February 2012
25 posts
“I’m Not Talking” - Mose...
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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The Onion: Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v.... →
“It is the opinion of this court that the Constitution was crafted in such a manner as to uphold and encourage practices that are not right and, ideally, are very wrong… Despite the compelling case for goodness, truth, and justice made by our predecessors in the case of Right v. Wrong, we firmly believe that malice, dishonesty, and injustice were the framers’ original...
AUSTIN KLEON: Ebooks: It's not what you say, it's... →
austinkleon:
Exhibit A: Jonathan Franzen
Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing – that’s reassuring….Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were...
January 2012
96 posts
WatchI love this, too!
I’ve found that I really enjoy curating. I can see how that’s fun. And I like that I build up an archive of things I like, and from those things, I can see what continues to interest me and what continues to bug me. What my themes are. Anyway, yay curating.
[Y’see how I shot myself down at the end? I do that a lot, f’rinstance.]
Wait. Wait. This is not my hat.: Katie liveblogs... →
katefeetie:
“You’re watching Masterpiece Theatre.” DON’T TELL ME WHAT I’M WATCHING, LAURA LINNEY.
Ye olde one percent.
“You mean the ladies in first class [on the Titanic]?” Ten minutes in and they’re already talking about Kate Winslet. Knock it off, British people.
Is this one chick’s character American or does her English accent just suck?
Every. Single. One. Of these hats needs to come...
What raising kids is supposed to teach you:
That you’re not in control
That you can love someone outside of yourself as much or more than your self
That with-childlike-wonder is a real way to see the world
That some shit is super interesting (topics vary)
That fakeness and shallowness and cruelty are truly awful personality traits
That swings and rollercoasters are fun
That cake and...
“I Can See Clearly, Now” - Jimmy...
