February 2010
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Joel Johnson's "Why I'm Funny" →
katespencer:
This was a moving read.
fruitpizza:
Wow. Gizmodo, Consumerist, Gawker, etc. Editor writes about his childhood with a sexually abusive adoptive/stepfather. Intense blog post.
“It’s about a hooker with a heart of gold. A literal heart of gold. She dies in...”
– i used to write fake/ridiculous treatments for my screenwriting classes just to fuck with the professors. i’m pretty sure chandy and i came up with this one while drinking rum. (via synecdoche) (via therealestsocksinthegame)
Nada Surf covers Bill Fox’s Electrocution....
Here's my own food tip:
mittenstategirl:
smashley:
beakbeak:
The healthy cereals? The ones that won’t cause your milk to change colors (according to Michael Pollan’s Food Rules)? They’re on the top shelf. The cereals on the bottom are the extra-sugary ones that the kids want. Easy reach for the grab-grabby hands.
I am going to admit how much of an old lady I am here, but oatmeal. Oatmeal (especially not the...
There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers -... →
“After every Olympic event, rather than receiving their medals, athletes are given a bouquet of flowers. At the Beijing Olympics, roses dominated the bouquets. In Turin, it was rhododendrons, azaleas, and camellias. This year, it’s green mums and hypericum berries.
The bouquets come from Just Beginnings Flowers and Margitta’s Flowers in Surrey, British Columbia. Their entry...
“If you’re going to be the kind of black person who dismisses/labels whole swaths...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS SAY. Why stay confined to only one stereotypical idea of “culture” when you can learn more about, grow to appreciate, and cherish many different realms of culture? I think that it only gives more to the individual than anything else. But, a key idea here is...
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A divorcee at 26
I just straight up lied to my credit card company about my alleged recent divorce in order to expedite the shipment of my new card.
I really didn’t want to have to go to the trouble of sending in a copy of my ID so that my card accurately reflects my legal name. Part of this is related that, despite being employed by a company that makes, among other things, printers, I don’t own a...
Does this seem odd to you?
buyhercandy:
indefensible:
In the past week or so, I’ve mentioned two Australian public figures by name on Twitter. One a journalist, the other an author. They don’t follow me, and I didn’t mention their twitter @names.
Yet each responded to what I had said about them. I find this behaviour somewhat surprising, and in some ways, disturbing. I didn’t say anything about either of them that I...
rackattack:
Mother Mother — Body
“In sum, mainstream Canada claims and re-packages imagery from natives to sell a...”
– Guest Post: An Indigenous Olympics? (via bonesarecoralmade / curate)
truth.
(via littleorphanammo)
allpointsnorth:I’d like to see a picture of your shoe collection sometime, Nico.
It’s really not that exciting, sadly. Most of my shoes reside in boxes. I keep one pair of boots in the hall with between 2-3 pairs of Vans Authentics. There’s probably around 15 pairs, a mix of slips, Chucks, boots, and loafers in the hall closet.
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Why the classic New York accent is fading away -... →
Population change is one major factor of the New York accent’s decline, as the mixing of different people tends to neutralize accents. Why exactly hasn’t been figured out by linguists: “There’s a huge argument in the field as to whether it’s changed by contact with other people or by self-identity,” Newman says. In other words, do kids neglect to pick up the...
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“try being a working class, black mother radical activist and find a midwife to...”
– mai’a commenting on Stuff White People Like: Talking About Birth [via] (via anthropophagous)
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I'm having trouble figuring out who I want to see....
balboa:
Sat Feb 13th - Wilco - 10:00 @ Livecity Yaletown Sun Feb 14th - Keisha Chante - 10:00 @ Ontario Pavillion Sun Feb 14th - Mother Mother - 8:00 @ Livecity Yaletown Sun Feb 14th - Elliot Brood - 9:30 @ Livecity Downtown Mon Feb 15th - Jenn Grant - 8:30 @ Ozone Mon Feb 15th - Sloan - 10:30 @ Atlantic Canada House Mon Feb 15th - Serena Ryder - 10:00 @ Ontario Pavillion Mon Feb 15th - Kathleen...
Fucked Up - “Colour Removal”
(via nostrich &...
“On one hand yes, I guess I’m confusing because I’m not a color you’re used to...”
– Hoity Coity: ‘You Have An Interesting Look About You’ (via sexartandpolitics)
UGLY OUTFITS WITH A GIANT RALPH LAUREN LOGO
switchblades:
GROSS AMERICA
The toques were the only saving grace of an otherwise boring outfit.
Clara Hughes' scarf reminds me that I need to...
“Finding a problem with disproportionately white male representation doesn’t make...”
– Shakesville: Yay Diversity (via clingtomymouth) (via katoleary) (via gauntlet)
long weekend kicks off in t minus two hours
jaimeleigh:
I heart family day.
I have grown to love the fake-sounding holiday. We just don’t have enough long weekends in the winter. Some of us like to ski out of province.
2 awesome things I learned yesterday
alphalux:
J.Crew gives students a 15% off discount
Apple replaces earbuds for free when they’ve crapped out and your iPod/iPhone is still under warranty
Yeah, that second point is the only reason I got AppleCare on my iPod. I’ve never had issues, but I’m fairly hard on my earbuds/charging cables. I’ve gotten at least 4 pairs of ear buds and 3 new charging cables for free....
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An anthropology of the internet →
People, machines and money matter in this world, in that order. Most intellectuals know very little about any of them, being preoccupied with their own production of cultural ideas. Anthropologists have made some progress towards understanding people, but they are often in denial when it comes to the other two; and their methods for studying people have been trapped for too long in the...
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