December 2011
7 posts
“Reverse is his default gear now, as made clear by his advice to would-be...”
– The Believer - Doubling in the Middle
I apparently have the beginnings of a palindromist. Ever since I read about a charecter (I think in Babysitter’s Club, of course) who reversed words as a kind of trick, its been a weird mental tick of mine to do this.
Less lately. Thinking about...
Two Things:
1) HELP- does anyone remember that really lovely blog post that made a story out of “Party in the USA” and it went a little bit viral? I read it and loved it and want to re-read it but can’t find it saved in my blog or my delicious. I am getting very agitated.
2) After two years of my theme annoying me because the “p” in Swamp was touching the top of my about box,...
A Girl You Should Date « nona merah →
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
SEC Secedes from the United States - SportsPickle... →
SEC Football > All Other Football.
End. Of. Story.
“Nerds are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed...”
– John Green (via thatluciegirl)
November 2011
14 posts
This is why I never post to my blog anymore:
Please see all of my thoughts about schools, teaching and the amazingness of the children in the below videos, as spoken by other people and captured by the awesome team at The Daily:
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/11/26/112611-news-new-orleans-day-one-1-5/
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/11/27/112711-news-new-orleans-day-two-1-3/
I am so immensely humbled every day by the amazing people I...
Eight Foods You Should Stock Up On Before Climate... →
CLIMATE CHANGE IS TAKING ALL THE GOOD THINGS IN THE WORLD. ACK!
No but seriously, THIS IS ALL THE GOOD FOOD. Screw you climate change!
October 2011
15 posts
“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
– Steve Jobs’s final words.
This is absolutely beautiful. I’m crying very hard right now.
(newsweek:mandigray:adultlifetaketwo)
This was lovely.
“I thought we were getting robbed at 5:30 AM this morning. And then I realized...”
– Nicole and I have disparate schedules. :)
4 tags
“The fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it...”
– Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker
The Phantom Tollbooth is a forever love. One of the best birthday presents ever received and Mary is due for her own copy soon I think!
1 tag
Mean Girls in on TV
Thoughts:
1) Oh, Tina Fey. I LOVE YOU.
2) Rachel McAdams, perfection.
3) Why isn’t Aaron Samuels more famous? He’s so cute! He’s still so cute!
4) Lindsay Lohan. Ah, so promising. And so squandered.
5) SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE.
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's... →
I am exceedingly tickled by this. Since I, you know, teach history.
“If there’s any way at all way to shit the bed on this one, you can bet...”
– Nervous American Voters Worried About Botching Another Election | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
I should be less excited about seeing Gainesville mentioned offhanded in an Onion Article. BUT I AM NOT.
1 tag
September 2011
7 posts
Mindy Kaling: “Flick Chicks” : The New Yorker →
The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All
I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career...
6 tags
“A brief survey of IMDb indicates that “Dreams” is the Cranberries...”
– Nostalgia Fact-Check: How Does the Cranberries’ Everybody Else Is Doing It … Hold Up? — Vulture
I absolutely will always remember this song as the song for the Babysitter’s Club trailer. Do you know how much I loved that movie?
A lot. The answer is a lot.
And oh my goodness,...
You Have One New Death | The Hairpin →
This post speaks some major “the way we live now” truth.
August 2011
23 posts
1 tag
“Have a real picture of yourself as a profile pic. I need to know what you look...”
– Master the Delicate Art of Social Media Etiquette: Details
“Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents. The only significant...”
– Beloit College Mindset List: For the College Class of 2015,
I look forward to this pop culture list every year.
(via girlwithalessonplan)
7 tags
Watchchasingcoolness:
newwavecrashing:
Elvis Costello on Saturday Night Live.
This came up in conversation the other day when I mentioned that Elvis Costello was banned from SNL back in the day.
Costello = autoreblog.
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Generation F*cked →
As the generational divide deepens, it makes sense for the older generations to stake their claim now, while they have the power of the state on their side. Aside from handing out more than 10,000 Asbos (Antisocial Behaviour Orders, a cross between a human parking ticket and the sort of condemned notice you sometimes see on the walls of derelict buildings), the petty misanthropy that bans...