September 2011
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Oh hey, Tumblr friends
how are things?
August 2011
15 posts
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“Hey, how’s it going? Mind if I sidle up? I saw you over here sitting alone and I...”
– Jesse Eisenberg, “A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar”
Oh McSweeny’s, you are so fun.
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Otters have more hair in a single inch than is on...
Things I learn watching “Big Sur”
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via paradoxicalsentiments)
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Mixed Feelings
So you know that feeling when you experience daylight on a weekday for the first time in who knows how long (and the sunshine feels amazing compared to cold fluorescent office lights) BUT the reason you are looking at the sun-dappled sidewalks of Echo Park at 9:55 on a Monday is because you and your place of employment decided to part ways?
Yeah. Mixed feelings.
Anybody hiring in Los Angeles?
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Today in Typos That I Wish Were Real Words:...
As in, “baby I swear I didn’t take that picture, my phone must have saved it automagically”
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“People like Coldplay and voting for the Nazis. You can’t trust people.”
– Superhans (via professionallush)
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My favorite intern just made me a box fort in the...
I wish I had the authority to offer extra credit for extreme dedication to awesomeness
July 2011
34 posts
My ears are still ringing, my body is absolutely...
Audiotistic 2011 was a massive success.
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"she had always wanted words, she loved them; grew...
—Michael Ondaatje
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“(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(What are your ghosts like?)...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, from Everything is Illuminated
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“If you listen, you can hear it.
The city, it sings.
If you stand quietly, at...”
– Jon McGregor, from If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
cailin-croga asked: 6, 18, 21, 28
The most original one I’ve seen in a while. →
mikeypizzle:
walex:
explodeontheroad:
carnivalforsuperheroes:
Drop one/several in my ask!
Whats your middle name?
How big is your bed?
What are you listening to right now?
What are the last 4 digits in your cellphone number?
What was the last thing you ate?
Last person you hugged?
How is the weather right now?
Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
What is the first...
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Today one of the interns discovered me napping in...
He’ll have to either be sworn to secrecy or killed
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Walls (Circus) - Tom Petty
I’m 45% sure...
Romeo + Juliet
poemsvsvolcano:
Kissing on ecstasy > books. SWD
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I've only just realized why I spent this weekend...
I have become a chick cliche of the most ridiculous sort.
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If LA's #1 oldies radio station is to be believed,...
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
Dancin’ in the Moonlight
Summer Breeze
Take On Me*
Any and all songs by Michael Jackson*
*Point of interest: when did the 80s get included in the “oldies” categories? Aren’t there already stations that play “the best of the 80s, 90s and today”?
downbutnotoutletters sounds like a blog about
bestrooftalkever:
People who have fallen on tough times, but can still avoid shopping at outlet malls.
writingsarah asked: Serendipitous, Effervescent, Luscious, Alluring...
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100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language →
I love denoument, incipient, palimpsest & lissome, my brother’s favorite is pyrrhic.
What are your favorites?
Is there ever a polite way to tell your co-worker...
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Today I successfully used Mexican slang in...
Me: ...So, did that just up my street cred? Or is street cred like Fight Club where you can't talk about street cred?
Boyfriend: Um, what street cred?
Me: You mean I don't have ANY? Is this a white thing?
Boyfriend: Yeah, white girl problems
Me: I'm gonna go tweet about it.
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On Saturday we washed countless cars & raised...
And just like that, my Anne Frank-like faith in the deep-down goodness of humanity is restored.
“And, before me, the lake is drowned in the sunset. The distant mountains are...”
– Katherine Mansfield, 1907, from her Notebooks (via katherine-mansfield)
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Really irritating texts that sound like they're...
(323): For the fourth time will you PLEASE wash your dish in the sink?
(yeah, that says dish, singular. My roommate is really good at NOT re-directing his unrelated stress towards me)
ITS NATIONAL KISSING DAY & NATIONAL FRIED CHICKEN...
todishevelthehair:
GRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
This is how I feel.
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Heartbreaker - MSTRKRFT ft. John Legend
John...