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January 2009
1 post
And she said, “Honey, take me dancing”...
December 2008
4 posts
In the winter of 2005, a little over a dozen...
November 2008
11 posts
“It must also be noted that beginning with Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!,...”
– [wikipedia]
“Mad Men is an unpleasant little entry in the genre of Now We Know Better. We...”
– Mark Greif, London Review of Books
(via katorade)
Ramsey Lewis - Hang On Sloopy
I just discovered...
Idea for a girl group
The Moist Towelettes.
Built-in fanbase: The Moist Towelette Museum
“The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for the Democratic...”
– (huffpo, via wonderflu)
“Sartorially speaking, fall is almost always dominated by warm colors (think...”
– “Purple Reign,” Time
October 2008
17 posts
“In the 1980s, it was renamed Honey Smacks. In the early 1990s, it had been...”
– “Honey Smacks,” wikipedia
How long did it take them to “discover” that Dig’em Frog had changed the name?
Help Me Use My Flexible Spending Account!
So in signing up for benefits after my recent hire, I think I accidentally asked for too high of a deduction in my paycheck for my Flexible Spending Health Care account. It’s a use-it-or-lose-it kind of thing, so now that the money’s already in my account, I need to spend it by the end of the year. Here are the acceptable over-the-counter purchases. Any recommendations?
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Undecided
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it...
“downers grove south high school
this is the brokest school ever with some of...”
– “Hugh Jaynus”, Urban Dictionary
“tu–whit tu–whoo, int. (n.)
Pronunciation: \tə-ˌ(h)wit-tə-ˈ(h)wü\
Etymology:...”
– Merriam-Webster
“A thingamajig is different from a widget, in that a widget is an actual, but not...”
– “Placeholder names in English,” Wikipedia
September 2008
12 posts
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the...”
– Saul Bellow, “Him With His Foot in His Mouth.”
Overall, “This Is Love” by The...
“At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a book on the treatment of insanity...”
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- Robert Richards, my one time Goethe professor, from “Rhapsodies on a Cat-Piano, or Johann Christan Reil and the Foundations of Romantic Psychiatry.” Critical Inquiry 24 (Spring 1998).
(via conorgaffney)
A song for my Japal and my new e-Japal.
...
Waiting for Bro-dot
evan: i'm drinking PBR with my spaghetti right now
hannah: SINGLE-LIFE
evan: i knowwww
hannah: is it microwaved spaghetti
evan: it's chef boyardee but the microwave's kinda busted
evan: so i was like "fuck that"
evan: and i'm just eatin it cold from the can
evan: i'm going out to hang out with some people who kind of annoy me in a bit
evan: so i'm kind of hoping to be drunk before i get there
hannah: NO YOU AREN'T
evan: YEAH WHY NOT
hannah: this is a really fantastic segment
hannah: let's just read this again
hannah: evan: i'm drinking PBR ...[Ed. ELISION!]... drunk before i get there
hannah: a++++++
hannah: let's write a play
hannah: based on that segment