November 2009
59 posts
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My new humidifier came and it has visible mist and...
Also, now I trust that it’s actually doing something. This invisible mist shit is suspicious.
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Fans of Rick Warren: I want to know (crossposted...
I want to know how you can support a man who says: “it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations”. He is saying this regarding Ugandan legislation that will impose the death penalty for gays. Or life imprisonment, if they’re lucky.
He won’t say that it’s not okay to execute people for being...
I'm calling it, right now, at 0:26:44 (Big Love,...
I BETTER BE RIGHT.
Edit: 0:31:05 I was wrong. Model is safely on the table. While this is a sad moment for me, kudos to the show.
Hey next time I order pizza remind me to spend the...
Good plan.
yowhatsthehaps:
When you stay home on Saturday nights all by yourself, you get to watch stupid lady movies on the lady movie channel and sometimes they give you ideas.
SO ANYWAY, I’m probably going to move to Italy now.
Or Albany! They’re very similar. At least, we also have…people. And the sky! Same sky! We see the same moon! I’ll share my finger cots with you!
If you've posted anything about me and someone...
I know that during the Tumblr proposal brouhaha someone posted a screenshot of what I said last year. Please delete it. I would love it if you sent it to me, so I can have it, but all of this needs to be off the internet right now.
PLEASE READ. Not kidding.
If you reblogged my post about how I feel about @nostrich and Heather, please delete it. And please also reblog *this*, because some people didn’t see it from me, but from a third party. I mean, IF you reblogged the first one, reblog this. Not just in general. And I’ll be reminding you, but please then delete this in a day or two. Nothing is wrong, really. But thank you.
No questions,...
rrrrred:
ACTUAL THINGS that were said to me, upon my (biological) father’s side of the family finding out about my secret boyfriend of six months:
“Yea! Erica’s not a lesbian!”
“I was starting to wonder about you!”
“He’s not black, is he?”
And my FAVORITE ONE, since it immediately followed those:
“Why didn’t you bring him?!”
But really, he’s not black, is he?
Best. Restaurant. Ever. No, EVER. →
Begging parents to go for breakfast. And lunch. Also, dinner.
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I have eaten two-thirds of a box of Wheat Thins,...
shoesonwrong:
clapifyoulikeme:
All due to sheer boredom. GET ME OUT OF THIS CAR.
TWO HALVES FROM TWO DIFFERENT DONUTS?! Abby, I feel like maybe you need help for your binge eating disorder. We aren’t judging. We are all here for you.
Can I have the other halves?
Half one was very, very dry, probably because god knows how long those donuts had been siting there. Half two—a quarter,...
I have eaten two-thirds of a box of Wheat Thins,...
All due to sheer boredom. GET ME OUT OF THIS CAR.
Heading off for a four hour car ride with mom...
Wish me godspeed, luck, Xanax, etc.
reasons to be thankful, part 3
yodelmachine:
sendchocolate:
inthefade:
(there is no part 1 or 2. it’s just a reference)
I could spend an hour writing a post about the things I am truly thankful for; family, friends, love, health, not being jobless or hungry. It would be full of mush and treacle and I’d probably cry while writing it and you’d probably vomit while reading it. And then I’d ask you all about what you’re...
So I'm catching up on Weeds
(AKA wanted to put something in my queue to hold me over ‘til Avery gets here and we can watch good stuff together.)
And at the end of season 4 there is this horrific torture scene. I watched for maybe three seconds before covering my eyes, uncovered just the bottom of the screen to see the translation of the Spanish, and quickly decided that I didn’t want to see more of that...
I may be a tad obsessed with Broadway musicals at...
swamibooba:
Oh, it’ll subside just like my obsessions with Korean soap operas, 30s slapstick comedies, and orange tic tacs.
ORANGE MOTHERFUCKING TIC TACS.
I have to go to bed right now, so I dream about orange tic tacs, and the days when I could eat a handful of them and not find it sickeningly sweet. Mmmmm.
US sailor cleared of assaulting Sydney prostitute
I know most of you guys are already on board with me here, but I typed it all up for Facebook anyway, so.
1. “Sexual intercourse without consent” (his charge) is RAPE, not “sexual assault”. 2. He ADMITTED to using a “lock down maneuver”. I’m not a military person, but I’m pretty sure that’s excessive force and “actual bodily harm”...
Men-only clubs in Melbourne are to be continued to... →
indefensible:
I’d be up in arms about this, but I think in a society where we allow women-only gyms and gay-only pubs to exist, it’s hard to tell old crusty men that they have to associate with women if they don’t want to do so.
I don’t think there should be any exemptions to anti-discrimination laws, but if you’re going to have exemptions, then this is what you get. Don’t get angry at the...
I need a photo editing program
Currently I have MS Paint and Gimp. And a Photoshop CD somewhere that I stole from my high school but I think will still work.
But I need something in between. Usually I really just want to be able to do a few basic things, but not quite as basic as what Paint gives me, and oh my god Gimp (and Photoshop) takes six hours to open and is not worth it for just, say, a little cropping and adding some...
Next time a "big" movie opens, I will be...
My notes also indicate that the Berlin Airlift...
I feel like maybe I left something out there. Like the part explaining how we airlifted tractors.
The Hebrew word for "shame"
funsizebytes:
clapifyoulikeme:
funsizebytes:
… is “buwsh”
Am I the only one who immediately saw “W. Bush”?
Those Jews are some prescient motherfuckers.
(That’s בּוּשׁfor you übernerds)
It’s been a long time since Hebrew school, but where are you getting the “w” sound? I’m seeing “boosh”? I’m honestly curious, not challenging.
(Note: He’s probably right. It really has been a long...
My notes from history class (early 1920s). Spot...
1. Palmer Raids *A. Mitchell Palmer *Jan 1st, 1920 *6,000+ “subversives” arrested *Held without trial *33 cities, 23 states *2,720 deportations *Not the first raid, but the biggest *All raids together = 10,000 people arrested between 1920 and 1921 *Emma Goldman and Alex Berkman deported *Was the Red Scare justified? *Probably not so much
2. National Origins Act *”I say the class...
The Hebrew word for "shame"
funsizebytes:
… is “buwsh”
Am I the only one who immediately saw “W. Bush”?
Those Jews are some prescient motherfuckers.
(That’s בּוּשׁfor you übernerds)
It’s been a long time since Hebrew school, but where are you getting the “w” sound? I’m seeing “boosh”? I’m honestly curious, not challenging.
(Note: He’s probably right. It really has...
“If by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who...”
– John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (via TransGriot)
Opening gross: 141 million. Average rating on... →
shoesonwrong:
Hey, women: it’s so awesome that we came out in force and showed that just because a movie is targeted at us doesn’t mean it will flop.
But hey, women: maybe next time we could pick something that doesn’t, well, debase our entire gender?
YES. Bravo.
The alphabet according to my browser
A is for Avery, the prettiest of them all,
B is for Blackboard, the homework mall.
C is for Clapifyoulikeme, narcissism at its finest,
D is for Docs, mine-ist.
E is for En.Wikipedia, English search,
F is for Facebook, a lot like a church.
G is for Gmail, it has much appeal,
H is for Hulu, there’s no need to steal.
I is for InfiniteSummer, which I gave up on so early,
J is for...
In other "you didn't want to know that" news: the...
Hey landlord, it's great that heat is included...
My poor toesies.
I'm making a Chanukah wish list. What do I want?
*What POSSIBLE (my parents can’t get Lucy Kate’s lungs to work right, or world peace, or even a good health care bill) things do I want?
**So far I have a netbook (HP Mini 110, on the advice of CNET) and an iPod touch (8GB). Maybe need something less techy. And less expensive.
Winfrey/Winfrey 2012. I'm calling it.
She don’t need no stinkin’ running mate.
“I mean, he’s cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of four is...”
– Lines like that may also have something to do with it.
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Oh, Glee, you're such a terrible show. Why can't I...
Oh, right. Hot girls and a subplot about a baby, who might be given up for adoption, which means maybe I could adopt her, and then I would have a baby, and a musical one at that.
And hot girls.
“Mom: We can visit the Eli Whitney museum.
Kid: Who is he?
Mom: He invented...”
– Overheard in the Office (via rrrrred)
FEMINIST MOMENT:
The cotton gin was invented by Catherine Littlefield Greene. She was, as you may have guessed, a woman, and could not apply for a patent, and was left out of history books forever. Fuck the patriarchy.
Georgia senators are terrible--at drawing →
National Geographic asked senators to draw their home states. Twelve took them up on it. Franken knocked his out of the park. The Georgia contingent, not so much.
Vote again for Courtney!
Note the updated link, and that you can vote ‘til 5 this time:
Courtney Martin, a blogger for feministing.com (I believe it’s currently the largest feminist blog) has reached round FOUR of The Washington Post’s “Next Great Pundit” contest, which gives the winner a column in the Post. You should go vote for her, right now, before 5 pm Eastern time. It would be...
I can't look at Tumblr (or Twitter) after 9 EST
Because I don’t want to know who won ANTM and I can’t watch it til it’s online and oh my god I am a loser.
Thoughts, in order.
1. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
2. Dammit, that’s better than mine was.
3. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.