December 2010
8 posts
“I think the media story of the year, in 2010, was the New York Times’ discovery...”
– NBC’s Brian Williams on “Morning Joe,” via The Atlantic Wire. (via langer)
I’ve already posted the video, but these words bear repeating.
(via kateoplis)
Oh my god this is like every day of my life in Brooklyn! How did they manage to sum it all up so perfectly?! [/sarcasm]
(via indiemaiden)
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Reading-a-Bad-Feminist Confessions: Part 2 of an... →
lenachen:
Speaking of my friends, the fact that Jason is gay is really quite minor, considering that my social group contains individuals at varying levels of crazy. Legit crazy!
When I’m making my bimonthly list of my friends’ wacky mental health issues for possible inappropriate blog content, I too sometimes confuse my copies of the DSM. This often results in my listing...
My brother is in the hospital and I’m getting married in 14 hours and I’m reading Tumblr. Will it always be like this? Will there always be Tumblr? When Tumblr dies where will my personhood live? Will I still have it? Or will I entrust it to another person, rather than an unreliable free server, store it there for safekeeping like a horcrux?
File under: Things I don’t have time...
“There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know the world is going to...”
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as quoted by James Carroll in today’s Globe. I highly recommend his piece on the cultural destruction caused by Ireland’s financial collapse. To excerpt:
The Murphy Report of 2009, the government investigation into the abuse of children by religious figures,...
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Worst double-book ever
I have a one-hour window between observing an evening support group for mentally ill women in poverty and my own bachelorette party.
Most of that hour, I’m sure, will be spent biking home, crying, drinking, and then riding my bike to an as-yet-undisclosed bar.
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High school things that are not as good as you...
Your teenage poetry
Taco Bell
Boxed wine
An ongoing list to be updated periodically.
“not sleeping sucks, but watchin valley girl at 5:30 a.m.——- worth...”
– My mom’s nocturnal Facebook status updates are back!