February 2012
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My Dad Takes My Side On These Things
Rocio: You know, actually, is there, like, some planetary alignment for all of this year? It's a monumental year for everyone. Dad turned 50, it'll be your 30th wedding anniversary in April, Jav's 10th anniversary is coming up, you'll turn 50.
Mom: Yes.
Rocio: And 1234lander was telling me so many of his friends are getting married this year. Last week he named, like, five couples who recently got engaged, and then 3/4ths of Norm's friends will be married by summer.
Mom: Yes.
Rocio: Is it something in the air?
(Mom starts fanning and blowing air into Rocio's face)
Rocio: I'm going to interpret this to mean you really want my novel published this year.
Mom: Breathe it! Breathe the air!
UNCAGED FORCES AVON TO RETRACT FRAUDULENT... →
powerecoads:
Another Uncaged complaint has forced global cosmetics firm Avon to withdraw false claims that they don’t test on animals. Uncaged had written to the Advertising Standards Authority in protest at a deceptive statement on Avon’s UK website that told consumers:
‘Avon does not…
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January 2012
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Yelping with Cormac: Red Lobster →
Blogs are the new poetry.
Shut up.
yelpingwithcormac:
Wichita, KS
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The manager sat tied to the chair in the corral, firelit on all sides by the torches of the townfolk. Dean stood next to him with a Colt army revolver pointed to the hardpacked earth. Who else will speak, he said.
A chorus of voices rose at once. From the din a...
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15 Interesting Things About Vaginas and the... →
I hate talking about sex (I could be having it instead!), but I never skip a chance to distribute facts about and for sexual health. Health is sexy! Go forth and recreate, ladies.
It’s amazing how much misinformation is out there about the vagina, and the entire vulva in general. Given how fascinated our society is with the “female” body, you’d think we’d be a little more informed. But from...
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December 2011
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I am perplexed that people can say “you should... →
thinkingupblognamesishard:
dewdropitlikeitshot:
aarbearrawr:
So when was it that you made that incredibly difficult choice to continue doing something you have been raised to think is normal? Was it tough to get started on your path to a diet/lifestyle that perpetuates the murder of of animals? Do you sometimes find it difficult to stick to your convictions because vegan food is everywhere...
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What's your favorite holiday-themed children's...
Mandie and the Holiday Surprise! I was forced to attend church every week in my youth, and the Mandie series in the church library was the one thing that kept me from losing my mind. Mandie was pure BAMFiness.
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Wash Your Hands, Handle Some Food
too long; almost didn’t write it
Wash Your Hands, Handle Some Food
I’m feeling great, no lie. I’m feeling more centered and focused because I’ve been steadily straining my reach for these frames of mind, the way you would strain to grasp the best pieces of fruit high on a tree. But the holidays are approaching and I’ve always found that time unwinds dangerously for me at the end of the...
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November 2011
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August 2011
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New Year's Resolution
Peridot
Today I become 26 years of age. Like a butterfly, that is turning 26 years old. Or a beautiful swan about to say, “Hey, it’s my birthday.”
Looking Back
Part of my birthday celebration involves looking back to ten years ago.
Ten years ago, I did not have a laptop. Ten years ago, I didn’t yet blog, probably perhaps because I didn’t want to have the...
Totally Morgan: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhh. →
Many of the show’s plot foils are stressful because of Ricky’s chauvinism—I remember screaming at the television when I was twelve, whenever he would squash her or trick her — and the societal context in which the show came to be developed means many people at the time probably never saw his dominance for what it was. But, thankfully, Lucille Ball managed to bring humor to...
The Wolf and The Butterfly: I Love Lucy...kinda →
I watched so much I Love Lucy that when I see Lucy’s living room, my brain automatically, fleetingly, reads it as a cue that I’m home; displaced stage blocking, like it was my oven in which I purposefully burnt the toast to teach Ricky a lesson. If I’m at home already, my brain is like, now you’re more at home.
I also recall that during summer vacation, my sister and I...
July 2011
10 posts
Dear Dewdrop: A Badvice Column for People of Bad...
One of my favorite things to do is read the inquiries found in advice columns and offer my own advice aloud. Here is that advice.
From Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column:
Q. My husband and I met in college in an English class, and our first date was mostly a conversation about our favorite novels. One of my all-time favorite works is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I’m pregnant with my first...
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Whims, Whimmed Playlist
Patrick O’Hearn - Beyond This Moment
Dead Man’s Bones - Flowers Grow Out of My Grave
Kisses - Kisses
Dry The River - No Rest
Rubblebucket - Silly Fathers (RAC Remix)
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
The Loose Cannons - Why You
Dom - Jesus
City and Colour - The Girl
Foals - Blue Blood
Unai - Blissful Burden
Cut Copy - Take Me Over [Playlister’s Note: I...
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Scenes from Resortlife #725683
David: I have to start making music. I'm six months behind this one guy, my sworn enemy.
Rocio: Haven't you learned anything from the best movie ever*?!?!? You have to see this as a challenge.
David: Yeah, but what if he's Mozart and I'm Salieri?
Rocio: ....
David: Oh, wait! That means I get to kill him! Thanks, Roze!
*Amadeus is my favorite movie of all time. It is the best movie ever. I'll be taking no more questions at this time.
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Process.
I have a list of character names for endeavors that require words—endeavors for which I want lucrative attention someday SOON please—and on certain days I remember to use these names as I spin the details in my mind. I’m like: …. and then Torsten will marry Amparo but her dad actually will not approve, but it won’t matter because they move far away, no, yes,...
June 2011
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Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? →
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.*
natface:
joemuto:
You know who doesn’t give a fuck anymore? The University of Oxford styleguide:
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
Game changer.
*i’m not just a full-blown descriptivist, i’m also more like a subscriptivist (see how i did that! i can’t turn it...