May 2010
3 posts
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April 2010
10 posts
Dorianisms: Requesting advice →
So, I’ve been having trouble breathing for the last couple of days—this is something that crops up occasionally. It just feels like the upper portion of my chest (like, ribcage up) won’t expand fully. It’s not really harmful (I’m in no danger of actually being unable to breathe, just restricted…
Reblog for long answer— That sounds a lot like my asthma, actually. I don’t do...
SHOES
rhionna:
About: My name is Rhionna. I’m a tattoo artist that was recently diagnosed with a condition known as brittle diabetes. It has caused a lot of stress on my body, and at the age of 27 I am in stage two kidney failure. In addition to being quite ill, I do not have health insurance. I am unable to work because of dangerous blood sugar and keytones in my blood stream which both causes...
Dumblr Bumblr Tumblr: Spokeo.com Has Info on You. ... →
And it’s probably more than you’re comfortable having out there:
…
This is why I do not use my real name online unless it’s absolutely necessary, i.e. in making a purchase. And even with that? Even with my legendary extreme paranoia?—Yeah. They got me. They got me good.
Haah. It’s only a matter of time, obvs, but I was hugely relieved by my own results. They had my house address...
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“No baseball fan has to explain his mania to any other baseball fan. They are a...”
– John K. Hutchens (via randomsox)
So, all baseball fans are axiomatically dudes? Good to know.
“so if i want to drink alone dressed like a pirate
or look like a dyke
or wear...”
– lauredhel | Posted without comment, new song by Amanda Palmer (via lauredhel)
I … what … she just … NO.
Huh. That’s the first time she’s managed to appropriate me (a queer person), rather than my friends (POC, PWD, etc.)
I don’t think you get to use that one, AFP. I’m...
I've been writing for twelve hours... time for a...
Is this too informal??
It’s impossible to read about cyperpunk without encountering Cartesian dualism and the (in?)separability of body and mind—I’m pleased to have discharged my obligatory mention of the term so early in the paper.
Honestly I’m as nervous about the (in?)separability as I am about the quip. It’s fast, it’s accurate, it’s easy, surely I can’t...
annaoverseas:
ihatethismess:
rubbingtheimpossibletoburst:
seaponies:
1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
“And a jay bird lands there on the head of the...
Oh yeeeeeah!
A friend of mine has been going out of his way to give super-long, super-cuddly hugs lately, or to say a heartfelt hello every time he saw me. I noticed the uptick in affection and was feeling all warm and fuzzy about it, but also kind of confused. They were definitely correlated with a good, deep conversation we’d had, but he’d seemed OK after that— and these weren’t...
kaninchenzero:
I daydream about a time when asking “Is it a boy or a girl?” would be an enormous social blunder that draws stares and murmured opprobrium from passers-by. One could respond, in a suitably chill tone, “We don’t know yet; xe hasn’t said.”
Leaving aside the rest… what a beautiful daydream!
March 2010
19 posts
How to Make American Teens Smarter →
dorianisms:
ouyangdan:
dorianisms:
notemily:
bringmethathorizon: obsessionful: infoneer-pulse:
What do American kids read? From middle school through 12th grade, the answer is consistent: the Twilight and Harry Potter series, with a little bit of Romeo and Juliet and Holocaust literature sprinkled in. The average reading level of the top 20 books read by U.S. high school students is...
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for the record
The things I cleaned out of the common room:
a brown coffee mug
a hand-painted white coffee mug
seven plastic forks
a can of polycrilic, whatever that is
a small blue dorm hoodie
a large black dorm hoodie
three and a half bagels
a Celestine Reef magic card
a large square of fuzzy pink fabric
an empty photo album
a blunt pencil with no eraser
a paperback entitled “Humanity at...
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for cereal?
I think my least favourite part of everybody else having time to hang out and have fun while I am at the library working, is the part where I come back from the library at 1:30am and the common room is a total mess and I am clearly the only one to clean it up.
Seriously, everyone I know is camping tonight, and I am the only one present on this floor of the dorm tonight. Only I can clean! I...
why?
kaninchenzero:
eloriane:
tumblr, why, when I click “reblog” on a post, do you never reblog the actual text I am trying to reply to? I guess it’s my fault for only reblogging long things, but I always end up copy-pasting. Why not just reblog everything and let me cut it down myself? Your computer brain can’t tell what’s important in a conversation! It is not as smart as my tipsy but human...
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ALSO
Why is it that the “real games” for “real gamers” seem to have WANTON MURDER as a requirement?! Oh wait, I know why! It’s because “real gamers” is code for “dude gamers”! And only dudes can enjoy WANTON MURDER for fun. That is dudes! WANTON MURDER! Masculinity! Why do dudes put up with it!
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Sadybusiness: For the record! →
I was not specifically calling for comics submissions! Because like now we have LOTS of those. (And: People who read Tiger Beatdown and/or my Tumblr really like comics, POINT CONFIRMED.) I was just illustrating a point, which is: Write in about something that is (a) of interest to our readers, and…
“International issues” - I can talk about how pissy it makes me to be a...
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why?
tumblr, why, when I click “reblog” on a post, do you never reblog the actual text I am trying to reply to? I guess it’s my fault for only reblogging long things, but I always end up copy-pasting. Why not just reblog everything and let me cut it down myself? Your computer brain can’t tell what’s important in a conversation! It is not as smart as my tipsy but human...
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Adventures of an Anna: Teaching Thoughts →
annaoverseas:
whatwillsuffice:
The data show that faculty members are more likely to “compel” men than women to speak in class by calling on those who do not volunteer. The average number of times that a male student is asked to speak without volunteering (“cold calling”) is 17% higher than the average number of times that a female student is asked to speak without volunteering (Z...
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OK, let's talk about Touch of Evil
So, Quinlan (a cop) has been planting evidence to make it easier to convict the people that his “hunches” tell him have committed murder. All of these people, we find out, have protested their innocence all the way to the electric chair. In the film itself, we see him plant evidence to frame Sanchez for the murder of Sanchez’s girlfriend’s father and the father’s...
“I’d like to point out that Ab Aeterno is NOT Spanish. It doesn’t take a genius...”
– Something of a Latin expert here: ab aeterno is most definitely Latin. It would mean literally “from eternity,” which can probably mean “since forever.”
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blame it
I was at a big cat conservation center today shooting a tour video, and before we could go anywhere we had to hear a safety talk. It was, basically, How Not To Get Mauled By Tigers. You know, keep all body parts on the correct side of the safety rope, don’t make sudden movements or loud noises, don’t run around because you will look like prey. A lot of behaviors to avoid. We then...
The Best Cities for Young Adults →
iamnotablogger:
Of course, for any individual trying to pick a place to live, factors like where your friends are, and the kind of career you want to have, will outweigh all of this. If you want to be in the film industry you’re not going to move to Raleigh, North Carolina, no matter what Portfolio says.
Hahahaha. What a poignant example! I want to be in the film industry! I am in Durham,...
my life is awesome
I really wanted to catch up on The Amazing Race and finish off this amazing bottle of wine, but I talked myself out of it so I could do my homework for Tuesday instead. I was heaved a great sigh and picked up the syllabus to see what the assignment was this week. My homework?
Watch a reality TV show of your choosing.
MY LIFE IS AWESOME.
I feel this way about my homework all the time. I think...
More Telephone
It’s kind of the flip side of “Bad Romance,” which would seem to be her official girls-who-kiss-boys video. There’s a deep pessimism and fear regarding inequalities of power, in that video, and there is a presentation of her body as essentially monstrous, which: what girl does not get that metaphor, really? But then there is also a celebration of her body, and its power, and it gets violent...
yes, I am going to talk about Lady Gaga's...
Maybe it’s because I read Cara’s On Prison Rape and Complacency immediately before watching Telephone for the first time, but I just can’t be comfortable with the Bitch Prison. I am literally incapable of viewing the prison scenes without simultaneously thinking about prison rape, and it makes me not able to enjoy the video any more.
I don’t know why, with Bad Romance, I...
Sadybusiness: Okay I'm finally just going to go... →
On my way home, I was very aware of the fact that I had just had crystals glued to my vagina.
VAJAZZLERS: PLEASE STOP TELLING ME THAT YOU HAVE GLUED CRYSTALS TO YOUR VAGINAE. Although I am far more familiar with the vajazzling process than I ever hoped to be, every single time I hear “crystals on my vagina” THIS HAPPENS:
1. What the hell! Crystals lining your vaginal wall! OW!...
January 2010
1 post
