February 2012
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“You want to talk about values? Hard work — that’s a value. Looking out for one...”
– President Obama, today, in Detroit. via Rachel Maddow. I cried a little, nbd. (via helio-phile)
I mean, seriously. I just love this man.
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
BOOM.
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Welp.
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The New York Times said that this comment was “in questionable taste”, to which I have to say…Chris Rock is calling like it is. Why shouldn’t...
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why is there snow outside
no, seriously, why is there snow on the ground? i am exceptionally, disproportionately displeased.
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what, exactly, is falling from the sky right now?
no, seriously, what is this shit?
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Jamming out at the library on a Saturday night
Metric just came up on my Florence + the Machine station…that’s how you know it’s good. And I’m just sitting in the carrels jamming and having a grand old time writing about cognitive metaphors and contagion and boundaries and globalization (and god help me, this thesis is sort of spiraling out of control BUT WHO CARES).
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Fringe gives me a lot of thoughts...
no mind splosions just allllll the FEEELINGSSSS ALL THE TIME.
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AYFKM and other acronyms: deplaisant: Today I took... →
deplaisant:
Today I took a moment for myself between shifts. Sitting outside a coffee shop I was completely alone. And I realized I’m alone in most areas of my life. I have no friends in real life, and no one I can call to just see and have a human connection with. It didn’t hurt. It was a…
I was fascinated both to read this and to read tinyvolcanicmoon’s response, because I...
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Just watched "A Better Human Being"
I spent the entire time being enraptured by the way Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson communicate so well with their eyes.
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The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
and this is why we don't get doctor who on our televisions kids
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“Most of our metaphors have evolved in our culture over a long period, but many...”
– Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980)
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Save me, I'm lost/Oh lord, I've been waiting for...
save me from being confused
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Little Miss Tough Girl
Final 10 mile run: moved it up a day because the forecast for tomorrow is frankly terrible (snow in the mountains, rain here, and gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Who needs it?) It was exactly 30 degrees warmer than my first ten mile run (if you’ll recall, it was 27 degrees, and I was underdressed, explaining my ridiculously fast time). It was 57 today, which was actually very nice, but there was...
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“Please convey to Sen Garrett my sense of outrage at the very idea of this bill....”
– A letter my dad wrote to our Senator about the Virginia transvaginal ultrasound bill. The appreciation I have for this man knows no bounds. (via wonderbecky)
Doug wins all the things.
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This is the most articulate response I’ve seen to these issues, and is incredibly polite to...
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“Is this then really the difference between ritual pollution and our ideas of...”
– Mary Douglas, ladies and gentlemen, taking down biomedicine since 1966.
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“Show emotion and you are too fragile, untrustworthy, and incapable for the...”
– Female Candidates and the Emotion Doublebind – this ain’t livin’ (via lookoutsideyourself)
Extremely personally relevant.
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I'm opening my rude and judgmental mouth to say...
I don’t understand people who immediately started shipping stranger/August Booth and Emma. August basically has no character, and the only time he’s managed not to sound forced and contrived was when he was talking about the magical properties of water (which was like, ‘scuze me while I go puke from how trite this is). I feel like a lot of people think he’s so...
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On "Mulan"
Ashley: You better go after her, you big pectoral fool!
Ashley: Take your big man-pecs and follow her!
Me: ....lolz
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3rd 10 mi run
The usual: up to the airport. Clearly a spring run in Walla Walla - warm, cloudy, and breezy (wind around 15 knt, gusts around 20-25 knt). Met another runner who couldn’t find his wife (?) and actually saw people because I got a late start. 1:25 (which explains why I feel like lead. also running into the wind is exhausting)
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Just heard from my East Coast SFS girls
i missssss themmmmm (and Mexico)
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Still more thoughts on Fringe
What about Faux!livia’s baby? If there was no Peter, there’s no baby, right, but is she going to start remembering the baby? I’m assuming so, because normal Olivia is starting to remember things…
How weird would that be? To remember a baby you’ve never had, but had before the timeline got confused?
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I want to walk barefoot, bare-bodied through this...
My wish for a thousand years is to be this person, unencumbered, unburdened
someone who is big-hearted but not wounded by every strike against her
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AYFKM and other acronyms: No Homo Personified: Or... →
the-eirian-race:
As we enter into an age where three different Sherlock Holmes adaptations are going to be happening at once, I have to wonder about the seemingly growing trend of “bromance” films. Though the films themselves aren’t anything knew, the labelling of them is. I can’t help…
Ellie is on point tonight as at all times.
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More on Fringe
Also, if Peter is in the correct timeline, as we’re all (okay, well I assume everyone is back on that bandwagon) thinking, what will the machine do? Will they abandon it, or will he keep working on it?
seriously, who even knows?
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I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE... →
I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys.
I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous...
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Speaking purely as a male feminist...
stfuconservatives:
I have never met a feminist who hates men, though they all hate people who think that most feminists hate men. -Joe
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10 mi run
The usual: airport. Drizzling the whole time, but not very cold. 1:35 (yes, a whole fifteen minutes slower than last week - I’m tired. And despondent. And achy [because we did attitude in ballet this week, and it’s cold and drizzly and I’m eighty, so my joints hurt]). Good run. Quiet.
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the desert that craves water with an empty ache
although it has never had the joy of a rain storm.
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The De-Evolution Of Caring About A Really...
musicforeighteenamphibians:
interesting
really?
oh god
The BURDEN OF MY PRETENTION [sic]
ooooooo
the fuck?
wrong terminology, bro NVMND
THE HORROR
whereeee
why couldn’t you saaaave it????
shame on youuuu
science?
fuck you
WUT IZ RONG WIT UUUU?
OH GAWD WHAT A MoThEr FUCKING Shame
This is truly Carissa at her finest.
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I don't wannaaaaaa....
do my work.
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