February 2012
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softsilence:
“Authorities say the motives of the young woman inside the bank are as yet unclear, but despite the fact that she has taken over fifteen hostages, her only demands as of hour five of this standoff situation have been “send pizza”“
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I am just
abloodymess:
going to start yelling “Help me Gamera!” whenever I get stressed or angry.
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“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
waldosia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
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“I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started squealing...”
– David Byrne. (via amajor7)
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Ryan Hates This: apcalvin42: back left litz: The... →
apcalvin42:
back left litz: The great irony of being a teenage Hold Steady fan was that these…
backleftlitz:
The great irony of being a teenage Hold Steady fan was that these songs that glamorized being young and prone to fucking up/getting fucked up were being sung in retrospect,…
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Understand Groundhog Day
fakescience:
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Church of the gilded burrito
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January 2012
60 posts
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can’t stop watching “Cake Boss” send help
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Marginalia
Billy Collins
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you, Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien, they seem to say, I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive - “Nonsense.” “Please!”...
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1, 2, 3, 4 - Who's Punk? What's the score?... →
tokyoswoon:
life rules sometimes
!!!!!!!
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.”
For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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I mostly always just want to listen to records and...
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T-11 hours.
If not by faith, then by the sword!
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“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is...”
– Augustine Birrell (via booksandnerds)
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