December 2008
22 posts
The National - Baby, We’ll Be Fine
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Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed
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Compare and contrast.
alexbalk:
Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.
Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.
They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner. Many held the view if someone is...
The Mountain Goats - International Small Arms...
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A sampling of the contents of an 'End-of-Semester...
One pack of ramen
Two pencils
A can of Blue Sky White Tea Soda (Pomegranate)
A Nature Valley Oats n’ Honey Granola Bar
A bag of Goldfish Snack Crackers
A Ziploc bag of a freshly-baked brownie
Two juice boxes
A PowerBar
Various candies and chocolates
Several packets of Emergen-C
Finals? Bring it on.
Tonight, I passed my Swing Dance final by...
And it was fantastically bad.
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vaginas!
One expert writing in 1962 sternly warns women to leave the clitoris alone: “If there has been much manual stimulation of the clitoris it may be reluctant to abandon control, or the vagina may be unwilling to accept the combined role of arbiter of sensation and vehicle of reproduction.”
Cause women can’t want babies and sex.
This is from David Halperin’s article about...
email exchanges, condensed into chat form
mom: Hey, where should we send this form?
me: [gives address]
mom: Thanks. Hey, are you sure you're not forgetting anything?
me: Yep.
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me: [looking at the calendar, gradually realizes what the date is] shitshitshitshitshit
me: [dashes off quick email] HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA
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Writing by committee
sucks.
Also, you get about five different colors of comments in the margins.
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Random thing from last summer
A former teacher from high school was visiting her friend, who I was staying with, a couple of summers ago. She and her family had been driving around a few states before visiting us, and they started telling me about the places they had visited.
‘Then we went to the creation museum in Kentucky, and checked out the solar system exhibit…’
I laughed, because the thought of a creation...
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“Dein Leben ist sehr interessant, glaub’ ich.”
– My professor, after he asked me about my weekend in German class.
Today, because our group had to write a dialogue set in a restaurant, we needed the line ‘the youth of today are really bad’ (of course), and he gave us a strange look and said ‘I’m trying to figure you guys...