January 2012
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I’ve never really done the whole resolution thing, mostly because “isn’t expecting things and making plans a recipe for disaster, self-loathing, and disappointment?” as well as a fundamental aversion to the ideology of self-improvement but… I did it, or some semblance thereof, despite my distaste.
-This is shaping up to be the year of “finally getting you the...
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“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via bookmania)
December 2011
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Ten Ways To Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow To...
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1 PATRIOTIC
May I borrow your wheelbarrow? I didn’t lay down my life in World War II so that you could borrow my wheelbarrow.
2 SNOBBISH
May I borrow your wheelbarrow? Unfortunately Lord Goodman is using it.
3 OVERWEENING May I borrow your wheelbarrow? It is too mighty a conveyance to be wielded by any mortal save myself.
4 PIOUS
May I borrow your wheelbarrow? My...
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novazembla replied to your post: Re: the transethnic/transabled/otherkin talk… I…
RALPH WALRUS EMERSON.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds otherkin transcendentalist jokes amusing. Besides, those OG libertarians kind of deserve it (I mean transcendentalists, not otherkin….although).
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Re: the transethnic/transabled/otherkin talk…
I am reminded of reading Song of Myself in its entirety for the first time last year. The poem is really beautiful and profound and even the terribly overquoted bits give me feelings, but, but
there are some parts that elicit the same exact reaction from me that these transethnic etc. people get. Probably because I’m dumb and don’t...
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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath. (via -thespeedofpain)
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“‘I was moaning to the make-up girl that I hadn’t got a boyfriend,...”
– -How Tim from The Office found real love: Amanda Abbington on life with Martin Freeman
So, essentially: “I need a girl/boy friend”
“oh, you’re the second person to say that to me today.”
“who’s the first?”
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“The world lost Steve Jobs and we’ll miss him dearly. But thanks to a Horcrux he...”
– Chris Hardwick in his rhyming recap of 2011 on the Nerdist year end special. (via popculturebrain)
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For Christmas I got a pair of sweatpants that look like real pleated pants.
I am never taking them off except to lovingly hand wash them in a fresh mountain spring downriver from a sacred, ancient location for human sacrifice.
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Four Common Misconceptions about Irene Adler:
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1) Sexuality was never a huge part of her character
This is demonstrably untrue. In the original story of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Irene Adler was a retired opera singer who, some years previously, had an affair with the future King of Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes’ client, seducing him even though they were of far different societal stations. The client describes her as an...
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“Oh, so he didn’t die? Well….that’s awkward, isn’t it? That’s actually more...”
– Mark Watches (via novazembla)
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“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action...”
– Sherlock is never sweeter than when he is using crankiness to hide affection.
From The Blanched Soldier, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(via sherlockslashgoggles)
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novazembla replied to your post: I went out to see a shitty movie with my sister…
wtf is a digital nomad
As I understand it the term applies to people who own computers and iphones etc. (and are generally privileged white boys) who choose to own not much else and just travel around (Europe, or as some call it Europa) living in squats and with friends and stuff. They make money if and...
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I went out to see a shitty movie with my sister because a couple of my mother’s husband’s kids are over for dinner and it’s terribly terribly awkward and I think they might be the worst people I’ve ever met.
So we walk in to say hello and my sister says we were at a movie and the girl just goes, “Oh, I haven’t heard of it. We don’t even have a tv.”...
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“Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to...”
– For someone who is usually so eloquent, Sherlock does seem to bumble about when giving praise.
Bless.
From The Blanched Soldier, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(via sherlockslashgoggles)
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Martin Freeman always plays a normal bloke who...
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“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus (via literati) (via libraryland) 