December 2011
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April 2011
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Jackie Clarke: Oh Gwynnie! →
If her stove is the epicenter of her house, maybe she should do us all a favor and sylvia plath herself into it…
jackieclarke:
Eater.com compiled the best lines from Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook.
So hard to pick a douchie-fave!
1) ”One year I was given a birthday present I’ll never forget — a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.”
2) ”Through this process my father and daughter had...
December 2010
2 posts
things hollywood can lose: you're better off... →
thingshollywoodcanlose:
it never fails in a heist movie to throw in some security lasers. i don’t particularly understand the necessity when you can literally just make a room temperature and weight sensitive, but for some reason movie makers believe they add a necessary tension, despite the fact that the…
July 2010
1 post
FacePainting (Why I Will Be Avoiding Airbender)
splinterend:
As some of you may know, Paramount commissioned (in)famous director M. Night Shyamalan to adapt the popular Nickelodian series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” into a movie trilogy. The TV series revolves a fantasical, Hayao Miyazaki-inspired universe that deals with individuals capable of controlling and manipulating (aka “bending”) one or several of the earth’s elements – Earth,...
March 2010
3 posts
Orpheus and Andros @ SANDMAN #41: "Brief Lives:1"
Orpheus: "She was a remarkable woman."
Andros: "All women are remarkable."
November 2009
3 posts
“206 bones. 5 major organs. 60,000 miles of blood vessels. All it takes is time....”
– oh, my love
Batman
(via The Daily Batman)
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July 2009
8 posts
Writing →
I’ve started writing again. Is it terrifying? Yes. Yes it is. Check it out, if you like. I’m doing it with my friend, Aubree. We post under our names. enjoy… ?
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is...”
– James Nicoll (via srsly)
June 2009
13 posts
Books That I Haven't Read & Probably Won't Any...
this is hilarious, and i agree with most of them. i will, however, try to read at least one ayn rand. just so i can say i did.
printedandbound:
For one reason or another I have made a list in my mind of books that I really have no interest in reading. I guess I can be a cynical bastard. I see it like being at a party, and for one reason or another, there are certain people that just put you...
“The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought…you do not escape from...”
– -George Orwell. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. [I’m feeling this now.] (via southerndrawl) (via printedandbound)
oh george orwell, i love you so very, very much
“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to...”
– wow.
Excerpt from A Hanging, by George Orwell. Full text here (via printedandbound)
May 2009
6 posts
A thought
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” - Mark Twain Is this elitism? While on the train today I saw someone reading one of those throwaway, urban romance/crime novels, and I thought, “Why bother reading at all?” I’ve often thought this upon hearing of friends reading Harry Potter. It is difficult to deny that the writing is...
April 2009
12 posts
twitter?
Lauren: i dont understand twitter
me: i dont understand it either
someone sent me that link and i thought it was funny
but its basically fb headlines, and thats it
just people telling you the most minute detail of their thoughts
which i find incredibly narcissistic
Lauren: omg get a life
me: yah, we live in the age of "look at me!!! lookatmelookatmelookatme!!!!"
its like when you were a kid and youd say "look at me mom! look what i can do! look mom looklooklooklooklooklook"
thats life now
Words by Anne Sexton
caseyadam:
Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects and leave not a sting but a kiss. They can be as good as fingers. They can be as trusty as the rock you stick your bottom on. But they can be both daisies and bruises. Yet I am in love with words. They are doves falling out of the ceiling. They are six holy oranges...
