January 2011
WatchHappiness Blues, Fleet Foxes
“I return to problems I can’t solve, not because I am an idiot, but because the...”
– Jeanette Winterson. Today, in the river. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or,...”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via: carljung, adsertoris rawsilk, & seeyoulateraggregator)
“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I...”
– Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (via casimms)
Recipe for a laundry day/oatmeal raisin cookies
The following is my interpretation of this week’s prompt for my senior writing seminar to “vary your variations in a series or sequence.”
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1 cup (2 sticks) fabric softener
3/4 cup firmly pleated brown pants
1/2 cup granulated shirts
2 leggings
1 teaspoon liquor of choice (or shots to taste)
1 tablespoon honey (no honey, not any, I’ll have none of it)
2 cups...
Are Our Writers as Lousy as Our Bankers? →
by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash
“Now it would seem, as a white man, I’m not personally injured by the failure of...”
– How the Bechdel Test could save the Oscars
This was published last year during Oscar season and I’m revisiting it because I don’t think I ever saw it on Tumblr but also because the critical lauding and Golden Globe wins (which I don’t consider critical lauding, har har) have made me circle back to...
We learn how to love from those who love us.
Hark, a vagrant: 295 →
Oh, sexy Batman. You so silly.
20 Minute Tension Release Shoulder-Openers →
alaureltree:
I never succeed with these “21 Day Challenge” things because I always miss a day or get behind and then freak out and decide to put it off for when I have time to do it ‘perfectly.’ I signed up for this 21 day yoga challenge with yoga journal back in December, and when I realized I had forgotten to do the first day, I got extremely frustrated and wound up missing the second day and...
Everlasting Light, The Black Keys
“For what reason or purpose I had been left behind, I do not know, and it may be...”
– The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Writing is the response to the situation of yourself.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, in a lecture given at Vassar College on November 22nd.
alaureltree:
My Friend’s Dinner
A blog where See Troise Write and I exchange recipes for the other to try out and write about/photograph our experiences!
Check it out!
“What is required is a willingness to look
deeply at one’s present moments,
no...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, from The Beauty We Love (via crashinglybeautiful)
“What is required is a willingness to look
deeply at one’s present moments,
no...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, from The Beauty We Love (via crashinglybeautiful)
“What matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame—but rather, how...”
– Barack Obama in his Address in Arizona, given yesterday. Video and transcript here.
scratchboard:
The beginning is actually an...
Watchsirmitchell:
sofapizza:
what-is-sleep:fireking:
The voice cast of Spongebob redubs Casablanca, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Godfather.
o shit can i just have them redub all my favorite movies please? XD
This is freaking brilliant.
Watchsirmitchell:
sofapizza:
what-is-sleep:fireking:
The voice cast of Spongebob redubs Casablanca, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Godfather.
o shit can i just have them redub all my favorite movies please? XD
This is freaking brilliant.
