January 2011
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And all of a sudden, you're out $49
I just changed my tumblr theme, folks. Old theme: Inspire Well. New theme: Savory (but you may notice the background image is the same. I’m kind of addicted to that wood, even though when I was using the old theme I used a different wood background. Is this sort of thing allowed? I’m guessing yes, and if not, who the F cares?)
I know the last time I changed my theme was back in July,...
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A Plea for a Raise by Jack Kennedy →
I love that this letter from 10 year old JFK says “Chapter 1” at the top. Why Jack, why?
Second-Cheapest Syndrome
Well, here’s your excuse to order the cheapest bottle of wine on the menu. Oh, you’re welcome.
mentalflossr:
Ever order the second-cheapest wine on the menu while dining out? You don’t want to spend very much, but you also don’t want to look like a cheapskate ordering the cheapest bottle on the whole menu. Well, one in four diners do (in the UK, at least). In the marketing...
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You Can’t Force A Dance Party, Dent May...
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No, Vivian Girls
Pates Tapes →
Can’t stop listening to this.
This guy decided to start streaming his collection of mix tapes he’s created since 1977. So awesome.
(Via MUG)
Close Read: Holding Giffords’s Hand : The New... →
Definitely mandatory reading. This is beautiful and terribly sad.
newyorker:
peterwknox:
This is a READING REQUIREMENT. Short, beautiful, touching, and tough.
Thanks, Josh.
RIP Gonzalez y Gonzalez →
“…Any picture’s improved if you draw a cigarette in it. There’s nothing...”
– Lynda Barry in the Paris Review. <3 her.
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Here's to 2011
Burning the Old Year By Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves...
