April 2010
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March 2010
I think I might be most proud of the internal... →
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Help save the world & read the internet all day.
This job was always meant to be part-time. 28 hours a week, sweet benefits, and I can go to the gym in the morning, I mean sleep late, I mean have time to write. But then the office got a little wonky, and I went to full-time for three months. Which is becoming four months. So, hey, there’s some credit card paid off! And not that I am counting down the days to having my life back -...
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I got nothing.: Sexytexting - FAIL →
GUYS, I attempted to sexytext bubba. It didn’t go well.
bubba: Hey, it is so bad outside. I walked to work and got soaked. I had to take my socks and shoes off. They are drying on the heater. My jeans are soaked, too.
rosa: Yikes, that’s awful. Your jeans are soaked? Did you take them off?
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Okay, tumblr, don’t disappoint.
I’m trying to remember the name of a Wayne Koestenbaum essay I read in college. It’s a musing/reminiscence on his hometown/chilhood, I think. I believe alphabetically ordered. (It is also, btw, completely awesome. Or was when I was 20. Probably still is.)
The internet is no help, and I am caffeinated enough that this seems REALLY IMPORTANT.
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Tanner and I May or May Not Have Watched the First... →
I think it’s telling that the first question asked is whether kids like the food. This assumes that liking food is independent of external influences like peer pressure and food marketing.
Since when do kids get to decide what’s best for them to eat? Isn’t that an adult responsibility?
"Warning: if you read this you'll probably never... →
(via alexbalk)
The really disturbing revelations come later on. (Before you get to me in the comments section talking about how I haven’t cleaned Meg’s litterbox in a few days.)
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Happy birthday, Robert Frost. This is an awesome... →
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coffee and jews
glittermixed:
There is some brand of coffee commercial where a daughter and her father are having coffee in the morning and the dad is like,
“you stayed out late last night” and the daughter is like “well, you wont have to worry about that anymore” and she shows him her engagement ring. and then the dad says “Todd’s a lucky man”. Well. EVERY time I see that commercial I think he is starting to...
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Fuck you, gorgeous weather last weekend. Now this... →
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13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon →
(via doree, via)
I really like where this gets going around item 7. And really:
There is — Julie Klausner addressed this recently, in her book — a persistent fantasy, among a certain variety of dude, that someday they will meet the most beautiful woman in the entire world and no-one else will realize how beautiful she is.
(There is also the fantasy among ladies that they are the most...
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Good morning. →
(To which I add this only marginally related Tony Kushner quote: If we are to be visited by angels we will have to call them down with sweat and strain, we will have to drag them out of the skies, and the efforts we expend to draw the heavens to an earthly place may well leave us too exhausted to appreciate the fruits of our labors: an angel, even with torn robes, and ruffled feathers, is in...
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This is super true. Also: what you eat is like... →
So, according to the JAMA study, women should moderately exercise 60 minutes a day, 7 days a week, if they wish to maintain a ‘normal’ weight, and not gain any throughout their life. OK. Sure, gotcha, medical folks.
But here’s the thing. There is no qualitative explanation to ‘moderate’…
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Things I will not say to old ladies I don't know:...
There is some serious political reply-alling going on among a cc list that includes my family and people who I think are my grandparents’ friends. My sister answered someone with an amazing couple of paragraphs about framing and political messages, etc. I read it like four times because it was so good.
Someone - not a relative, so I think a grandparents’ friends - replied:
Oh...
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Pretty ugly: Can we please stop pretending that... →
julieklausner:
I feel like the most important part of this piece is how you can only make self-deprecating jokes about your character’s gluttony once you’re thin enough to be on camera. Liz Lemon can joke about leaving a waffle in the DVD player because Tina Fey lost enough weight to play her.
This reminds me of Ariel Levy’s point in Female Chauvinist Pigs about how much America loves a sexy...
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Lazy girls want to fall asleep on top of the...
9:53pm’s probably too early to be aching for sleep like this, grandma, lazy girls say to themselves.
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