January 2012
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There’s a 50/50 chance I will fall asleep right before midnight. And a 100% chance my downstairs neighbors will wake me up at 11:59.
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Guys. I knit so much better when I’ve had wine. Also, thank Gaia for autocorrect…
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Omg. Portlandia. Stop it. You are hilarious.
DON'T DRIVE DRUNK.
From 6pm-6am on New Year’s Eve/Day AAA will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE, member or not: 800-222-4357
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Resolution #3
Read more. I am like five or six issues behind on New York. And I was just loaned Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Time to get on it! (Note: Resolution #2 miiiiight have already started…)
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December 2011
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Resolution #1
Wear more dresses. To work, to play, wherever.
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Things I don't understand
(or “Why I miss the ol’ days”)
1. The continued deterioration of the English language into text/IM language. Am I that old or do the things young people post to their Facebook pages make no sense anymore? Why must everything have an acronym?
2. The lack of suits and/or dressing appropriately. I don’t go to church or believe in god, but I’d still put on a nice...
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My Christmas Menu
(I don’t care that you don’t care about it. I’m excited!)
Christmas Eve Dinner
Feast of Seven Fishes (at Vesta Trattoria & Wine Bar)
Breakfast
(Bisquick) Biscuits & (Homemade) Gravy
Eggs (from locally-raised, grain-fed, free-range chickens, of course!)
Bacon (nitrate-free, of course!)
Dinner
Sugar-and-Spice-Crusted Duck Breast (via Kitchen of Light)
Garlicky...
Dirt Bag: Charlize Theron Doesn't Trust Grown-Ass... →
(via @Jezebel)
Charlize Theron thinks that women are “messed up” and is pointing the finger of blame squarely at Hello Kitty. Yep, Hello Kitty. “I’m pretty amazed by Hello Kitty. I see so many women in their 30s walking around in Hello Kitty shit and nobody is concerned for them,” she said. “It’s the one iconic teenage symbol that seems okay for women...
Jenna: What do you mean I don’t have an obituary? I’m Jenna Maroney. I played...
– (via kimmyswimmy)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...
– Mark Twain (via quote-book)
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
R.I.P.: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 →
(via @Gawker)
Christopher Hitchens, the Clinton-loathing, religion-mocking, Kurd-loving, war-mongering, ball-waxing British drunk who contained multitudes and seemed to be insulting you somehow even when you agreed with him, which was precisely 59% of the time, has died of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 62… (read more)
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is...
– Jean-Paul Sartre
kleiq-deactivated20120325 asked: I'm also toying with the idea of taking up knitting again. I gave up the first time after throwing the needles and yarn across the room...
Lalalalala! I'm not listening! →
Via NYT: Beware of Raw Cookie Dough
A new study that investigated the cause of a large outbreak of E. coli in 2009 pointed the blame at raw cookie dough.
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This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...
– Relevant magazine
(via Diana : megburns : haygirlhay : luciwithani)
The math is the math. You can’t lower current (tax) rates and raise revenue...
– President BARACK OBAMA, responding to Republican charges that he is “fixated” on “raising the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans,” on 60 Minutes.
This whole thing, summarized so simply and yet the conservative element in these United States continues to pretend not to understand the sheer,...
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To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t really get the...
– Louis CK, on his new special, Live at the Beacon, which is only available via his site. (via kaseyanderson) Amen. (via soupsoup)
Co-signed by Wil. (via wilwheaton)
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I decided to take up knitting. I can’t even figure out how to do the first stitch. It is infuriating…
I won the “I give grants by day but by night will kick your ass in darts” award at my office holiday party. I. Am. Speechless.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of...
– Kahlil Gibran, SAND AND FOAM (1926)