June 2009
95 posts
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“I live two lives: One’s in academia and one’s in hot pants.”
– Kyle
“(1) Some do, some don’t.
(2) The differences aren’t very great.
(3) It’s more...”
– Bernard Berelson summarizing his 1964 book Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings. (via sexartandpolitics)
“A man once said that the pinnacle of success is when you’ve finally lost...”
– WWI pilot Eddie Rickenbacker via songwriter Todd Snider, “Money Compliments, Publicity (Song Number Ten)”
“You don’t hold any mystery for me, darling, do you mind? There isn’t...”
– Noël Coward, Private Lives. I will forever regret passing up the opportunity to see Alan Rickman in this role.
Critical thinking & personal style
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about personal style, crticial minds and the formation of both. Critical thinking and personal style aren’t that different, really: both take time to develop, and both are about sifting through information, opinions, and (in the case of style, at least) objects, and selecting or further exploring the ones that appeal to us. Both criticism and style take...
“My father didn’t give me any advice on personal finance. It was considered...”
– Keith Nealy, as quoted by Marketplace. The rest of the story is pretty fascinating, too, but this part jumped out at me because this is how it was in my family, too. A tribute to dads’ money lessons | Marketplace From American Public Media
What I sang at karaoke
I’m a sucker for a goofy classic country song. The spoken-word elements, sappiness, and nonrhyming of Tom T. Hall’s hit “I Love” make me laugh. Also, I do happen to love most of the following.
I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain I love little country streams, sleep without dreams, sunday school in may, And hay And I love you too I...
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“Don’t fool yourself, honey. Loving Michael is always trench warfare.”
– Sharon Gless as the matriarch of a broken family on Burn Notice. Love her.
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“It was just like being on a fast ride at the fun fair
The sort you want to get...”
– Billy Bragg, “Walk Away Renee.” This morning I told Brian, “Careful, I’m not a ride at the fun fair,” and this spoken-word song has been running through my head ever since, like a figment of speech…
The first love poem Brian ever wrote me
Shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art way more babe-alicious than that. Totally. I dig you. And when next i see you, i shall smooch you wetly upon the face to prove it.
—Sent via email, February 11, 2005
Addendum: Written two-thirds of the way into his poetry MFA. [Shh…He’s probably going to make me delete this. ETA: This poem post has been approved by the...
Oh my goodness gracious
I have been having the best thrifting luck recently. And lucky for you, I’m working on a new collaborative blog project to highlight some of my finds (among other things).
For now, I’ll just say: faux bois California Pottery serving set; craymazing vintage game pieces; dozens of slides from the 60’s (including a living-room wedding, a Midwestern college’s homecoming...
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“See how she freaks out when I make a crucifix? She’s the antichrist dog.”
– Brian, holding two crossed rawhide twists in front of Lulu (who was, indeed, freaking out)
“FAIL is over. Fail is dead. Because it marks a lack of human empathy, and...”
– The End of Fail - Anil Dash
The Summer Bet
ucancallmeal:
It all started with a bet. Sam and I had been hearing that some of our friends had turned on their air conditioners pretty early in the summer season. (April, even?)
We bet that the other one of us would turn on the air conditioner first.
We just installed a window unit in the bedroom yesterday. I’ll happily use window units in this apartment (it’s fairly small and...
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Things I'm collecting in jars (or: an update on my...
Old buttons (separated by color)
Bottle caps (separated by brand)
Old beads
Dominoes
Checkers pieces
Chess pieces (two jars: one for wood and one for plastic)
Wooden fruit
Swizzle sticks (by color)
Bingo numbers
Alphabet game tiles (Scrabble and others)
Dice (two jars: one for cellulose casino dice and one for regular black-and-white dice)
Old keys
Foundry letters
Wooden spools
...
Garage sailing
Okay, I love garage sales. Officially. Combine amazing people watching with getting rid of your accumulated junk with making a little cash with the ability to get a tan and drink beer all day and you have my idea of a good time.
So far we’ve had:
a couple of women who outweighed me by a minimum of 75 lbs each who both lamented the fact that my clothes were too large for them
A guy who...
Thank you!
fuckyeahfatchick:
This is a brief interruption to the chubby parade to say thank you to everyone reading our humble tumbles.
As we’ve mentioned before, FYFC is made up of a chubby woman (who is the predominant poster) and the lean man who loves her. We’re both in our 20s and we live in Sydney, Australia.
We created this tumblr for two reasons:
We are both big perves
We were sick of never...
GARAGE SALE-MAGEDDON
Brian and I are hauling some stuff to our friends’ Jon & Jessica’s garage sale tomorrow. Here’s the Facebook event description:
FOR REALS ROCK BOTTOM PRICES on: Clothing Kids clothes! Toys Band T-shirts (Split Lip Rayfield, Softie, The Mess, Cardinals) Musical gear (guitar, drum, etc.) Video Games! (PS2 with Guitar Hero I,II & Encore, Sega Saturn) Art (local art) Art...
An excellent summary of abusive relationships
Earlier I stumbled across the Stanford University Sexual Assault & Relationship Abuse website. Plenty of lengthy books have been written about relationship abuse (some of which I’ve read), but the following sums up the most important points in just a couple of paragraphs, while nailing a few common misperceptions:
What is Relationship Abuse?
Relationship Abuse is a pattern of abusive...
How to follow the 'Curly Girl' method for curly...
Do you suffer from curly hair that’s dry, damaged, frizzy, or uncontrollable? Are you open to trying something new? The curly girl method (also referred to as “no-poo”) is based off the book “Curly Girl” by Lorraine Massey. The nickname “no-poo” alludes to not using a sulfate shampoo, because of sulfates’ power to strip the hair of its natural oils....
“I am about to—or I am going to—die. Either expression is used.”
– Last words of Dominique Bouhours, grammarian (via mercenarywriters)
“I’m gonna rock these heels until I fall over.”
– My friend Emma last night at Fantasy
Googling
My tumblelog is the top search result for tumblr no bra.
I know this because that’s how someone found “trial & error” the other day. I imagine he was disappointed.
We Miss The Boring Stuff Too!
nonotyou:
My wife and I went out to eat at the HyVee Grocery Store last night (a very normal thing to do in Iowa). While we were enjoying watching our little girl throw things on the floor and attempting to keep her from bothering fellow patrons, we drew the attention of an older couple. They asked us about her age and, noting that she was clearly not biologically related to either of us, about...
Emily: Will you take Lulu [the dog] out? I'm not wearing any pants.
Brian: You're just one pair of pants away from being pantsed, my pantsless friend.
