January 2012
36 posts
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On Brainpickings: 75 years of existential...
Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo. found it through BrainPickings. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
pica
interesting. because pica is also the eating disorder that makes people eat things they shouldn’t. like whitewall. and chalk. and paper. and dirt.
because if they don’t, the world may explode.
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about...
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Maurice Sendak....
via ccinsider.comedycentral.com woot, woot! crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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let me just put this here. metallica, kids and...
via youtube.com i just love the aging rock star. just love love love them. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Here comes the neighborhood!
via vimeo.com crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Yes, and... | Elisa Bassett lays writing...
2. Play to the top of your intelligence. I wish I could explain this one better, but I think I just like the phrase, “Play to the top of your intelligence.” (Here is what Google says: ”If your character is stupid, be smart about how you’re stupid,” which I take to mean, be stupid in a specific way). 2a. I am trying to write a book. The book begins with me as a college student, a...
Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web →
neilgaiman:
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would…
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The Situation in [insert country/designation]...
Found these series of interviews from Maud Newton, and apart from showing my favorite answers so far—I’m interested to hear about what people in my “circle” think about these set of questions asked by Full Stop as inspired by The Partisan Review. (don’t you just love that name?) Here’s the basic description: In 1939, The Partisan Review sent out a questionnaire...
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
photosxmusic:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, 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 ...
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the kid who can't stop screaming. | Bo Burnham
yay, another blond singer! crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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The love story that feeds the earth
When it includes insects, that subject doesn’t sound so sappy. Like Isabella Rosellini’s Green Porno. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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The Joy of Books in stop-motion
via youtube.com found via Brainpickings.org crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man! - YouTube
via youtube.com such happiness! we’re off. Wheeeeee! crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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speaking of sexy.
via inspire.2ia.pl Racional by Yoan Capote crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Riusuke Fukahori Goldfish Salvation | Spoon &...
via spoon-tamago.com Click through to read how each artwork is made. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Maybe she's born with it. by JesseRosten.com
Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s fotoshop by adobé. Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.Crossposted from http://www.irrationalfitsofbeauty.com
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One of the best dreams I've heard
(not mine obviously) is the one that ends with poetry being recited to cheering and standing crowds in a stadium. And from a post on Facebook which led me to Youtube, i found this: and this oh the voice, the human voice indeed. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
East + West + Gershwin: Herbie Hancock and Lang...
via brainpickings.org crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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can you imagine how lovely and warm this place...
via thecoolhunter.net crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Does anyone want to run away with me? | Yatzer
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Dear Customer Who Stuck Up For His Little Brother...
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15 and 17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10 to 12 years old. The only way to describe him was scrawny, neat, and very clean for a boy his age. They were talking about finding a game for the younger one, and he was absolutely...
A long sentence is worth the read - latimes.com
Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so many-chambered and lavish and abundant in tones and suggestions, that has so much room for near-contradiction and ambiguity and those places in memory or imagination that can’t be simplified, or put into easy words, that it allows the reader to keep many things in her head and heart at the same time, and to descend, as...
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Tim Minchin meets Storm | A beat poem set to...
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Ryan Gosling wants to tell you.
via Hey Girl. I love museums. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Poet, Breathe Now. | Adam Gottlieb.
via youtube.com crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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In Love, His Grammar Grew by Stephen Dunn | Poetry...
and the beautiful fraternal twins and and but. Oh that was when he knew he couldn’t resist a conjunction of any kind. One said accumulate, the other was a doubter who loved the wind and the mind that cleans up after it.via poetryfoundation.org wheeeeeeee! crossposted from we are made of everyone else
Is that a fish in your ear?
Animation – Is That A Fish In Your Ear? – David Bellos from Penguin Books on Vimeo.
from here
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Beauty Lurking: Iris Apfel on ITG
Now this I think is style: I don’t like trends anyway—I like tradition. I’m doing the same thing and liking the same things. Of course, to say I don’t change—that makes me sound like I’m a dimwit. You change as you go along. I mean, you grow—but my basic sensibility is the same. I’m not doing anything in a violently different way now than I did fifty years ago. from here which if you think...
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Bag Lady, Part Deux
Actually, I think I’ve written about what goes into my bag so many times. Each time, a confession. Here, I am at my most sappy. But this year, and the last weeks from the previous year, this is what’s in my bag. It also comes with the revelation that when harassed and asked to pack a bag quickly, I grabbed two toiletries —facial wash (Clean slate) and feminine wash. What that...
December 2011
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Wanted to buy a new pair of shoes or even a dress,...
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Look who's raring to go home! #tamanahospital...
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Just hibernating.
Hi. You might have been wondering about the wondrous adventures of Anina Diva La Rue (who obviously has to think of a better drag name,) so I want to say Hi for a bit. If you’ve been reading the blog for the two years-ish that it’s been up, I have dry spells. This might be a dry spell—this might be a transformation—and like a phoenix, I will rise up from the ashes with a feather boa...
Waiting for noche buena
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Oh fudge.
Listening to music while wrapping gifts, I found myself asking quite derisively,” Oh isn’t it tiring to be so ironic all the time?” Except the next song (which of course was a love song) was truthful or sounded like it was factual and quite rational.
Then I realized that irony is dealing with facts and the self-conscious air quotes or winkwinklookwhatiseethatyoudont is what...
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Mega-adorbz of the day: Telling Our Gay Dads that...
via youtube.com Well, ang saya lang ng mga lolo niyo. And yes, I cried. via http://littlemissdorkette.tumblr.com/post/14573174037/cutefloral-sweaters-lou… crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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I have been inundated by androgyny.
via sg.news.yahoo.com Male Model Andrej Pejic and the Mega Push-up bra. you have to admit that premise is super cool.Crossposted from http://www.irrationalfitsofbeauty.com
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A Good Vibes Two-fer
A Tease of Tattly Tattly from Made by Hand on Vimeo. And yet another tease, Michael Attenborough. that cheeky old man. his lovely cadence and timbre drive me to tears. both via Maria Popova, curator par excellence of the Internet. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Well, Barbie was never really known for her...
A group of Swedish neuroscientists determined that the perception of your whole body is affected by the size of your body image. via bobulate.com Please click through, it’s mighty interesting. Then after you’ve read the entry, just go to the rest of the blog and lose hours there. just lose it. crossposted from we are made of everyone else
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Why We Broke Up: Maira Kalman + Lemony Snicket's...
via brainpickings.org crossposted from we are made of everyone else
I said I want to be taken seriously
See the full gallery on Posterous So I reverted to type and bought the Barbie-est pink planner I could find in national bookstore (oooh stationery village!) it’s shiny too. So shiny that it captures fingerprints quite accurately which is perfect for me because a proper lady always wears gloves. And I never mind polishing my planners. Less than 300 pesos! Though I was surprised that...
technology tends to look insects ano? today's...
for his birthday. crossposted from we are made of everyone else