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Alanis Morissette - On the Tequila a.) You shut your face while I explain. b.) I dare you to...
Aug 1st
“I love your sloppy pullback.”
— Kraab. You do not get the...
Jul 31st
Kraabel always tells me I need to live in the moment, stop...
Jul 31st
I really don’t want to settle for a good house or a...
Jul 31st
marco: The November Blog: The second-greatest T-shirt ever...
Jul 31st
lovepuppy:maryanne:caughtupinsanity:click through for...
Jul 31st
Says China broke promise to improve human...
Jul 30th
This one’s for you Kraab. I know you love it when I...
Jul 30th
Warch Watch
jakeandamir: Hallie Part II “I like your hair. Is it brown?”
Jul 30th
“My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Jul 29th
Best of Craigslist: Ferocious Attack Kitten
Jul 29th
He’s a very good one.
Jul 29th

Things That Happen When K is Out of...

1.) I lose all sense of time.  Work too late, waste too much time on Tumblr when I finally come...
Jul 29th

Let's start a meme!

alexbalk: Category is “Songs That You Can No Longer Hear Without Somehow Imagining Them Playing...
Jul 29th
“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were....”
— The Wonder Years ...
Jul 28th
“HR also added flip flops to the list of prohibited items.”
— From the office’s...
Jul 28th
“I heart fonts.”
— TypeNow.net Themed Commercial...
Jul 28th
His antlers were sooooo soft.
Jul 28th
On the way home, we stopped at the incomparable...
Jul 28th
Home from camping, sleepy, tired and more relaxed than...
Jul 28th
Welcome, Mr. would-be President
Jul 25th

that's what he said

youcanandyouwill: Whenever I call my boyfriend on something silly/lame/stupid, he picks from a...
Jul 25th
Warch Watch
30 seconds of a day in the life of two years ago. I was trying (probably selfishly) to help out on...
Jul 25th
esquareda: Foxmarks works to keep all your bookmarks the...
Jul 25th
esquareda: The Sanctuary is a beautiful, simple solution to...
Jul 25th
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior...”
— Whitney Young (via...
Jul 25th
For some inexplicable reason, I found this poster completely...
Jul 25th
emilyposts: This Swiss goop (“Cyber Clean”) is a viscous...
Jul 25th
ryanjpointer:(via damour)
Jul 25th
It’s going to be this kind of day and I’m ok...
Jul 24th
dontshushme:marjoree: Heh.
Jul 23rd
Frogs Able to Hear Only the Sound of a...
Jul 23rd
““And now I cannot remember how I would have had it....”
— John Ashbery Poem printed...
Jul 23rd
“Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a...”
— Carl Sagan (via saramcpherson)
Jul 23rd
deviant art
Jul 23rd
kaitziskin: out of the ash i rise with my red hair and...
Jul 23rd

Remember when owning a pair of Umbros...

Jul 23rd
milkwasabadchoice: an inconvenient threat (via...
Jul 22nd
“We become what we think about all day long.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...
Jul 22nd
The abbaya perspective
Jul 22nd
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s...”
— Daniel Burnham, Architecht of...
Jul 22nd
“Eighty seven per cent of women in a healthy weight range...”
— This is bullshit. How annoying...
Jul 22nd
frangry: It annoys me when I’m on some random blog and I go to hit “Follow” and then I realize it’s...
Jul 22nd
“I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t...”
— a poem for swingers, a poem...
Jul 22nd
“Many of the best startups happened when someone needed...”
— Via Startups We’d Like...
Jul 21st
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
Jul 21st
kraabel: PLAN ON WEARING SANDALS  It’s convenient to...
Jul 21st
“If I’m really honest, this is bad. They (janjaweed) go to...”
— Ashis Brahma, camp doctor, the...
Jul 21st

Well in that case...

Me: I'm a little worried you didn't eat enough before basketball.
Kraabel: I had two cookies and some circus peanuts, so I'll be fine.
Jul 21st
The state fair starts in a month and I’m not going to...
Jul 21st
“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will...”
— Hemingway on writer’s block....
Jul 20th

poem without forgiveness by dean young

unicornology: The husband wants to be taken back into the family after behaving terribly, but...
Jul 20th
Drove up to my sleepy hometown today for the annual parade...
Jul 20th
I was thinking the other afternoon that I’d like to...
Jul 19th
motjuste: Consumerist: “You cringe over the price of a...
Jul 19th
meaghano: it’s been such a sweaty day. im starting to kind of enjoy it. it’s like we’re all burning...
Jul 19th

EXILE by Jeffrey McDaniel

scout: Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted...
Jul 19th
livejamie: Young Stormtroopers in Love (via RedandJonny) ...
Jul 19th
“I feel like I’m standing (let’s admit it, awkwardly) in the...”
Jul 18th
“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the...”
— Bill Watterson
Jul 18th
via I’m a big fan of the elegance of B&W winter...
Jul 18th
jeralyndwile:zalpz: I find this to be an amazingly shot...
Jul 17th
peterwknox: How have we not come up with a faster way to toast things by now? Oh my gosh, YES. God...
Jul 17th
Wrestling around under a terrible itch I can’t seem to scratch today….
Jul 17th
“But hold your breath, because tonight will be the night that...”
— Secondhand Serenade. You have...
Jul 17th

Eat your heart out Helen Steiner Rice...

So there’s this new song (New to me. Shut up, I’m 31 and prematurely old) that I continue to have...
Jul 17th
Why were American Pilots in World War II...
Jul 17th
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
— Leo Buscaglia (via...
Jul 17th
jessicap:(via meghanelizabeth) This struck me as really...
Jul 17th
Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for Living a Happy...
Jul 16th
Recommended hotels, beaches, parks, spas, and...
Jul 16th
"Steal Cheryl’s famous potato-salad recipe....
Jul 16th
“Unemployment is completely lost on the unemployed. When I...”
Jul 16th
Creepy freaking photo. Via Drudge.
Jul 16th

In Which More is Not in Fact More.

Lately, I can’t help over seasoning, over stimulating, really, everything I cook. Too much...
Jul 15th
Listen Listen
zonita: …been thinking - you just reminded me of Dinosaur Jr (Puke + Cry) - found this song on an...
Jul 15th
saramcpherson: Someone actually made a ZOMBIE GARDEN...
Jul 15th

In Which I am a Greedy Dreamer...

Ten things I want today:   Gummy worms (a little stale and chewy).   To be playing my parents’ old...
Jul 15th

A mile between us in the dark.

Last night K. and I argued before bed. It was one of those nights where you fall into a restless...
Jul 15th

As usual, you're beautiful. One of the...

ellebelle: For real. I’ve not been able to get this quote out of my mind. It’s...
Jul 15th
ThisIsSand.com
Jul 15th

Mamihlapinatapai...

meaghano claytoncubitt: Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the...
Jul 15th
“When you show a little crack in the armor, expose a little...”
Jul 14th

If you Forget Me

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red...
Jul 14th

Unhook that yoke...

I’m the absolute *worst* about savoring the moment. Life is damn good in this minute….K...
Jul 13th
Somehow, I feel like Kafka could get behind this…
Jul 13th
There’s my girl: Bat shit crazy and cute as a button.
Jul 13th
“I’m a mumbler. If I’m walking with a friend and I say...”
—  Mitch Hedberg (via...
Jul 12th
Tony Snow, Dead at 53 of Colon Cancer
Jul 12th
“Richie: Dad, you were never really dying. Royal: But I’m...”
— The Royal Tenenbaums (via...
Jul 12th
ericanicole: News leather moccasins from Jelly Belly’s gift...
Jul 12th
sarazucker: etsy highlight: avrillorati while you’re...
Jul 12th
“I think everybody should be worried about bugs crawling out...”
— Kraabel, tonight.
Jul 12th

Roaches

jakehurwitz: It’s hard for me to write this. I think I have a roach problem. They’re not crawling...
Jul 12th
unicornology; moment o’ silence (via moS.) Once I woke...
Jul 11th
“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke...”
—  Eat, Pray, Love (via doree)...
Jul 11th
“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet...”
— From “How to Become a Writer”...
Jul 10th
Every book Art Garfunkel has read since 1968
Jul 10th
“No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Jul 10th

Camelot, Redux.

Have you heard the rumor about Obama giving Caroline Kennedy the VP nod? It’s intriguing,...
Jul 10th
In other banal news, I have a girl crush on crazy zooey...
Jul 10th

A time for gross admissions.

fatmanatee: I used to watch Real World vs. Road Rules Challenge. Religiously. That’s...
Jul 10th
You shut your face. I’ll post adorable/terrifying...
Jul 10th
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad...”
— Chuck Palahniuk (via...
Jul 10th
““There is an effort in Japan to cut down on deaths from...”
— Labor bureau: Japanese man,...
Jul 10th
What a beautiful post. Thanks for capturing the weight of...
Jul 9th
I feel like Tumblr is the friend I met through Gawker back when we were dating. Since the breakup, I...
Jul 9th
“Stephen Hawking once said, “If time travel is real, where...”
— Simon Rich, Ant Farm (via...
Jul 9th
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all...”
— Sylvia Plath (via misscedar)...
Jul 9th
sophiescott:(Via Clara) I was thinking this very thing at...
Jul 8th
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I...”
— “Family Happiness”...
Jul 8th
I’d love to be here right now, torrents and...
Jul 8th

Things Kraabel is freaking out about:

1.) “Why do Tide pens smell bad? Why does it smell chemically? Why doesn’t it smell like...
Jul 7th

In which I realize I've lost it...

Script of email sent to the boyfriend mere moments ago, titled “There will be Blood:” ...
Jul 7th
seriouslythough:frangry:lovepuppy: I just woke up to a...
Jul 7th
We watched “Teeth” last night and I have to admit it was actually incredibly...
Jul 7th
weily: Post seventh re-read of Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood...
Jul 7th
scout:beccaginns: you walked into the party like you were...
Jul 6th
sarazucker: after wandering through albums on flickr as i...
Jul 6th
I guess I can’t understand why the great green lobby...
Jul 4th
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I...”
— Swedish Proverb (via...
Jul 4th
Three Rescued US Hostages Return from...
Jul 3rd
I took myself out on a date tonight:  Amazing penang curry,...
Jul 3rd
“[It’s] as though you had heard so much loud music you...”
— It was on this day in 1961...
Jul 3rd
Does human nature compel us to constantly have a nemesis? It seems my mind is a formulaic movie and...
Jul 2nd
“One democracy has never committed an act of war against...”
— According to the radio this...
Jul 2nd
I’m feeling nostalgic for travel this morning.  More...
Jul 2nd

3 Movie Characters I Identify With

Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) Lelaina Pierce (Reality Bites) Rob Gordon (High Fidelity) ...
Jul 1st

turpentine.

I watch you grow away from me in photographs And memories like spies And salt betrays my eyes...
Jul 1st
Yesterday morning as I was walking in to the office, a coworker passed me and said “You look...
Jul 1st
“Hey - those pants are really slimming on you.”
— Anyone want to explain to my...
Jul 1st
bmroberts: As a media researcher, I have serious concerns...
Jul 1st
“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door...”
— Alexandre Dumas (via mascarah)
Jul 1st
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I...”
— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran (via...
Jul 1st