July 2011
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“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol: In His Own Words)
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“The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your...”
– Helen Mirren, interview, May 25, 2011 in Esquire (via mlq3)
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oslo
i am so sad about what’s happening in oslo. having been a part of a community post a random shooting spree, my hearts really go out to those families and the people in norway. there is so much senseless violence in the world and it can’t be quantified, of course, but something about a person showing up somewhere with a gun and killing a bunch of people they don’t know, at random,...
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dear minnesota,
minneapolis is cool, saint paul is charming, you have amazing food from the asian continent, your music scene is incredible. but.
your weather fucking sucks. you have delivered me from the worst winter of my whole life to the worst summer of my whole life—which in many ways is worse than the winter. i have never experienced weather this abysmal, even in other countries that are not first...
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a place of greater safety by hilary mantel
well, so. wow. this book took me four months to read! that’s frickin’ crazy. and i took a month off in the middle to read a bad paranormal romance because, y’know. i needed a break.
this book is probably the most difficult book i’ve ever read, or at least the most difficult book i’ve read in a long time. i love hillary mantel, that’s why i picked it up, but...
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writing n' stuff
i think it’s really funny when i leave myself a list of words on a post-it on my desktop to help me remember things i want to do in my book, but then add no context so that later when i read them i have no clue what i wanted to do with these words or what ideas they inspired. here’s my current list written as it appears on my post-it:
cotton gins, plumbing, bookname, darkling, covered...
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dear tumblr,
(/dear readers because i am interested in what you think),
what the fuck is up with tumblr being like an anorexia hub? what the hell? it is normally fairly easy for me to navigate the internet without being exposed to blogs of girls who are trying to starve themselves into skeletons. does anyone else have this problem? i have had to unfollow two blogs (that weren’t even fashion blogs or...
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