January 2012
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sarahchristine:
Feist: The Bad In Each Other
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thesoviette asked: I AM GLAD THAT YOU ARE BACK.
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word of the day : gratuitous prefixes edition
apperception
“If the poet is a kitten engaged in chasing his own tail, the philosopher is a...”
– T. S. Eliot, unpublished 1943 lecture
“(The eclecticist interpreter assumes that A and Z are different but can be...”
– Jeffrey M. Perl, “Skepticism and Modern Emnity” (1989)
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If you want to have a conversation with me any...
it will have to be about one of these things:
1) T. S. Eliot’s epistemology (this is not the ideal choice)
2) OMFG ABFAB
3) Ways in which Chicago is superior to Baltimore.
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“The Christian and the unbeliever do not, and cannot, behave very differently in...”
– T.S. Eliot, in a rare moment of misguided optimism (“The Idea of a Christian Society,” 1939)
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“For his New Year’s resolution, Mayor Emanuel has decided to confront what he...”
– Rahm swears off swearing for 2012
[via] (via neighborhoodr-chicago)
I really hope this manifests itself in that strange sort of Liz Lemon half-swearing that people do in front of children. “Some son of a blerg is trying to tell you I want to curtail your right to peaceable assembly?...
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I don't even remember
where I used to find all the shit I posted here. I guess…tumblr?
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Dear Washington Post,
I can think of nothing I would less enjoy than the opportunity to “Listen to Scarlett Johansson Cover the Brigitte Bardot Part of ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’”
Sincerely, Nora
August 2011
11 posts
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Daily Historical Mindfuck
“Plutarch reports in his Life of Alexander that the Macedonian conquerer carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, which he kept under his pillow, together with a dagger; later he placed the poem in a precious casket that had been captured from the defeated Persian king Darius.”
from David Quint, Epic and Empire (Princeton UP, 1993)
I don’t know why exactly this blows my...
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otherwiseiwouldforget asked: Everything you do makes me so happy.
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July 2011
10 posts
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January 15, 2006 part II
ambassadorbridge:
Nora: god, rip torn. the mark of a good movie is when rip torn is third on the cast list
Freddy Got Fingered?
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“But Keats and Shelley died, and Tennyson and Browning ruminated.”
– T. S. Eliot, “The Metaphysical Poets”
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interesting things going on in my life
there is an all-female CDOT crew out repainting the arrows on the speed bumps
that’s it, really
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To the stupid fucks setting off fireworks
there are usually some pretty deep discounts on calendars this late in the year.
May 2011
19 posts
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“She never slept at home after the third date.”
– File under: Things I didn’t really need to know about Donatella Arpaia
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so worry not
all things are well we’ll be all right we have our looks and perfume
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“Milos…is ‘a Balkan sex god,’ the Nikola Tesla of fornication,...”
– A. O. Scott
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“As an adult, you’ve developed a carefully honed aptitude for sarcasm....”
– What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life