January 2010
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The NEW Hypem →
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late night babblelooooooo
Just came home after a ridiculously fun night with some girlfriends and random people I just met. Was just good unadulterated fun and I didn’t even drink! Which further proves my theory that alcohol is merely a catalyst for good times. It’s quite possible to be uninhibited, as one is drunk, dead sober. I’m not sure I can say the same for other recreational drugs, as they may make...
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I really don't want to study right now. Someone...
“Musicians, the Hobnox Audiotool lets you create original electronic music online...”
– creativecommons
THIS IS AWESOME!
I feel sorry for Heidi Montag.
That is all.
“A generational switch is coming,” he said. “The baby boomer audience that has...”
– Conan O’Brien’s Undoing Reflects Media Choices of Young - NYTimes.com
I love how viewing a show on sites like Hulu doesn’t “count” as an “actual” metric. *slaps forehead*
Hey stubborn networks: a paradigm shift has occurred, the tools are securely in place, embrace scattershot viewing habits and...
We don't have to settle. →
writer-a:
Awesome read.
Simple yet wise words - NEVER SETTLE. My old boss told me that once, in reference to love. I don’t usually take love advice from my employer, but that’s something I can accept. In early experiences of love, we females tend to disorient ourselves from any ‘original’ definition we’ve made up of what a man should be to us. We want honesty. We...
Things That at First Seem Funny but are on Closer...
newsweek:
Our Sarah Ball writes on the NYT:
TEEHEE, New York Times. ”Beaver” means vagina, sometimes, which is why you wrote this story—that, plus the fact that the “vulgar alternative meaning” of the word is causing philistine Canadian Web filters to block material containing “beaver” in schools. Poor Canadian National Historical Society, whose 90-year-old history magazine (The Beaver) is...
“newsweek and swiftuprising
thanks for the follow and welcome to my vintage...”
– (via madadmen)
Thanks for posting interesting stuff!
The Haiti Fundraising Lie →
If you’re donating to Haiti relief funds, be smart about where your money is going. Best to donate to smaller organizations who’ve been on the ground for years.
iandurkin:
Why can’t I make a comment on a post w/o having to reblog it? It drives me crazy.
AGREED! Tumblr’s greatest downfall.
Napping my life away.
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I just watched A Serious Man thinking the whole time it was Tom Ford’s directorial debut, correctly A SINGLE MAN. For a second there I thought Ford had some hidden talent! Sorry if that’s an offence to the Coen Brothers. I guess the real answer will come when I really get around to watching A SINGLE MAN.
To those who trespass.
writer-a:
Hillel, a Jewish scholar who lived in the time of the Romans, once uttered the most powerful words I’ve ever heard, passed down over the centuries. He said, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” I had to say it over and over until the immense power of the phrase finally permeated my being.
When?
In five minutes? In...
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.
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The technocracy of law must end.
It’s a North American tradition, though mostly American, to make law and lawyering ‘professional’ in every which way possible to protect our trade. Keep it esoteric, keep your job. Funny that everywhere else in the world, law is NOT a post graduate program. Why is that? Because the law can be a really manipulative process, where those with better trained brains can win BIGGER...
mariah on fiah?
I just watched Oprah’s precious movie project, based on the novel PUSH by SAPPHIRE. Seemed like a real touching story and said to be a contender at the Oscars; admittedly, I kinda just wanted to see how Mariah Carey fared amidst the glowing accolades. I never would have guessed Ms. Carey to ever take out her extensions, remove her caked-on face or sport anything below the knees and over...
aswiftuprising OR a-mun started following you...
seamichael:
Thanks for following :) It makes me feel good about the content I’m throwing up all over the internets and about myself in general when people click follow.
(what is to follow is a tradition I started when I got my first few followers (CULT LEADER!!) I know it was @ramblingromantic who I tried it out on first because he reblogged pleased that he’d been privy to the beginnings of...
Wow, I’ve found some real cranial types on here just bursting at the seams with mental masturbating banter, like ‘Doublethink’ for instance, or even this Soup person (coincidentally, both lawyers). I’m not a academically/politically charged person, but it is refreshing to read thought out posts on something besides whatever the hell I talk about.
So… I’ve...
Five emotions you never knew you had →
victoriaisamess:
Some emotional states only have names in particular languages. Here are some examples:
Fiero (Italian): contented pride in achieving something just for oneself.
Amae (Japanese): the sweet feeling of being dependent on someone else.
Naches (Yiddish): the glow of proud pleasure that only a child can give to its parents.
Schadenfreude (German): the feeling you experience when...
Note to (very limited) followers: You might notice that I have postings as early as March 2009, yet I claim to be new to tumblr. I decided to transplant some old blogs from the past onto here, keeping the dates accurate so as not to confuse potential readers.
So yeah, I really am new to Tumblr.
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dearoldlove:
I didn’t get married by the end of the year as threatened. In fact, I’m not dating a soul.
QUESTS FOR FAME and falling trees....
This tumbling (correct verbage?) thing is a addictive. I don’t mean to sound superficial, but when someone (you’ve never met before) validates your posts with a statement like “SHE POSTS GOOD SHIT”, I feel like they’re validating ME. Aw, shucks!
Despite that, I have to tell myself that I’m not doing this in some pseudo quest for fame or recognition (ok, well in...
What's your tumblr advice?
I just got a great tip from a new follower and I think it speaks for everything in life. My twenties have been riddled with existential questions like “Who am I?” and “How do I not compromise who I am at the cost of (maybe) losing friends?” When I watch TV/movies or see magazines monopolizing our mental constructs of who or what we should be, I worry that the world is...
Why are there so many tumblr sites that start with ‘fuck yeah’?
Another day…
Don’t tell anyone else, but I’m kinda wishing for this ‘international jaunt’ to end already. I want to go home, back to Canada, back to friends, back to familiarity. This might be attributed to the inability to leave my room/books on account of exams for the past week.
Oh humdrum.