November 2011
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The Friend Zone | Thought Catalog →
“The Friend Zone is both stigmatized and empathized as a type of relationship experienced between a usually attractive female (known herein as Subjectₓ) and her futile courter, an earnest male (herein Partnerₒ) who desires a romantic relationship with her, specifically to engage in acts by which such status is defined, but “settles” for a platonic[1] friendship, which shall be referred to...
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Tell-tale signs that I don't want to do my work.
I clean my room.
I start and finish a book within a week.
I develop the patience to cook a lot of food.
I suddenly want to watch all the Web Exclusives on Hulu.
I take a four-hour procrastination nap.
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“His hands were large. They looked neither strong nor competent nor sensitive.”
– J.D. Salinger (“Just Before the War with the Eskimos”)
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Also.
E: i drove past this area of LA
E: and i saw tents
E: and they were all in a line
E: and i thought it was occupy
E: but then it was for breaking dawn
E: a part of me died.
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Live-texting Black Friday.
M: I hate black Friday. My mom conned me into coming out here for her. It is freezing and there are poor people everywhere. I hate this.
M: There are so many immigrants here. I swear that half of Bombay is behind me.
M: Fuck this shit. I'm at Best Buy for some TV. there are at least 200 people in front of me. It's not happening.
M: Someone is taking a video and just shouted Occupy Best Buy. I'm done.
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Harold McGee, Thanksgiving Tip
Harold McGee: Take the bird out ahead of time and let the legs warm up a little bit while you keep the breasts covered with ice packs. That way, you keep the breasts cold. The legs warm up by maybe 10, 20 degrees, and that way, when you put the bird in the oven, you've already built in a temperature differential. The breasts are going to end up, at a given time, less-cooked than the legs. And that's exactly what you want.
Terry Gross: Wow. That is going to look a little weird.
Harold McGee: It looks weird, yeah, to begin with, especially if you use an Ace bandage to hold the ice packs in place, because they're kind of slippery. And - so that's what I do. So, yeah, it does look a little peculiar. But what you care about is what the bird looks like when it comes out.
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The Umbrella Man | NYTimes.com | Op-Docs →
“On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.”
NYTimes.com, let us embed your videos!
Also, this thought from the video:
… [I]n historical research, there may be a dimension similar to the quantum dimension in physical reality. If you put...
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And ... I'm home for Thanksgiving.
Brother: I'm going to eat your face with my claws!
Me: Ow.
Brother: Oh. Sorry.
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Best of #junkfoodnovels (so far)
wwnorton:
The Dairie Queene
How Green Was My Slurpee
The Sound and The McFlurry
The Four ButterFingers of Death
A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Manwich
Skittlemarch
Remains of the Danish
Where The Mild Wings Are
There are too many outstanding entries to count, and with Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie participating the bar is high. Jump in here.
Guys, society is getting so much...
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Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses... →
npr:
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence
Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces
There’s more….
“Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still Be Expected to Perform Domestic Labor During the ‘Second Shift’) Like That”
Very much very closely...
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“Your spiritual awakening sounds more like a hangover in the morning.”
– Professor Schuman, reading my paper for class (via thewoolymammoth)
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“Mr. Bloomberg met daily with several deputies and commissioners, and as more...”
– Police Oust Occupy Wall Street Protesters at Zuccotti Park - NYTimes.com
theawl:
This meme, of journalists describing elected officials (or, nonsensically, municipalities) as moving to dismantle these protests because their “patience wore thin” is particularly irksome. Because, and any competent...
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What Women Want: Porn and the Frontier of Female... →
toasterwaffles:
Did you ever think GOOD would lead you down cute Jewish dude Internet porn rabbit holes?
Kids these days.
When I was an adolescent girl I lusted after Rhett Butler and the male leads of Disney Channel movies. Just sayin’.
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Another View: The Science and Strategy of College... →
(NYTimes.com)
“NEW HAVEN — Last May, one of the largest hedge funds in the world paid me $100 to eat gourmet popcorn and explain why I wasn’t applying for one of its (lucrative!) jobs. As I sat in a hotel suite with six other Yale students – musicians, biologists, dramatists, other-ists – and answered questions about my future plans, I got this uneasy feeling that the man in the beautiful...
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“This was too much. He hadn’t cried after the surgeries or during the...”
– George Saunders (“Tenth of December”)
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“Terry Gross on the mic, I’m the Talk of the Nation.”
– That’s rapper Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, on a track from his album Camp. You can listen to the full album here. (via nprfreshair)
Sort of reminds me of this as well.
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“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via fecastleberry)
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What happened to irony? →
(from Salon.com)
“It’s not a question of, ‘Like, I’m not going to be attached to anything,’ or, ‘I’m going to show how detached I am.’ It’s actually quite the opposite. In its primary use, irony is a sign of how much things can matter and ought to matter and what they really ought to be like. ”
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“A box made out of leaves.
What else was in the woods? A heart, closing....”
– Richard Siken (“Details in the Wood”)
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“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty one and even twenty three...”
– Joan Didion (“Goodbye To All That”) (via xelvinn) [interview here] (via nprfreshair)
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Excellent.
A: ivanhoe was a cookie
October 2011
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“Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees.”
– Howard Nemerov (“Learning the Trees”) (via proustitute) 