June 2011
51 posts
No, I do not think it is hypocritical that I was horrified by the existence of a Counting Crows cover of “Night Moves” while really craving a listen to Bob Seger’s original. You know? There’s soft rock, and then there’s soft rock.
neyruto:
did oyu haear lasdy gaga walked right into sensate wearing nothing but a gay flag and punched jorge bush in the face NOW gay marige is legal thanks to her :-)
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What if ee cummings just didn't know how to work...
mecharanger:
je sus fu c k i ng chris t how do e s thi s t ype w r i t er w o r k
-e.e. cummings
“The story gets even worse as it goes along, with Zimmerman ending up back at...”
– Patrick Goldstein, discussing a recent “interview” of Chris Evans for GQ (via heathicorn)
I think the real embarrassment here is Patrick Goldstein, who seems to think there is any good way at all of doing a puff celebrity profile. They’re always going to come out discussing what the celebrity...
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This is probably the best blog post I've ever... →
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“The Daedalus and Icarus ballet” is an invention of translator Robert Graves. The original Latin is Icarus primo statim conatu iuxta cubiculum eius decidit ipsumque cruore respersit. (Icarus, straight away in his first attempt, fell next to his (Nero’s) viewing-box and spattered him with blood.) I like both Graves’s translation and the original here. They’re both so...
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Themes, redux
Have you ever realized how many themes obscure your tags? I didn’t, until I spent an hour of my life in Tumblr’s frustrating Theme Garden. Oh well, I guess my tags will just be a fun secret thing for the people who are actually following me (all 5 of them).
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WatchCall to prayer in Seljuk, Turkey, from the ruins of St. Jean’s church
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Themes
I’m kind of sick of the precious black-on-white minimalist Tumblr themes and can’t even look at the twee clip art ones, so let’s try out this fucking nebula for a while.
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I miss Turkey.
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From the Hulu reviews of "The World According to...
What is she doing to hurt anyone, she is beautiful and kind…Just enjoying her Life and blessings….The more some hate, the more others grow and find joy in day to day relationships, like Paris does with her friends…If you had the money, you would spend it to..Jealousy Get over yourselves
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our...”
– Sarah Palin, attempting to explain Paul Revere’s ‘Midnight Ride’
The only thing missing from that quote is “I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa, and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as.”
[Video of Palin]
(via mattchew03)
