December 2011
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Watchanimalstalkinginallcaps:
ATIAC will return on Saturday, December 31st because I’ve been sick for six days straight and all I want to do is sleep forever.
I quit smoking day before yesterday, so the veins in my neck may or may not be prominently featured in this video and I may or may not have said “fuck you” to a can of soup earlier.
(They are prominently featured, I definitely told a can of...
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“When the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will...”
– Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855
The Republican Party is a lot like Weezer. Their early stuff was great, and their middle period was still pretty good, but their recent stuff has just been one long descent into self-parody.
(via recoveringhipster)
Nicely put!
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“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via mirroir)
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“The second major misconception comes from the distorting claim that the Bible is...”
– My Take: The 3 biggest biblical misconceptions – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
This article is fantastic.
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“Republican candidate/performance artist Michele Bachmann”
– 2011’s Most Absurd Quotes About Women — And Who Said Them
This just made me choke while drinking water!
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“i love this list, but i can’t help but protest at the lack of 200 cigarettes!”
– Flavorwire » 10 Memorable Cinematic New Year’s Eves
It’s fun when commentors say exactly what you were thinking. I should watch 200 Cigarettes on Sunday.
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So tonight I start my 3-day cat sitting gig. Should be very interesting, staying in a strange place with a strange cat! This one is a ‘pixie bob’, meaning part bobcat, but she doesn’t resemble her wild side very much. She’s not very affectionate though and doesn’t meow much at all, and she has the bobbed tail. I suspect she’ll spend most of the time watching me...
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“Now, the founders of libertarianism - Nozick et. al. - obviously understood the...”
– Noahpinion, “The Liberty of Local Bullies” (via recoveringhipster)
I have to agree with this.
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heyselfdefeater replied to your post: favorite books read in 2011
You should join goodreads! It’ll track your reading for you. I love knowing how many books I read this year! (I also love spying on my friends’ reads) goodreads.com/review/…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
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favorite books read in 2011
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead - Paul Elwork
The Tale of The Body Thief - Anne Rice (reading this now and it’s really good)
This has been sitting in my drafts because I can’t remember all the books I read this...
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“Catholic Charities in Illinois has served for more than 40 years as a major link...”
– Bishops Say Rules on Gay Parents Limit Freedom of Religion - NYTimes.com
This is some cold-hearted, un-Christ-like bullshit right here.
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“White hipster humor about race is often meant to point out racism, but not in...”
– stuff white people do: act like a racist in order to demonstrate that you’re not a racist (via recoveringhipster)
This seriously reminds me of the time when my ex’s friends bought one of those ‘my size’ dolls for their house, as a joke, and it was a black doll, and they kept...
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“I think you’d have to go back to the 1850s to find a period of...”
– Congress Really Is As Bad As You Think, Scholars Say : NPR
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So I got the Jane Eyre dvd for Christmas and I watched it with my parents, my mom being a huge fan of the book and critical about interpretations, and she LOVED it. It made me inexplicably happy. The rest of my loot, or mostly:
BBC Pride and Prejudice mini series
Kate Bush’s 50 Words for Snow and The Dreaming
Bombay Bicycle Club’s I Had the Blues & Shook Them Loose
Forgotten...
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“Beit Shemesh’s growing ultra-Orthodox population has erected street signs...”
– Thousands in Israel rally against Jewish extremists - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
Gee, maybe they should wear burkas.
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“We criticize corporations for being environmentally destructive, but as long as...”
– INTERVIEW: Primatologist Jane Goodall | Green Global Travel
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“We’re especially working with women because, all around the world, as women’s...”
– INTERVIEW: Primatologist Jane Goodall | Green Global Travel
Something that should be a significant eye-opener to those medieval folks against birth control.
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Did you give or receive books this holiday season?...
Yep, Love Goes To Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes to my dad and Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton to my friend who loves cooking.
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Tests Cast Doubt on F.A.A. Restrictions on Kindle... →
Gadgets are tested by monitoring the number of volts per meter coming off a device. The F.A.A. requires that before a plane can be approved as safe, it must be able to withstand up to 100 volts per meter of electrical interference.
When EMT Labs put an Amazon Kindle through a number of tests, the company consistently found that this e-reader emitted less than 30 microvolts per meter when in use....
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“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via bbook)
That third line is what I tell people all the time when they say that L.A. is all superficial. Only parts of it are, guys, and you can avoid those.
goldstaar asked: I know you're a fan of Michael Fassbender (*drools*) I was curious have you saw his movie 'Eden Lake' and if you have, what did you think? :)
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“Jules Manson, a failed Tea Party candidate for local office in California,...”
– Jules Manson, Failed Tea Party Candidate, Calls For Assassination Of Obama, First Daughters
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