January 2012
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Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
By Alice Duer Miller
1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burden of pockets.
5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife...
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Occupy My Heart: The FBI catches up with Swizz... →
rapindustryfanfiction:
Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys sat at the Megaupload headquarters, waiting. They were sitting on the floor, their backs against the wall of the safe that held the physical copies off all of the files they had pirated using Megaupload over the years. Swizz Beats was wearing an eyepatch. He took pirating very seriously.
That rat bastard will.i.am had sold them out, they...
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When is Meryl Streep going to be given an award...
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lindsayrobertson:
“What is musical trajectory that led to Spin Doctors’ ‘Two Princes’?”
- Something I found necessary to wake up and email to myself from bed in the middle of the night last night. I do not know the answer.
I think repeat listenings (I would say at least 12 in a row) make it obvious that the answer is ‘divine inspiration’.
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December 2011
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“I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret...”
– Lemony Snicket (via likebookends)
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april is: a poem a day for national poetry month:... →
april-is:
Onset Kim Addonizio
Watching that frenzy of insects above the bush of white flowers, bush I see everywhere on hill after hill, all I can think of is how terrifying spring is, in its tireless, mindless replications. Everywhere emergence: seed case, chrysalis, uterus, endless manufacturing. And the wrapped stacks of Styrofoam cups in the grocery, lately I can’t stand them, the...
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HEAR ME OUT.
lazybookreviews:
I’m watching all the old X-Files episodes on BBC America, as one does, and I was just struck by a genius, genius idea:
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, as Mulder and Scully, should make a short, yet explicit porno with decent production values. For charity. And then…we all watch it.
Anyone?
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Let the Best Of posts begin!
Just submitted my 2011 playlist to What A Year Sounds like. Sorry I’m not sorry for my killer taste in music, tumblr!
What My 2011 Sounds Like by Emma Chassey on Grooveshark
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“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there...”
– Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (via thelibraryofminds)
In bed nursing a Christmas cold and rereading my ultimate childhood fave: Maud Hart Lovelace.
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My iTunes '25 Most Played' Playlist
The shame, the shame.
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November 2011
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“I’ve always thought that I had the perfect hair to play Jim Hawkins from...”
– James McAvoy, when asked by People ‘what brings out [his] dark side’.
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October 2011
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“yes! awesome! you are an inspiration!”
– my friend Liz, nailing her best friend duties when I texted her that I did 30 Day Shred this morning
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September 2011
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megalong replied to your photo: I didn’t watch the Emmys last night. First of…
I feel like I don’t even know you anymore.
It’s a very sad time for all of us, yes.