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Sat, 18 May 2013 20:22:22 -0700

loveyourchaos: All I Want Is You /// Barry Louis Polisar

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:11:04 -0700

All I Want Is You /// Barry Louis Polisar

"It’s not that we’re more tolerant and imaginative, though we are. It’s just that we love being..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:10:36 -0700

“It’s not that we’re more tolerant and imaginative, though we are. It’s just that we love being bonded by our shared sense of the ridiculous. We love the idea of a universe held together by a bit of tinsel and glitter.”

- Paul Magrs, Queers Dig Time Lords

Ugh, you guys, I posted the first part of this paragraph earlier before I EVEN FINISHED THE PARAGRAPH AND THIS PART IS PERFECT TOO! I messed up.

kimyadawson: I was sitting on a bench when a girl around 5 yrs...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:06:42 -0700

kimyadawson:

I was sitting on a bench when a girl around 5 yrs old, in a fancy party dress, looked me in the eye & said “Why do you look like a monster?”

And I was like….

riotriotboi: 90s heartthrob alert.

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:06:19 -0700

riotriotboi:

90s heartthrob alert.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 20:05:39 -0700

dirtygem: suaveperochingona: I got asked to be a part of “She...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:04:44 -0700

dirtygem:

suaveperochingona:

I got asked to be a part of “She Rides Her Own Way” and I am aware it’s saying “she” but a lot of the community don’t know about my pronouns yet. Or rather, they’re working on it. But I couldn’t pass this up! We need more brown folks on bikes and getting access to knowledge about bikes, especially with Grand Rapids getting bigger and the busses always being full. Also, supporting the local bike shops is a biggie as well.

So many thanks to Generation X & Y, Freewheeler Bike Shop and to Johanna Jelks and Ashley Triệu. Love you ladies!

Also, these are out takes of me bein’ a dingus. I cannot model but THAT DOESN’T MEAN I CAN’T HAVE FUN.

every time i see photos of this person on tumblr they are the best ever and make me so happy. these are so good!!!

wallsofdust: Bastille - Bad Blood If we’re only ever looking...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:04 -0700

wallsofdust:

Bastille - Bad Blood

If we’re only ever looking back
We will drive ourselves insane
As the friendship goes resentment grows
We will walk our different ways

best-of-funny: steamedcrab: so i was watching the news and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:00:59 -0700

best-of-funny:

steamedcrab:

so i was watching the news and this 2nd grader wrote this to the president, vice president, and a congressman. biden was the only one to respond yet. LITERALLY.

X

heavenly-atheist: that’s right. (please ignore the unicurl)

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:59:56 -0700

heavenly-atheist:

that’s right.

(please ignore the unicurl)

"Read trade magazines for trades you don’t actually practice, or repair manuals, or guides to human..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:59:31 -0700

“Read trade magazines for trades you don’t actually practice, or repair manuals, or guides to human anatomy…read things that are very ancient, Assyrian prayers, ancient sagas…there is information all over the place that can expand our sense of what language can do.”

- M.T. Anderson, in answer to a question at his recent reading at Powell’s. (via ryansara)

librar-y: Seabreeze - Daytona, Florida. Circa 1904.

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:57:41 -0700

librar-y:

Seabreeze - Daytona, Florida. Circa 1904.

You know, when you have kids and you love them and you’re proud...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:53:45 -0700

You know, when you have kids and you love them and you’re proud of them you just want to kiss them on the mouth sometimes.

"Straight men love special effects that look real. Queers love stuff that looks as if it’s been made..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:49:31 -0700

“Straight men love special effects that look real. Queers love stuff that looks as if it’s been made out of washing up liquid bottles and sticky-backed plastic and egg boxes.”

- Paul Magrs, in Queers Dig Time Lords

YOU GUYSSSS I have just started reading this book and I am already FREAKING OUT WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE IT EVERY SENTENCE IS PERFECT.

Spring

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:16:29 -0700

richardlawson:

After work today I met up with an old coworker from my brief, inglorious stint at TV.com. She’s visting New York, thinking about moving here, and just wanted to talk about how that might happen. Y’know, how to look for jobs, where to live, what to do. A capital D Do, maybe. It was nice to see her — she was just out of college when we briefly worked together, and now she’s not; she’s lovely and self-assured and older in a graceful and good way — and it was nice to talk about New York, the potential of it, all the weird process of living here, the strange and difficult joy.

I’m in a silly, wistful mood right now, yes because I’m someone prone to wistfulness, but also because I just watched the American Idol season finale and The Office’s series finale and there’s something about a hopeful but melancholy ending, synthetic as it might be, that just gets me. It was oddly perfect timing to have a drink with her tonight, to be with someone from the past, considering her future, on a really gorgeous day in Soho. The world offers funny, perfect context sometimes.

On my way into the office this afternoon I stopped to pick up lunch and ended up walking down Crosby Street, right past the old storefront we used to work out of in older Gawker days. And I don’t know, maybe I just had that, well, sense of an ending, but I found myself thinking about the day, years ago, when I took a long lunch from my midtown ticket-selling job and went down there to interview for a job. Standing inside by the door for an awkward while before I walked out to make sure I had the right building. I stood on the sidewalk for a few minutes, unsure what to do, before deciding to go back in and just be brave and introduce myself.

As I walked down that street today I tried to picture myself, six years ago, standing out there, debating with myself, nervous and expectant and wanting things to move forward. The street’s different now, there’s a big hotel there now and the storefront is some Australian boutique. In the corniest of ways I wanted to feel myself back there, still in that thrilling, liminal place of not knowing, scared of both possibility and past. I wished for a second that I could feel myself passing through myself like a ghost, waving hello to an old me. I didn’t feel that, though. I just walked past the old building, past the new hotel, and turned the corner and headed into work.

It’s probably good that I didn’t see my ghost. That I don’t haunt streets, that I just remember what they used to be. That I still get sad at the end of silly TV shows despite an acquired impulse that tells me to find it all suspect. And that I still have hopeful and happy things to say about this place where I live, saying to someone, yes, all this, all this wild and wonderful stuff, it could be yours, too.

When I think I smell a baked good

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:56:31 -0700

whatshouldwecallme:

“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:55:02 -0700

“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that the point?”

mingdoyle: Development sketches and the final label for Heroine...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:53:27 -0700

mingdoyle:

Development sketches and the final label for Heroine Chardonnay 2011, by Iconic Wine.

stfuconservatives: smdxn: Eliz. Warren wants to cut student...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:55:24 -0700

stfuconservatives:

smdxn:

Eliz. Warren wants to cut student interest rates to near zero

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has introduced her first piece of legislation. It’s called the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, and would reduce the rate students pay on federally-subsidized student loans for one year, from 3.4% to 0.75%.

Without congressional action, on July 1 the rate is set to double from 3.4% to 6.8%.

Warren brings up an interesting point – her bill simply asks students to pay the same rates that big banks pay for borrowing.

She’s literally just asking if college grads can get the same deal as bank CEOs. The exact same interest rate. Not even a bailout or anything fancy (pipe dreams!) - just the same interest rate.

theoofoof: Last Tango in Halifax winning ‘Best Drama’ at the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:06:08 -0700

theoofoof:

Last Tango in Halifax winning ‘Best Drama’ at the BAFTA Television Awards 2013

YAYYYYY!