January 2012
“I
Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Snow-fairies falling,...”
– “The Snow Fairy,” Claude McKay
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All I Could Do is Cry (Etta James)
RIP.
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GOOD: Open Marriages Aren't Wrong -- Newt Gingrich... →
‘m fairly sure Gingrich wasn’t proposing an open marriage in the hopes of flouting repressive traditions: He was just seeking permission to continue a moral lapse he’d grown comfortable in. His strategy of choice—popping the question over the phone at Marianne’s mother’s 84th birthday—was tasteless, to put it mildly. And not only did Gingrich ask for an open...
“Everything would have been perfect if some [expletive] program note author...”
– Jeremy Denk (Think Denk)
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“The great souls are not the popular, the domineering, the authoritative. They...”
– Harry C. Meserve, Imprints of the Divine: A Lenten Manual for 1960 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Nostalgia from a World in which Print was King and Critics were Oracular...”
– John Rockwell, formerly of the New York Times, is giving a lecture with this title at my college in three days.
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“Alright, listen up. I’m only gonna say this once.
Virginity is EXACTLY what...”
– Martha, Sex Week at Harvard blog→ (via sexweek)
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“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via venula)
“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his...”
– Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through The Fire (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)
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procatinator, also known as "shegufta will be the... →
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“My goal in life is not fame or fortune. It is simply to one day own a library...”
– eternallinestotime (via eternallinestotime)
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“Only a night from old to new!
Only a night, and so much wrought!
The Old...”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
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“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
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On Battleship Hill (PJ Harvey)
(via lowpresssure)
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“And for this year, my wish for each of us is small and very simple.
And...”
– Neil Gaiman
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December 2011
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Tumblr's Support Problem with 'Missing e'
missing-e:
As many users have observed, Tumblr has recently given users a choice to uninstall Missing e or revoke support for your account.
The reasons they give for suggesting that you uninstall Missing e are the worst-case scenario for installing browser extensions or browser modifications of any kind. However, Missing e is not a source of these kinds of problems.
At worst, Missing e may...
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Wanna get your serial killer on? Why not throw...
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Best Songs of 2011
My drop in the ocean of best of the year lists. These are not in numerical order: they are simply organized by artist name.
Autra - Lose It Proof that sopranos like me can still sing pop music. On the list for the wordless high high vocal sections; without it, it would be the most generic.
Björk - Virus Any other song with the lyric “the protein transmutates” will never be as good as this. I...
“And at once I knew, I was not magnificent.”
– Bon Iver, “Holocene”
“You’re wondering if I’m lonely:
OK then, yes, I’m lonely
as a plane rides...”
– Adrienne Rich
(via Whimsicalities)
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blugh
I can’t breathe through my nose.
So it begins.
things I dreamt
I was sitting in a strange garden by the Plaza Hotel (strange meaning there were no tourists around and it looked like it was 1900) and I was wearing my prom dress. I figured out that I was dressed up fancy because my friend Will (from Oberlin) was getting married and I was supposed to be some member of the wedding party; I’m not sure what. I saw a bunch of Obies (mostly members of my class)...
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WatchDarlene Love does Christmas! For the Jews!