March 2010
Allison Kilkenny has the best journalistic lead of...
baratunde:
There are important similarities between Toyota’s recalled death missiles and Goldman Sach’s raping of American taxpayers, both of which illustrate what is wrong with the US government.
via trueslant.com
That’s just beautiful right there.
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“Boy! I wouldn’t want to be this girls boyfriend, or parents or anyone she...”
– Amazon.com: One Tablet Daily: Based on a True Story (9781438942186): Tenley Eakin: Books
an amazon.com comment about the book of a girl a few years below me at andover… her “tell-all” that seems to miss the only obvious fact: everyone else seemed to be doing great while she was...
February 2010
2010 Sherman Prize Speaking Contest
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NINE MINUTES, FIFTEEN SECONDS… MY LITTLE BROTHER KILLIN IT.
FIRST PLACE KIDDO
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snownami!
holy mackeral. i’m glad puppy decided he LIKES snow, otherwise this winter would have been miserable. (last year he hated it. thought it was my fault. thought i was a cruel puppy mommy.)
first, serious investigation.
conclusion: SNOW!
seriously. snow.
i love that little bottom all covered in snow! what i failed to capture with my iphone 1.0 that has the world’s...
Volatile Essence: Having married young, rich in... →
This poem hit home because I’ve so been there.
For Our Anniversary
by Jason Tandon
Now that the flowers have dried and withered, I will tell you that they were a re-wrapped bouquet—severely discounted— which allowed me to purchase those two salmon fillets I glazed with a bottle of maple…
snow-laden
hman:
*Snow-laden, falling tree limb kills man in Central Park (NYP) *Man Is Killed in Central Park by the Falling Branch of a Snow-Laden Tree (NYT)
A snow-laden branch fell from a tree and killed a man who was walking down Central Park’s “Literary Walk” at 67th Street near Fifth Avenue.
(Daily Beast)
*Snow laden tree branch kills man in NYC’s Central Park
A 46-year-old man was killed in...
Can we stop all this "real women have curves/don't...
rosieloveswords:
caraobrien:
Real women do whatever the fuck they want. And telling any woman that she’s not good enough because of her body or her choices regarding her appearance is just assholery.
So please, save your judgment. Judging someone by their appearance doesn’t make you better than they are. It just makes you an asshole.
Amen.
mi piace.
“When the police came to investigate, they came up with the explanation that...”
– A-Tumblring We Go: The Book Bench : The New Yorker
“14. Here he comes! I like to hide in the closet among the coats before he walks...”
– Edith Zimmerman: How To Make Your Husband A Nice Dinner
“6. Chop up the food and put it into little bowls. Then put a big bowl over each...”
– Edith Zimmerman: How To Make Your Husband A Nice Dinner
It’s the birthday of novelist and prolific composer Anthony Burgess, (books by this author) born in Manchester, England (1917), best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962), set in futuristic London. He once said, “The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and a failed musician, short-sighted, color-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have...
In The Alley
by Ted Kooser
In the alley behind the florist’s shop, a huge white garbage truck was parked and idling. In a cloud of exhaust, two men in coveralls and stocking caps, their noses dripping, were picking through the florist’s dumpster and each had selected a fistful of roses. As I walked past, they gave me a furtive, conspiratorial nod, perhaps sensing that I, too (though...
section9:
dcwhip:
also i miss him!
Aww! We’re pretty certain he misses you as well.
i hope so. : ) but only a little bit. a really small, not distracting bit. because he’s got stuff to do. i’ve just got puppy to snuggle.