May 2013
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Lessons learned.
K: i had the reverse problem, but i'm pretty sure I had it down by the time i had been told SIX OR SEVEN TIMES
S: people are stupid
S: #1 thing learned this year
S: *people don't give a fuck and therefore seem stupid
K: yes, this is true
S: ugh what a lesson
S: hand delivered
S: from life's ass
S: into my brain
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the Rumblr: My first recorded journal entry is... →
My first recorded journal entry is from 1998, when I was in third grade. It’s the only entry in the entire book, right there on the front page, transcribed after a muddy school field trip to Muir Woods. It begins:
When it rains the mushrooms magically appear! OR SO PEOPLE THINK. Banana slugs have eyes on their tentacles and tongues covered in teeth. They can smell a mushroom from THIRTY FEET...
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Watchimwithkanye:
The Number 1 Best Cold Open Of The Office.
Remember when The Office landed the coveted post-Super Bowl slot? It was a breath of fresh air after several years of hour long dramas (even though Kyle Chandler on Grey’s Anatomy was riveting). Sometimes you just want to laugh after watching your favorite team lose the most coveted game of football. And the show delivered show much...
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“Police in Kentucky say Trevor Runyon slipped into a supermarket and waited for...”
– NPR (via ohitsyou)
NPR, with the hard-hitting journalism. All day every day.
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“One improves by learning to be productively ashamed of who one currently is.”
– Alain de Botton
(via kateoplis)
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guys: uh why do girls care so much about being skinny? it's so annoying
guys: ew fat chicks
guys: why do girls care so much about shopping and romance and nail polish lol so annoying
guys: ew crazy butch lesbian manly feminazis why can't they act more feminine lol
guys: why do girls wear makeup they look so much better without it
guys: oh i'm so sorry are you sick? tired? dying?
guys: haha girls suck at math/science/sports
guys: a girl who does math/science/sports? well? get back in the kitchen that stuffs not gonna get you a husband
guys: why are girls so sensitive when we look at their boobs or something c'mon with that top you're asking for it
guys: oh my god a gay guy just hit on me how disgusting what a creeper doesn't he have any boundaries?
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Finals Week To-Do List
thedigitalrhetoric:
Write a bunch
Study hard
Don’t eat real food
Have nervous breakdown
Cry
Procrastinate
Pretend like there’s nothing pressing to do
Stare at words until they no longer make sense
Forget how to make words
Scream obscenities at inanimate objects
I have accomplished all but two of these things.
Sometimes I’m so glad to be done with school.
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“Similarly, I did not know that a person at my office was black until I asked...”
– Christopher Man (“I Don’t See Race” | McSweeney’s)
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“Visual artists, poets, and musicians are releasing free content online faster...”
– Brad Troemel, Athletic Aesthetics (via photographsonthebrain)
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“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you...”
– The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)
Truth bomb if I ever saw one.
(via ikenbot)
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My new address.
A: whatevs i am not giving a shit
A: we will live in a hut in the vagina mountain, where no mansplainer rape apologist ever set his foot
S: haha the vagina mountain
S: can we live on the clit of vagina mountain?
A: i am fairly certain this is where most people think i live
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ohitsyou:
I just looked through this and I don’t think I blinked even once.
Peruvian breakfast I think I love you.
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“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
– Clementine Paddleford (via givemeajobplease)
p.s. now that’s a tumblr name i can get behind.
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“This is also, I’d argue, why Nick is attracted to in Gatsby. It’s...”
– Noah Berlatsky (“The Great Gatsby Movie Needed to Be More Gay” | The Atlantic)
Actually I think I’m enjoying these nuanced readings of Gatsby more than I will enjoy the film.
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Love musings.
W: Do you fall out of love, really? I mean, I realise it slows down and dims, but does it actually go away for you?
S: i think the urgency definitely does, you know like the fluttery. the fluttery goes away.
W: Yes, I know the urgency does, but the feeling itself, of thinking of them without really expecting to, going over old nostalgia, the whole tu-me-manques bit--do you ever get to the point where it's like "that's nice, dear, but that was another country, and besides, the wench is dead"?
S: i think so, but that's part of the urgency to me. it just becomes pleasant to know them, but you don't really feel like you're missing out on anything by not being around them all the time.
S: i mean i dunno. eventually the effort of thinking about them outweighs the good feelings. you know it's like a scratch-n-sniff that's been scratched too much.
Wendy: Right.... Sometimes I think you're a romantic and then you use actual words to describe feelings to me and I look at the world and I wonder who ever let you near a keyboard.
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“It’s hard to imagine that there was a time I didn’t know her; that there are...”
– Lindsay King-Miller (“Hold On to What You’ve Got” | The Rumpus)
Oh look it’s time for my Monday afternoon cry.
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“The romance of narrative is perpetually at odds with reality,” Mr. Roth wrote....”
– A White Road and an Ambiguous Narrative (via photographsonthebrain)
Also this:
These organized narratives help us soothe our anxieties about the world’s senselessness and give order to its complexities. But in Mr. Roth’s view, they “are often tired myths — ones that numb us to more discomfiting...
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[[medialist.]] →
In which some thoughts are thought about new media, culture, and society. I’m a college grad teaching in Bulgaria, i.e. I spend half my time in bed with my cat in my lap. I like talking about how technology is making us into weirdos.
It’s spring and it’s the season of fertility and bunnies and flowers and new life! To celebrate, I birthed … a new blog. I thought I should...
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“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love...”
– Finn Butler (via excessivebookshelf)
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“…I don’t even really care about sentences anymore, I just want to get this story...”
– Jami Attenberg (via rachelfershleiser)
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Researching "Virgin Diaries."
A: Wow, they all look like virgins.
S: What does a virgin look like?!
A: They're all like really ugly.
A: They're not people you would want to have sex with.
A: They're all really unappealing.
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““Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re...”
– Assata (via michellehuxtable)
I tell my students this every single semester.
(via notesofanativesister)
Before being exposed to the idea of a school-to-prison pipeline, I had such blind trust in the justice of the legal system. Can’t believe this is written into the Constitution - the idea...
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“And stop guarding that heart! (This is true for both writers and contestants on...”
– Ask the Writing Teacher: A Spork in the Road (via millionsmillions)
Amy Hempel is god.
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“These same friends are also all good people who have told me how they are...”
– Yellow Peril And The American Dream by Catherine Chung, and powerful and incisive essay about racism, white privilege, and how even the best of intentions can’t erase centuries of institutionalized prejudice. (via therumpus)
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“One of the problems with the idea that America needs a ‘Conversation On Race’ is...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)
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“The modern ‘epidemics’ of teen pregnancy and obesity can be understood as a...”
– This is why Sayantani DasGupta remains one of my favorite thinkers/writers. This post on the New York City’s “shame-and-blame” teen pregnancy and anti-obesity campaigns dig deep into the racism and classism of the city’s efforts. Check out the rest of the post on the R today! (via racialicious)
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Poetry
Alfred Kreymborg
Ladislaw the critic is five feet six inches high, which means that his eyes are five feet two inches from the ground, which means, if you read him your poem, and his eyes lift to five feet and a trifle more than two inches, what you have done is Poetry— should his eyes remain at five feet two inches, you have perpetrated prose, and do his eyes stoop —which Heaven...
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“… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of...”
– Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via seraphmachine)
There’s not much wrong with the world that can’t be explained by this.
(via aatombomb)
April 2013
30 posts
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“How much more unhappy are graduate students than other people? (About fifty-four...”
– Joshua Rothman (“The Impossible Decision” | The New Yorker)
Well.
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Structural inequalities.
A: 1% of the people get 90% of the sex! It's not fair!
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On motherhood.
S: i don't think every mother has this moment when she's like 'omg i love my child' the first time she sees its slimy face.
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“In America after 9/11, we made a deal with the devil, or with Dick Cheney, which...”
– Andrew O’Hehir (“How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain” | Salon)
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“I’m telling you guys, we’re never going to fucking get anywhere—if you want to...”
– Junot Díaz [x] (via pocproblems)
Remembering the phrase “economy of attraction to white supremacy.” 