January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
3 posts
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens
you had so much more to fucking tell us you asshole goddamit I’m not taking this well why what the fuck
(via nedhepburn)
April 2011
3 posts
1 tag
March 2011
2 posts
April 2010
1 post
“Every cool band wears checks at sound check.”
– The Guardian brings us the worst sentence ever involving a play on the duality of “check.”
March 2010
3 posts
No Word: 8 Ways to Say Wimp in German →
You can tell a lot about a culture by the number of words its language has to describe something. Chinese has a name for every imaginable family member, and German is no different. Except instead of naming family, it names cowards, wimps, handschuhschneeballwerfers.
Schattenparker: Someone who…
Saudade
knowword:
Portuguese for a vague and constant nostalgia for something that does not exist or cannot ever again.
February 2010
5 posts
January 2010
4 posts
There is no way this is real. →
My Perfect American Girl Youth Doll
I need to come clean about this. The American Girls collection is pretty much responsible for my ability to read, and even though Samantha was my favorite — she was rich and lived in the city, ate petite fours and had her maid churn her ice cream — I got the Kirsten doll because, and I quote, “I like Samantha, she has the nicest clothes and the best furniture, but she has THOSE BROWN...
December 2009
4 posts
“Kutcher sent a message on Twitter Sunday morning about Murphy’s death:...”
– and this is in the AP article.
November 2009
8 posts
Every Email — Worth It
Dear Megan, I have checked pricing at the DVD Warehouse and the cost of replacing your lost movies with new ones is as follows: Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay $7.95 Waterworld $4.95 Journey to the Centre of the Earth $9.95 Logan’s Run $12.95 This totals $35.80 so I would rather pay that than the $82 late fee. I have no idea why Logan’s Run is the most expensive of...
WatchA few weeks ago when I was giving away all my possessions to avoid commitment, I was telling someone when friends annoy or bore or undermine her, just stop talking to them. That’s what I do! It’s always struck me as a fake to continue being friends, or whatever, with a person when you have more mean than nice thoughts. Sooner or later, everyone is disappointing, so you know …...
October 2009
4 posts
1 tag
I thought this looked familiar
youngmanhattanite:
Just read Regretsy and everything will be fine.
September 2009
4 posts
When I look back at some of the old posts here, I don’t even know what I am talking about.
August 2009
4 posts
My Thoughts on Canadians
This morning I reached in front of a biker dude as I was mixing a kilogram of sugar into my latte, and I said “sorry!”
“What are you soarrry for,” he asked. “I … I … don’t … nothing, everything … reaching in front of you.” “Well that would be pretty awful if i was mad at you for that!” [laugh, nervously] “Have a...
When Nature Will Not Nurture
It’s taken me 1.5 scores to unearth my relationship with nature. I hate it. Well, not hate it like I hate mice and sleet and the sunny side of the street, but hate it as in a city park is plenty for me. A not-in-my-backyard hate. As if I had a backyard. (Disclosure: I do, but have never been in it).
I am in Vancouver. I hate Vancouver less today than I did two days ago, but I am not moved...
July 2009
1 post
newsyoumightuse:
NYT today had a piece about 11 Canadian expats that was charming (is there another word to describe them). It was so charming that I could not pick just one quote; however, it was NOT so charming that I felt a need to go beyond two.
I remember singing “God Save the Queen” every morning in school. “Long live our noble Queen!” we belted, thousands of us tubby little obedient...
June 2009
5 posts
“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle...”
– guess who! (via newsyoumightuse)