February 2009
213 posts
January 2009
246 posts
“Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans...”
– Buddy Cole
Semi-related: alt.support.eating-disord is ALL...
I just dreamt that Jack Donaghy was my boss?
I had done something wrong (I thought it was my first day but apparently it was three weeks in and I was supposed to actually have done something) and he screamed at me for a few hours before I asked him to just fire me, please, or stop shouting, whereupon I was handed a pink slip.
closertotheocean:
the mountain goats -...
Smoking has started to make me go lightheaded.
What the fuck? I’ve even been eating. Wtf is this shit.
So, I'm watching Oprah for the first time in my...
Conclusion: Not that great.
Dreamt that I went to visit him in LA.
Fuck you, subconscious. FUCK. YOU.
New Math -- 1998, Rocket Bar St. Louis. →
god damnit... New Math is one of my favorite old...
closertotheocean:
if you ever get money, print books if you ever get money, print books if nobody reads them, that’s ok if nobody hears what you have to say, that’s ok if you sell a few books, buy land if you sell a few books, buy land if no one come to visit you that’s all right if no one comes to visit you and you get lonely at night, that’s all right when you’ve built up your small...
Isles — Fleet Foxes
50% of HFCS sampled tested positive for MERCURY →
closertotheocean:
iveneverheardofyou:
SO MUCH FOR THOSE ADS ABOUT HOW FINE IT IS
Reason one million why cooking your own food is awesome — YOU NEVER HAVE TO USE HFCS.
On that note— brown sugar is worse than white sugar, guys. It looks more natural, but it’s actually white sugar MIXED WITH CORN SYRUP. No good!
“Many people believe that serial killers cannot maintain careers or...”
– From the fascinating essay “Could You Marry a Serial Killer?” by Dr. Katherine Ramsland, seen in The Graveyard Shift blog (via iveneverheardofyou)
Is it wrong that this just gets me really excited for the next season of Dexter?
“Oh love
As long as you can love
Oh love
As long as you may love
The hour...”
– -Ferdinand Freiligrath
translated by god knows who.
Best movie ever?
iveneverheardofyou:
CRAZY LOVE
Um I want to see that. A LOT.
“Oh! love while Love is left to thee;
Oh! Love while Love is yet thine own;
The...”
– Freiligrath, p. 164.
I’ll post a more modern version if I can — though I prefer it this has a charm.
“O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst!
O lieb, so lang du lieben magst!
Die Stunde...”
– O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst, Freiligrath
Court: Christian school can expel lesbian students →
ciao-ciao:
closertotheocean:
(by way of Cassy)
Awesome, cause obviously you can’t be Christian and gay.
UGH THIS SHIT MAKES ME SO SO ANGRY. Some of the most incredible, warm, compassionate clergy I’ve known have been gay/lesbian/trans/queer folks. I absolutely don’t get it.
It also makes me nervous, seeing as I’m gay and work for the Catholic church.
I was actually going to ask about that...
What your birthday says about you: →
closertotheocean:
iveneverheardofyou:
They have considerable nervous energy that can manifest itself as ill temper.
TRUE
(via lindsayneedscoffee via sinkships)
Geminis born June 5 believe in the natural goodness of the world around them. They are more than optimistic — they are altruists who draw their inspiration from everyday miracles. They often exhibit a take-charge attitude that may...
“what we do in the dark has no hands. no
crossover effect, no good-bye kiss...”
– Marty McConnel.
I hate how "health" seems to have become...
That is a really bad way or phrasing it but there you go.
closertotheocean:
girlindc:
International...
closertotheocean:
incurable:
girlindc:
The...
Jesus Christ Jimmy Carter is adorable.
He reminds me of my dead granddad.
So I have a baking blog now.
Email me if you want the link — because I plan on sharing it with family I’m not going to post it here.
I thought the gas repair guy was saying hello to...
Major disappointment.
Also, does anyone know how to rip tracks from...
You helped with my similar youtube problem, so. For the record, Macbook running X.5.6.
P.S. Say the Last Ripper and I may maul you because I didn’t just waste a few hours trying it on every computer in the house or anything.
Honestly right now I just want to launch myself at...
Seriously. I thought I had trained myself out of the violent urges but apparently not.
ryanluikens:
oiga: tom waits, “downtown...
Skills of questionable practicality I have...
spinning sugar.
making bagels.
piping passable icing borders.