February 2011
roughguess asked: i don't know zachary lipez personally but i have his first book "no seats on the party car"! that is so cool, i love the internet.
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Black ballet: Pointe break//The Guardian →
ourcatastrophe:
Cira Robinson started “pancaking” her ballet shoes when she was 18: “I use foundation. The colour is Caribbean coffee – it’s basic cheap make-up, but it works. Pointe shoes come only in the traditional pink, unless they’re red for a show. It would look strange if there was a pink shoe at the end of a brown leg, so it helps with the line. My pointe shoes are brown because my...
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“I think I’m going to defend Rochester. I don’t see the problem. He seems fine to me.”—Zachary Lipez on Eyresses & more http://bit.ly/ezWnLm
January 2011
This week—Prada, Conde, doctors. Next week—Montauk, Sarah, Calvin Johnson. Carrots and sticks all in order.
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In love w a Wives and Daughters character who is wakened in the night and puts on a tiara before speaking.
Do I want to take a class in cross-stitch or in making pop-up cards?
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RT @randajarrar: Just talked 2 my aunt in Alexandria- people are afraid, women are staying home because of rumors of rapists trolling th …
Raymond Cummings at San Antonio Current: The... →
There were, as it happens, three J.D. Salingers. There was the reclusive, apparently stingy Salinger who, beginning in the 1960s, shut himself and his manuscripts away from public view and retained lawyers in a failed effort to curate the world’s perception of him. There was the complicated, continually evolving Salinger, whose short, long, and novella-length fictions doubled as coded or...
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westerners/outsiders are asking the wrong question
healingsakina:
asking: what made “them” (the egyptian people) decide to protest now? why did they tolerate things for so long?
implication: “they” deserved what they had because they weren’t saying anything against it until now.
what we should be asking: what do you (the egyptian people) want? do you want anything from us & if so how can we support you?
This is true in so many contexts.
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I am so tired. I would like to lie down and have a falafel IV or something, and then be awakened next week.
I’m about to drink a NEUROSUN smart drink. Everything is going to be different.
RT @NatlParkService: Interested in being an Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park & produce children’s educational art & material …
I think you people making jokes about olives may not realize how tiny Dennis Kucinich actually is.
“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to...”
– Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Oh god damn it, now Elizabeth Wurtzel is resonating with me.
Make a joke about rape and you are deleted from my...
RT @seasonothebitch: RT @Beyerstein: #SOTU = National Relationship Status Update: It’s complicated.
RT @chilcote: I think I’ll skip the State of the Union and listen to “The Union of the Snake” instead.
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Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Juthika's Account... →
stfuislamophobes:
Apparently Juthika and several other Tumblr users have had their accounts suspended as of last night due to calling out a Tumblr that featured underage girls in sexually provocative manners. Juthika posted instructions for other Tumblr users to be able to report the…
This is FUCKED UP
Wait I lied, it’s not Canadian Elle, it’s FLARE which is so out there it took a while for my head to get with it.
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“Must I think of everything for the whole world??” — from ShutUpFoodies, will be my motto when I finally get a proper heraldic coat of arms.
