February 2012
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"‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown,... →
“Community’s female stars—and one of its writers—sit down for a roundtable discussion about being a woman in comedy, the show’s legacy, slut shaming, and more. Tears are shed!”
Community isn’t a perfect show, but it’s one of the better ones out there.
I came up with a great idea this morning
a-synesthetic-world:
Reblog this if you are a synesthete. That way we can all find each other!!! What do you guys think?
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What Shall He Tell That Son?
A father sees a son nearing manhood.
What shall he tell that son?
‘Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.’
And this might stand him for the storms
and serve him for humdrum and monotony
and guide him amid sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack moments.
‘Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.’
And this too might serve him.
Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.
The growth of a...
anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
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Re-stubbed nearly healed sprained toe last night GODDAMMIT
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Please buy all of these things for my boyfriend... →
Hnng
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“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– From Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
via Brain Pickings
(via jtotheizzoe)
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“Consider this: Kanye West got scorned more and had more lasting damage to his...”
– commenter on chainsawsuit (via nickdouglas)
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“you politely ask me not to die and i promise not to
right from the...”
– K.Squared:
Superbly Situated by Robert Hershon
This is unbelievably wonderful. In the sort of way that makes me want to cry halfway through a laugh.
Just sublime.
(via beenthinking)
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When Scientists Choose Motherhood →
jtotheizzoe:
scipsy:
When Scientists Choose Motherhood
Jennifer was an extremely talented undergraduate, majoring in mathematics and engineering. Her grades and test scores were nearly perfect; her professors saw a bright future for her as an engineering professor and encouraged her to pursue a doctorate. In graduate school, she continued to excel, accumulating high-quality publications,...
“I want to take it all with me. Devise a way to pack a fourteen foot trailer with...”
– HollyGoNightly
“This life is too short for Easy.”
You know what I love? People who write honestly about big things and allow them to be all of what they are. People who buck the pressure to categorize and simplify. People who let things be NOT all prideful and thrilling and good news and...
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Man locks himself and a bunch of photosynthesizing... →
…FOR SCIENCE!
And to demonstrate that plants are vital to human survival!
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“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete.
Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry.
(via jtotheizzoe)
“Now, this may seem strange from someone who writes about pretty dresses (mostly)...”
– You Don’t Have to Be Pretty - A Dress A Day
(It was nice to read this, this morning)
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