December 2010
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Blowdryer wishes and flat iron dreams.
Just blew out my hair for NYE festivities. It’s the first time I’ve seen it straight in over three years. I look like a Diana Ross buttrocker Barbie with a thing for the Ronettes. I’m not sure whether I hate or love this - I think it’s a little of both.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via playingpretend)
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via playingpretend)
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neutresex:
Embracing genders and existing in genders is as revolutionary as rejecting/abolishing/destroying/neglecting genders.
We’ve got to be able to recognize that genders can be powerful, beautiful, liberating, and meaningful tools just as we are able to recognize that genders can be destructive, harmful, and restricting.
“The past isn’t past; it’s still shaping the present. But even more than that, I...”
– John Green, (vlogbrothers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZsLYxaIuM via clooimx. (via tobia)
This is one of the many reasons that I study history (though I’ll not be doing so in a classroom ever again). It’s fascinating business.
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“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I...”
– Sylvia Plath’s unabridged journals (via sylviaplathismylove)
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“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I...”
– Sylvia Plath’s unabridged journals (via sylviaplathismylove)
“The queer, unlike the polite categories of gay and lesbian, revels in the...”
– - Sue-Ellen Case, “Tracking the Vampire” (via arctolatry)
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“The queer, unlike the polite categories of gay and lesbian, revels in the...”
– - Sue-Ellen Case, “Tracking the Vampire” (via arctolatry)
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Ella Fitzgerald Midnight Sun
How to Feel...
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it's a lovely universe in us all: “Self-respect is... →
oceanofmind:
“Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as or faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and...
James Brown Christmas in Heaven
My fave song on...
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Shocker: Harvard Grad Avoids Jail for Heinous... →
For two hours on Halloween last year, Harvard Law School graduate Brian Schroeder built a bonfire in the Manhattan 9/11 chapel out of photos and mementos of people killed in the WTC attacks. His lawyer argued that his client was “profoundly intoxicated” during the arson, and may even have been drugged. And yesterday Schroeder himself told the judge, “I drank many alcoholic...
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Shocker: Harvard Grad Avoids Jail for Heinous... →
For two hours on Halloween last year, Harvard Law School graduate Brian Schroeder built a bonfire in the Manhattan 9/11 chapel out of photos and mementos of people killed in the WTC attacks. His lawyer argued that his client was “profoundly intoxicated” during the arson, and may even have been drugged. And yesterday Schroeder himself told the judge, “I drank many alcoholic...
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A Survival Guide for the 26-35 Age Range in 2011... →
2011 is fast approaching, and along with it, extended tax cuts, extended jobless benefits, higher unemployment, more poverty, and the slow realization that life will never again be the way your parents might have had it. Here are some tips to get you through all that inevitable existential despair.
Made me laugh/wince.
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