January 2012
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How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong...
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
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Mary Robinette Kowal challenges you to write a... →
1. In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch. 2. Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items. Feeling intimidated? It’s fewer words than NaNoWriMo and I know how many of you do that. Can you mail a letter a day?
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Catch a Body
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do believe that if
your mother looks radiant in...
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It’s odd that she has come to represent, for some, a kind of soulless hipster...
– Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding
(via misserinmarie)
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Sometimes in life, I feel it’s important, as we are borne along by a constant...
– John Finnemore (at http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.com/)
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glitterbubbles:
kickdrumheart:
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leupagus:
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One of my very favorite things about being southern is saying a nice “bless your heart” that’s 50/50 patronizing and sympathetic.
… OK I call shenanigans, because every Southerner I know uses it 100/0 patronizing and sympathetic.
You are correct. Nobody who uses “bless your heart” ever actually means it,...
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A-Z End of Year Tag Meme
A: above all things I believe in mercy
B: But I believe in love and I know you do too
C: CAPS LOCK DOESN’T LIE
D: donkeys are my goats
E: every day is wino day
F: FOR WOCK AND WOLL
G: girls I better see you dancing to this I MEAN IT
H: HI I APPRECIATE YOU
I: if it’s worth drinking it’s worth drinking in pints
J: joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware
K: keep calm...
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December 2011
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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
– Elizabeth Taylor
(via imfantasyparade)
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glitterbubbles replied to your photo: (via Set of Three Hand Painted Christmas Holiday… I thought they were gnomes and was waiting for the gnomeboner tag. but they look very much like the Snow White dwarves. also I LOVE YOU. xoxoxo
I’ve really never had an occasion to use the gnomeboner tag. To be honest, the idea kind of freaks me out, from a physical puzzle standpoint (heh....
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