January 2012
4 posts
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While trying to decide what music to play in the...
Sister: I want happy music. No rapping.
Me: There are happy rap songs!
Sister: ...They don't sound happy to me.
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Me: ...forever ever, forever ever--you know I like that song, right? By Kanye West.
Sister: I KNOW. You hum it like all the time. Like a million times!!!
Me: WHAAAT? I DO NOT. ARE YOU SERIOUS.
Sister: ALL THE TIME. At least three times I've heard you sing "diamonds are forever."
Me: Three times is not a million times!
December 2011
17 posts
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so of course when i’m actually looking for a women’s sports coat/shooting jacket with elbow patches, the versions i find are made of soft jersey instead of structured tweed, but now when i look through shopstyle, THEY SEEM TO BE EVERYWHERE. i knew it had to be trendy! (this sudden hunt brought to you by me clicking on a ridiculous picture of azis ansari on my tumblr sidebar,...
“Anyway, my personal life seems off limits, even to me at the center of it....”
– Paris Review – Gary Lutz on ‘Divorcer’, Andrew Martin
Press the Escape Key to Generate Spelling... →
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS
When ads get too smart
The one at the top fooled me.
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At first I was like HOW CAN SOMETHING MOVE A THIRD OF A PIXEL? but now it makes sense. I think.
Again,
my perennial problem of not knowing what to do with this thing/curation. So, I guess this will continue to be a mash-up of stuff I like and things I’ve thought about, and Pris/matic will be more carefully crafted. Or something.
Home
I’ve been trying to write about it, but the attempt is kind of faltering, trying to compress and expand. So:
Home is vacation, home is getting picked up at the airport and listening to my sister talk furiously and emphatically. Home is laughing. Home is where my family lives, where my mother talks and grills kalbi and sets out toasted sheets of seaweed and listens to loud Korean pop and my...
“I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home; not to that hotel, in...”
– Giovanni’s Room (1956), James Baldwin.
“Ironically, new technology has reinforced the nostalgic cultural gaze: now that...”
– Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair
Or “…maybe America and the rich world are on the verge of a cascade of the wildly new and insanely great.” I think it’s difficult to generalize progress. Yeah, let’s...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Maybe not the best choice for airport/flight reading material, as I was appalled and depressed and like BRB CRYING through the whole thing.
November 2011
13 posts
thankful
for you and you and you.
“One corollary of that— and this is probably the most important thing for me— is...”
– Jennifer Egan « Writers « The Days of Yore
I’ve probably heard this advice like a thousand times and even said it myself but part of me is always like, “If it’s not perfect immediately, JUST GIVE UP NOW.” But somewhere there is also the part of me that says,...
Watch out for all that pixie dust! - CSMonitor.com →
I have definitely been pixilated by autocorrect.
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Of course, two minutes later:
…The Sword Bearer by John White.
Thank you, random people of the internet who love creating databases.
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Once in a while,
I’ll remember a book I read that I can’t find, despite my crazed Googling. I read this particular book (or books) a long time ago, in some library. My memory of it is hazy and incredibly generic. A bunch of kids discover another world. There’s maybe a sword, definitely a castle or a tower. I remember the word “white,” but it’s not E.B. White and it’s not...
✿ CopyPasteCharacter.com →
If this existed back when I used emoticons as punctuation… wait, I still do that. ★
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Bookmarks
I organize my bookmarks by categories, but I also have this unsorted bookmarks folder where I keep everything I can’t categorize or that I mean to read later or that I’m too lazy to categorize at the time of bookmarking. This means that I rarely read any of them later and that I have to scroll forever in order to find something that I remember later. You’d think the search...
October 2011
3 posts
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Round-up
Mindy Kaling launched her new website/blog. Fabulous, although I also get bewildered as I often do when I look at consumerist blogs (a pair of shorts that cost $248!). But then you get this:
When I was in my 20′s I thought, okay fine, I’m pushing it, but pink is still technically age-appropriate. Then when I turned 30 I thought: “Oh shit, I love pink so much still. I have to trade this out with...
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Note to self
When <p> is nested in <blockquote> (which leads to the p definition overriding the blockquote def), style blockquote p.
Also, six ways to style blockquotes.
“What a thrill it must have been to see someone, to be somewhere.”
– goodtogether
September 2011
11 posts
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Late, but still
This happened.
I mean, okay, par for the course, et cetera (which is one of the reasons I’m not that into the superhero industry anymore, except for the movie franchises, and I am not hopeful about those either), but this is just ridiculous on a new level.
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The Beach Boys: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice...
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How Tall Is Jake Gyllenhaal? - The Data Issue -... →
Friends, the CelebHeights entry on Jake Gyllenhaal runs to 11 printed pages. It spans 21 months. It is the Infinite Jest of Jake Gyllenhaal–height-related discourse: a maelstrom of heated debate, contested recollections, and esoteric theories of mind-numbing potency.
I laughed throughout the entire article, but I also had the thought “obviously you can just IMDb it,” so. YES, THERE...
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August 2011
5 posts
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The Grey Spaces
This tracking of Christian contemporary music (CCM) is interesting. The article reminds me of how I used to tag along with my dad, who is a pastor, to a Berean Christian Store. Berean sells books, music, clothing, gifts, cards, windchimes, figurines, jewelry, pretty much every kind of Christian merchandise you can think of, inscribed with inspirational messages and crosses and little doves. Like...
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“There’s a lot written about the “magical negro”—the sagely black character in...”
– Guernica / Julianne Escobedo Shepherd: New Film The Help Whitewashes the Civil Rights Struggle into a Heartstring-tugging Hallmark Card
via Lisa Dusenbery at The Rumpus.