February 2011
I wanna have a sleepover with you, so we can cuddle in bed and watch movies all night. First we'll watch a scary movie, then after we'll watch a funny one. When our bodies get all uncomfortable from being in a certain position too long, we'll move around so that we're comfortable again but somehow cuddling still. Ya know? Then when we get hungry we can go to the kitchen and make a midnight snack. Then we'll go back to your room and maybe play video games and whoever dies first has to give the winner a kiss. That kiss will lead to more kissing and cuddling and all that cute stuff. And when we're all tired and restless, we'll be able to sleep in each others arms til the sun rises, if it hasn't already.
(via inspiredbythisfeeling, jlagrimasss)
“I had this idea of what the writing life would be like. There were cocktail parties involved, and lots of socially acceptable binge drinking … It’s actually more like [being in] a mental institution. … I spend long periods of time thinking about invisible people who only exist in my head.”
—Justin Kramon (FINNY), on the writing life (via wordbrooklyn)
ZOOEY'S MISCELLANY: 20 great excuses for not getting anything done while at a coffee shop. →
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1. I don’t like this chair.
2. I’m tired.
3. I can’t remember what I am working on.
4. I’m simultaneously too warm AND too cold.
5. Adult attention deficit disorder.
6. Memories of childhood. So deep.
7. There are too many people fussing with chairs around here.
8. I’ve had too…
January 2011
“Memoirs have been disgorged by virtually everyone who has ever had cancer, been anorexic, battled depression, lost weight. By anyone who has ever taught an underprivileged child, adopted an underprivileged child or been an underprivileged child. By anyone who was raised in the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s, not to mention the ’50s, ’40s or ’30s. Owned a dog. Run a marathon. Found religion. Held a job.”
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Not a perfect piece by any means, but the take-home point that just because you CAN write a memoir doesn’t mean you SHOULD is solid.
The Problem With Memoirs - NYTimes.com
(via bookladysblog)
Pan Roasted Dijon Chicken | Finding Crumbs in Books since 1982 →
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My cooking blog is updated!
“So the novelist is always working with at least three languages. There is the author’s own language, style, perceptual equipment, and so on; there is the character’s presumed language, style, perceptual equipment, and so on; and there is what we could call the language of the world—the language that fiction inherits before it gets to turn it into novelistic style, the language of daily speech, of newspapers, of offices, of advertising, of the blogosphere and text messaging. In this sense, the novelist is a triple writer, and the contemporary novelist now feels especially the pressure of this tripleness, thanks to the omnivorous presence of the third horse of this troika, the language of the world, which has invaded our subjectivity, our intimacy…”
—James Wood, How Fiction Works
Expelliarmus
- DAD: Ungardium leviosa, ladies!!
- ME: Do you mean wingardium leviosa?
- DAD: It’s levi OH sa, not LEVI oh sa
- DAD: And by that I mean I booked the tix 4 HP land. watch out 4 expeliarmus @ college.
10 Day - You - Challenge - Day 6
6 places you want to go
6. NYC
5. LA
4. Seattle
3. Maine
2. Paris
1. Great Britain
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones →
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This is terrifying to me.
From article:
There used to be a quasi-truce between the pro- and anti-choice forces on the issue of federal funding for abortion.
Home | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS →
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PBS is reporting even if others aren’t.
New recipe on SmittenKitchen! →
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This is my go-to cooking blog.
Bookavore: Thoughts on the Snooki book. →
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Oh, where does one begin? Does one start by saying “it’s not as bad as people say,” a backhanded insult both true and defensive? Does one mention that one laughed; can one reject the fear that whatever one says about the Snooki book says more about the reader than the book? Is it possible to even…
Bitches →
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Go read and die laughing. snort
10 Day - You - Challenge - Day 7
7 Wants
7. a job
6. the magical power of eating whatever I want while simultaneously losing all the weight I want so long as I work out
5. the ability to speak French fluently
4. friends around me to hang out with and have over and generally be with regularly
3. one more day with my mom
2. a job
1. love
Serious Question: Should I start my own business?
I’ve thought a lot about starting my own consulting company for writers. I’d have to do a lot of research and get myself a website up and running, but I feel like it’s a good idea.
What do you guys think?
“
Bella’s overweening blandness—-as much as the guilty pleasure rescue fantasy, may explain the series’ ongoing appeal: TWILIGHT’s heroine is so insipid, so ordinary, so clumsy, so Not Hot.
Isn’t that great?
Think about it: what a relief that must be for girls who feel constant pressure to be physically, socially, and academically perfect.
” —I hate to admit that there’s something to this, but I think she may just be right. I mean, how else to understand the appeal of such poorly written fiction?
Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter
(via bookladysblog)
“Jersey Shore will have more seasons than Arrested Development. Hope you’re proud of yourselves, humanity.”
—Gizmodo’s Jason Chen. (via vanityfair)
10 Day - You - Challenge - Day 8
Day 8 Fears
8. Fire
7. Tornados
6. Being watched
5. People who cry
4. People in the midst of a severe allergic attack
3. losing control
2. alienating my family
1. alone forever
When Parents Text: 27 Years Young →
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My dad would totally tell me this…and not just on my birthday.
When Parents Text: Robots in Disguise →
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I want to be a transformer.
rainy morning coffee | Flickr – Condivisione di foto! on we heart it / visual bookmark #6546974 →
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I would like the excuse to make two cups of coffee in the morning.
Newborn Elephants are Very Easily Entertained →
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cutey pie baby elephant
