October 2011
1 post
+Reblog if you know an Asian guy named Kevin.
lorenzthesexysaurus:
aye-cer-dan:
oheytherecamille:
kevjumbo:
pseudosane:
I heard my name?
i know like 5 lol
I know like 2 or something
like, 12.
September 2011
7 posts
packing list for my 6-day solo vacay
the sfpl’s best musical offerings, including etta james christmas tunes, charlotte gainsbourg’s irm, mary j blige, the latest norah jones, a ruth reichl audiobook
i don’t know how many bottles of wine
bottle opener
box of books. 7 packed so far, not including the guidebooks
all i’ve got so far. what else do people bring on these sorts of things?
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare...
things spotify has:
the entire contents of my barely adolescent self’s music collection, and then most of the contents of my pop-music obsessed high school self. (as if i’ve given up pop music since.) 90s mariah. fiona apple, natalie merchant’s “ophelia.” the cardigans, s club 7. jojo!
the soundtrack to baz lurhmann’s version of romeo + juliet. i can remember nearly melting into...
Black Widow Sonya Thomas Eats 183 Chicken Wings,... →
asiansnotstudying:
The Black Widow of eating contests has scarfed down 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes to break her own world record set last year in Buffalo, N.Y.
Sonya Thomas took home first place Sunday at the tenth annual National Buffalo Wings Festival. She beat eating marvel Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, who came in second with 174 wings.
wiki says that thomas used to work as a typist back...
The Hammock by Li-Young Lee
When I lay my head in my mother’s lap I think how day hides the stars, the way I lay hidden once, waiting inside my mother’s singing to herself. And I remember how she carried me on her back between home and the kindergarten, once each morning and once each afternoon.
I don’t know what my mother’s thinking.
When my son lays his head in my lap, I wonder: Do his...
August 2011
8 posts
The American Prospect: The Wrath of Women in... →
theamericanprospect:
Pema Levy spoke with EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock to get the inside scoop on the role of women in today’s recall elections. An excerpt:
How did we end up in a situation in which five of six candidates in Wisconsin are women?
The fact that five of six are Democratic women, we haven’t seen that in, well, have we ever seen that? I mean, women are only 17...
July 2011
6 posts
“The way things are shaping up now, the most plausible Democratic appeal will be:...”
– Harold Meyerson. If you’re not reading his blog, you should be. He’s totally killing it. (via theamericanprospect)
“It was excrutiatingly hard to find myself having to conclude that my father,...”
– Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage
“In the weeks after the birth, the world turned inside out. Black became white....”
– Danzy Senna, “The Care of the Self,” You are Free
June 2011
5 posts
the upsides of a 6-day stomach flu
1) i missed so much of the world’s important news, and my community’s most important news, and i just did not even give a fuck.
2) same for all of the internet.
3) deep, full, pain-free breaths make me quiver a little bit, with trepidation and relief, both.
4) so much time for reflection (only of course after lots of time spent vacillating between rage and self-pity)!!! i have not...
May 2011
32 posts
Jenny Diski: ‘An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That... →
ladyjournos:
Warning: This essay does not include the single most reprehensible, shocking, forbidden expletive in the language. Maybe it should.
The New York Times Magazine || May 20, 2011
“I really like how we use the same word to describe the swirling quasar of...”
– A Dude, The Hairpin
Ask A Dude is usually great, but more consistently excellent is A Lady, who commenters often suspect is Edith Zimmerman, but who I privately hope is Mary H.K. Choi.
“From Anton — and from two other photographers I came to know in Libya, Samuel...”
– Ryan Calder, a sociologist and correspondent for The Atlantic in Libya, pays tribute to slain photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed in early April while on the ground outside Brega. Read the rest at The Atlantic (via theatlantic)
“The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult,...”
– Marilynne Robinson, from a Paris Review interview, quoted in Meghan O’Rourke’s The Long Goodbye. Just what I needed to help me face Gilead again…
happy birthday to the man who taught me what...
i know it’s crazy to say, but i knew what falling in love would feel like before i ever experienced it for myself, because a stevie wonder song taught me.
i want to be able to say i’ve been a lifelong stevie devotee, and i wish i had a story to tell about growing to love stevie wonder at my parents’ feet, while stevie wonder blasted from a record player. or that i could...
“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion, but...”
– André Maurois