…
Evie Nagy is not just a smart person and good writer. She also plays a great game of Laser Tag.
Advice from the eavesdropper, East Village lunch...
If you’ve asked your friend to be a bridesmaid in your wedding, and she’s really hung up on whether or not the groomsman who will escort her down the aisle is attractive, stop being friends with this girl now and save yourself years of bullshit.
December 2011
17 posts
You Want I Should Give You More?: The Right Fit →
lareviewofbooks:
ROSTEN WOO on how the spacesuit was made.
Spaceman © Ed Emshwiller, courtesy of the Emshwiller family
Nicholas de Monchaux Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo The MIT Press, March 2011. 380 pp. Not long ago, I spent an afternoon inside Biosphere II, a 3.14-acre…
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A letter to 14 year old me about marriage, written...
Dear 14 year old me,
Hey. What page are you at in No One Here Gets Out Alive? Cool. Anyway. I know you’re weirded out by the idea of marriage, and have some concerns about exactly what it might entail, so now that I’ve been married for exactly one year, I thought I’d give you a rundown of how it works out for us so far:
Number one, you get to fall asleep with a guy every night....
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Ingurgitate: The same person who sang "You’re a... →
giddygirlie:
mentalflossr:
His name is Thurl Ravenscroft. He’s grrrreat.
His voice is also in the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion rides at the Disney theme parks. His is the face on the “broken” bust in the graveyard scene that a lot of people think is Walt Disney…
Why have I always thought Boris Karloff sang the Grinch song?
November 2011
20 posts
Tis the sleazin'
Those vaguely racist Lexus commercials where all the blond white people dressed all in white give each other white Lexuses in the snow have now expanded to allow the token black family to give each other a black Lexus.
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Thank you, Internet!
Your advice has benefitted and no doubt prolonged my life yet again. Without you they’d find me in my pajamas in the snow, reading discarded candy wrappers, unsure of where I lived.
Dear crafty people,
(By “crafty people” I mean “people with real life skills who are more likely than me to survive in any scenario that doesn’t require decent spelling or good penmanship to make it out alive.”)
So I ordered a coat online, and it arrived with horrible buttons. The coat itself is cute, and it fits well, but all these buttons, they’re awful, they’re Estelle...
Hey younger me, two things that might help:
1) If your new friend mentions more than two people who “totally hate” her within a month of you meeting her, there could be a good reason for that.
2) If your friend has an unusually high number of people in her life who just suddenly go crazy on her, she’s either bad at choosing friends or maybe a little crazy herself.
Elevenses
Friday night bubble bath. Used the last of the bottle bought on first trip to England four years ago. Cold enough to turn the heating on. Baklava and red zinger tea in bed. Fireworks outside our window. Pet names and pillow talk. Married eleven months now. Secret treehouse life forever.
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One time Nick watched Bride Wars on a plane...
N: You are not going to believe what I watched today.
S: What.
N: I was really tired, and the computer wasn't working, and it was the first new thing on Netflix Streaming.
S: Oh god.
N: I just wanted something colorful and friendly to doze off to.
S: Oh god.
N: I only watched half of it!
S: Just say it.
N: Gnomeo and Juliet.
S: WHAT
N: Gnomeo and Juliet.
S: We have a new Bride Wars!
N: It's not that bad!
S: Not that bad?!
N: I mean not Bride Wars-bad.
S: Oh my god.
LATER
S: So how was it?
N: How was what?
S: Gnomeo and Juliet.
N: It actually has a stellar cast. Michael Caine, Jason Statham, whats-her-chuff from that movie about fashion with Meryl Streep...
S: You are so lucky I sleep with you.
LUV & HAT: STARBUCKS CHRISTMAS →
luvandhat:
LUV - Do you know why Coca-Cola’s “the holidays are coming” Christmas campaign never really took off in the UK? Apart from the fact that we don’t call it “the holidays” over here? Or that their weird photo-realistic Polar Express-style animated Santa is a bit, well, rapey? Or that, in the…
“It’s a CUP. It’s just a cup.”
