January 2012
“Your new front-runner is one of your old front runners, Newt Gingrich. I would...”
– Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands - CNN.com
“He asked the one question that is my benchmark for a chivalrous date: he asked...”
– http://baseball-prose.com/
“I’m always counseling against love,” she said. “I tell them not to invest time...”
– Leslie Hawke and David Weiss — Vows - NYTimes.com
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"so... when did you fall in love with hip-hop?"
GIRLS ARE PRETTY: That Was Your Last Relationship... →
girlsareprettyforever:
You’re only 36 but the 14-month romantic relationship you ended yesterday is going to be the last one you’ll ever be party to. While you are feeling optimistic about playing the field and finding “the one,” you shouldn’t. You’ll date many people and you’ll often be the one who decides it’s not right. Either owing to your confidence in yourself or your constantly finding...
We're totally selling a camera, can't you tell?
sexistads:
Kaitlyn - first I thought it was just typically sexist - “oh look hot girls, use our camera to take pictures of hot girls.” Then I actually looked closer and oh I need to take a shower.
This is like those magic eyes posters. I looked at it last week, saw the hand around the camera and thought it was creepy. Like older man hands on the camera. Then today I looked at it and noticed...
QUESTION!
8bitian:
girlsack:
My partner and I are in charge of “snack break” next week for our acting class and I don’t know what to do.
It doesn’t have to be gluten free. I don’t want to be boring and bake cookies/cupcakes : /
What would you want your classmate to bring?
Pie
Fruit and cheese!
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peer pressure
After some positive peer pressure (in the form of online dating IM chats with men who are cyclists), I committed to riding this week. Put my bike on the front of the 136 this morning and I’ll ride home tonight.
“After a lifetime of dating bad boys and not really knowing what she was looking...”
– Jenna Miranda and Mitch Meyers - Vows - NYTimes.com
Sorry NYTimes, but if a couple meets during undergrad and dates for seven years and then marries - she didn’t have a lifetime of dating bad boys. It’s called high school and freshman year.
Thank god, that’s not a lifetime.
“All the while they corresponded almost entirely through letters, which both...”
– Jenna Miranda and Mitch Meyers - Vows - NYTimes.com
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a...
my date is over
I am free to chase my hollywood crush* around Chicago.
*Jason Segel
my hollywood crush is in Chicago
And I didn’t cancel my date to go stalk him. This must mean I’m a grown-up.
Woman Raped by Paramedic —in Ambulance: Cops -... →
8bitian:
iggyjack:
(NEWSER) – Yet another truly horrific Christmas Day story: A Connecticut woman was raped in the wee hours of Dec. 25, say police—by the paramedic who was dispatched to help her after she fell at a holiday party. Police say the 22-year-old woman suffered a head injury and lost consciousness around 3am; an American Medical Response ambulance arrived to take her Yale-New Haven...
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three little resolutions
1. start bike commuting again
2. wear more accessories
3. go on more dates. A lot more dates.
“When did voluntarily becoming a single mom become a gauge of how deeply a woman...”
– Melanie Notkin: Fertility: Should You Have A Baby On Your Own?
“This is kind of my thing. I don’t get my hair done. I don’t go for designer...”
– Winners Wear Yellow: Race$ Co$t Money
And it’s not a terrible thing in the least. (She has an AWESOME racing year lined up and I can’t wait to follow it.)
I didn’t bulk buy admissions, but I did register for a big race — in Euro, which helps with the denial of how much it actually costs. Super...
“Torch was no doctor, but he knew he wanted a life of quality, not just quantity....”
– How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square
“It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t...”
– How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square
“We are social but we are not social media. We are social but we cannot survive...”
– What We Have Going for Us - Drew Zandonella-Stannard at the Hairpin
via annaetc, with much thanks.
(via carry-onbaggage)
December 2011
resolve
onelessminivan:
I’m not into resolutions. I just try to live for myself and my family as best I can and not hurt anybody else in the process. How about you? Planning to lose 10lbs and quit smoking? Or gain 10lbs and start smoking? OLM is headed down to Florida tomorrow for a few days. See y’all in 2012.
I love this postcard! Some of the Hebrew says, “L’shana tovah” which...
122782:
Guys - you can get free photos from walgreens.com with coupon code PRINTNOW today and tomorrow. You’ll get 25 free 4x6s - I just did it. If you want them matte, it’s just $2 to get them shipped to you.
latke party tonight
For any of you Chicago tumblrs with no Eve of the Eve plans, I’m having a latke fry up tonight in Edgewater and the more, the merrier.
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magazine subscriptions
I think I want to subscribe to a few magazines this year and am trying to decide which ones. This is where magazines being on Tumblr and Twitter is working - I might get the Atlantic and Mother Jones and my awareness of these two mags is due entirely to social media.
Any other thoughts for long form journalism that might be worth getting in my mail box?
Young Adult
Here’s the thing - two days later, I’m still thinking about this movie. Roger Ebert had the best review that I’ve seen so far, but he’s a recovering alcoholic and he knows a drunk when he sees one.
A few thoughts….
1. Where were the accents? I’m in Minneapolis a couple times a month and everyone raised in Minneapolis has an accent. The idea that someone could...