May 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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“He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates,...”
– Lois Lowry, The Giver
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October 2011
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“No, I didn’t win; but at least I didn’t make any new friendships.”
– April, Parks and Recreation, “Beauty Pageant”
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“—The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of...”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
September 2011
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Listen
August 2011
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Come on, Ladies! Let's go shoot some mofos...with... →
May 2011
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GEORGE: You know, I'm a little nervous.
JERRY: Why?
GEORGE: Well, you know... the friend meeting the new woman. I feel like I'm getting fixed up for a friendship.
April 2011
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“In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (2010)
February 2011
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Discovered this song at a makeshift karaoke bar...
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I →
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It's Thursday Night
Time for beer.
December 2010
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“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot...”
– Jack London, Call of the Wild
October 2010
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Going Off the Grid. →
Ending the week in true SF style.
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FYI Tumblr, I'm cheating on you.
Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
September 2010
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“Women are sexualized and objectified to appeal to others. Our culture tells us...”
– Politics of Pleasure « Women’s Glib (via greaterthanlapsed)
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“A boy and a girl run around on the grass at the park. The boy tackles the girl....”
– Yes Means Yes blog: “visions of female sexual power & a world without rape”
Parents, siblings, carers, cousins, teachers, tutors, mentors, aunts, uncles, etc, of young children: we have a chance to mold the gender relations of the future.
(via genderqueer)
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“I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly...”
– Virginia Woolf (via colourmegreenwich)
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Food for Thought. →
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Linguistic relativity →
bestofwikipedia:
Linguistic relativity is the idea that differences in the way languages encode cultural and cognitive categories affect the way people think, so that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of it. A strong version of the hypothesis holds that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories. A...
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How the Mind Counteracts Offensive Ideas →
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“I was standing at a Starbucks in Sheffield outside a Mighty Boosh performance,...”
– Alison Mosshart on how “The Dead Weather” started to take form.. (via icall-it-art) (via thedeadweather) (via theconstantfever) (via moonlight-driive)
Now this is how you start a band.
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I was sweetly serenaded with this song the other...
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July 2010
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“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if...”
– Holden Caulfield (J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye)
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Check it. Wear it. →
Don’t forget Rudependence Day.
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“It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of...”
– Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)
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Play like a grrrl! →
Did you know this piece of legislation was written by Hawaiian congresswoman Patsy Mink? If ya don’t know, now ya know.
June 2010
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“Write Drunk. Edit Sober”
– (via cherishrevereenvey)
The perfect quote for my last finals week.
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May 2010
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Rrriot! →
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Time to officially get a record player. →
April 2010
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