December 2011
47 posts
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do...”
– Pablo Picasso (via dobetternow)
Autocorrect really wants me to look like a weirdo to my friend Carla, and only my friend Carla, for some odd reason.
It tried to tell her, “my son probed me wrong” instead of proved, and, “I hope your sister is soiling you!” instead of spoiling you.
I mean, gross.
WEIRDEST CONVERSATION I’VE HAD IN AWHILE:
Me: Do you validate?
Pharamicist clerk: Only for the first 20 minutes. But you can buy 20 minute validation stamps for $2.00 each.
Me: But it only costs $1.20 every 20 minutes to park here.
PC: Yeah.
Me: That’s more than it would cost for me to just pay for the ticket without validation.
PC: Yeah.
Me: That doesn’t make any...
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because i couldn’t have said it better myself.
“So this year, I am going to relax about the time tables. I have the love of my life and hilarious beautiful creative children surrounding me, and they keep me magnetized and pulled close to them, and so if that means that it’s going to take longer to get to where I want to be, that’s fine. I am getting there with good...
“Other bands, it’s about sex. Or pain. Or some fantasy. But The Beatles, they...”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (via atomos)
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Little Toy Trains
“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become...”
– Libba Bray (via myquotelibrary)
CORNY POST OF THE YEAR JUST IN TIME FOR THE END OF THE YEAR!!
You guys I have been so happy lately it would embarrass hipsters all over the world (and my mother). It’s the smallest things that just make me feel so grateful. When I go on my run I just feel so full of happiness looking at the mountains and the trees. I’m so happy I live here. I’m grateful for LOS ANGELES. And...
Neti Pot Deaths Linked to Brain-Eating Amoeba in... →
WTF????
in which our heroine is just trying to pick up...
youveescaped:
I was reading The Moviegoer while I waited in line to pick up lunch. The tall man in front of me turned around at one point, looked me up and down, and gave me a smarmy smile.
“Men don’t really like it when women read so much,” he said, setting my blood to instaboil.
“Women who read don’t really like letting men who are that dumb get it in,” I replied with a beatific smile.
He...
Harper likes to talk her way through her bedtime songs. I don’t really care, I just plow ahead and do it whether she’s listening or not, but it bugs Brett. I guess he feels the need to “listen to her” and “not be ignored” and “be a good parent”. But she is often interrupting with things like this:
Brett: Harper, I’m going to sing now and...
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via purns)
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Has this been posted a million times? I haven’t been on tumblr much lately, but this seems like something lots of people would have loved and posted. It is further confirmation of Louis CK being the most awesomest ever (elegant prose for the win!). But honestly, it is truly inspiring watch someone push themselves not only in their art, but also in the distribution of it. He wrote it,...
File this under: Ryan Gosling makes it impossible...
“Ryan likes to keep busy and previously claimed if everyone in Hollywood had jobs outside of the acting industry they would be much happier people. He said: ‘They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it’s not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much...
Kathy Griffin, 51 and Proud, Tells Women in... →
This whole article is awesome. Snippet:
“My advice to all of you? Own that shit! Stand tall and proud and fight for what you deserve. Talent transcends age. And if you don’t believe me, I have three words for you: Meryl. F—ing. Streep. She’s as hot as ever! And don’t say, “She’s the exception because she’s Meryl Streep.” The fact is,...
I received Brett’s Christmas list last night, but anyone taking even a very hard look at this list they would think it was a “the apocoplyse is coming, make sure you know what’s up!” list. There are not one but THREE emergency preparedness books (how’s a lady to choose??) a prybar and some kind of emergency bathtub water storage thing? The list doesn’t end...
Harper: This is delicious. Clyde, you make excellent dinner.
Clyde: T’anks.
Harper: (to me) That’s a nice thing to say to someone isn’t it? When someone makes you something?
Me: Yes, it is.
Harper: Clyde made me dinner, I made him dinner. This tea party can’t end! It’s the best tea party ever! I couldn’t stop this tea party even if I wanted to!
Quoz: Elvis Costello: Steal This Record & Abbie... →
curtisretherford:
Elvis Costello thinks his new boxed set is too expensive. So, he says, don’t buy it.
Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire…
If you should really want to buy…
Like we needed more reasons to love Elvis Costello.
Harper: I love you more and more each day.
Me: Aw, thank you.
Harper: I didn’t love you the first day. But I loved you the second day and then more and more after that.
Me: Why didn’t you love me the first day?
Harper: I didn’t love you the first day I set eyes on you. But after that I did.
Me: Alright.
Harper: And more and more and more and more and more.
I think if...
“I was listening to “In the Air Tonight” in my car and arrived at my destination...”
– First World Problems (via epic4chan)
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1
(via pleasingaesthetics)
I haven’t seen anything other than the first one, but if this is true irresponsible is the perfect word to describe it.