April 2012
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March 2012
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“Realizing the dream of space is worth any number of broken hearts.”
– Steven Ray Orr, Feathers and Wax
February 2012
12 posts
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Zelda Doesn't Need Saving
Tevis Thomson, regarding The Legend of Zelda:
The point of a hero’s adventure (and Zelda is the hero’s adventure in gaming) is not to make you feel better about yourself. The point is to grow, to overcome, to in some way actually become better. If a legendary quest has no substantial challenge, if it asks nothing of you except that you jump through the hoops it so carefully lays out for you,...
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I hate watching my heroes fall, honestly or...
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It turns out that you were all right. Doctor Who...
Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!
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Lately, I've been feeling really anxious when...
I swear to god. She took my self-confidence in the divorce. Apparently that shit isn’t like when you cut off a finger — it doesn’t just magically grow back.
“Week by week, year by year, this is the life we’ve chosen, and we’re trying to...”
– Nathan Deuel
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I hate you, Aaron Sorkin.
I call myself a writer. There are times where I believe that the craft is the only task in this world that I am here for. When I let ink flow from my pen to paper, I feel the possibility for brilliance and beauty and majesty. There is absolutely nothing that gets me higher than the careful construction of letters into words, of words into sentences, and of sentences into art. It is how I touch...
Sports Night has a laugh track? Fuck that shit.
I’m out.
Update: Avery is right. This show is amazing. That took almost no time. I miss Aaron Sorkin.
I'm the Brian Herbert of folks who haven't...
This is why you couldn’t pay me enough money to do an authorized sequel [to Mostly Harmless], because I know that there would be people out there like me waiting to write reviews like this about it.
- John Seavey, on Eion Coffer’s ‘And Another Thing’
If someone came up to me and said, “I’d like you to write the final chapter in the The...
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“The measure of a successful relationship has absolutely nothing to do with the...”
January 2012
26 posts
can i just say fuck it all and quit everything?
petuniaspacepeep:
i think that’s a mature, responsible response to the situation, right?
No. You can’t. If I can get my stupid ass out of bed and run in the middle of the night, you don’t get to quit everything.
KISSES!
Abby is misrepresenting me on twitter.
She is lying to the Internet. SHE IS A WOMAN OF LIES. I AM SURE THE BIBLE HAS A QUOTE THAT FITS THIS SITUATION WELL:
Oh. Well then. I’ll shut up now.
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I find myself crying at ambulances on television...
These last few months have been good. I have been exercising daily, eating more regularly, and trying to recognize the moments before I nosedive into “that place”. That place where there is no such thing as heaven, where I shout four letter words at the top of my lungs into pillows. But those low places are higher than they used to be and I have been moving, at a steady pace, closer to...
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If you like The West Wing for more the just the...
We all learn, at a very young age, that we pay for our sins with blood. The pain that comes with time teaches us that we likewise pay for our successes. But if we walk unerringly, with clear eyes and full hearts, we cannot lose.
I write. That is how I experience the world and it always has been. But in Dillon, Texas, they live in anticipation of the next friday night when darkness will...
TIME 2 TRAVEL: YOUR GUIDE TO THE END OF THE... →
time2travelguide:
Normally in a Travel article this is the point where someone writes the “things to see and do” bit, but the problem with the end of everything is that there is only nothing to see, and the only thing to do is look at the nothing.
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Anonymous asked: himym is not stupid ;)
A friend recently sent me an email. There were a...
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“I decided to read up on that war some. I went to a library… It was a building...”
– Palm Sunday, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse. Kurt Vonnegut. (via aninsufferableknowitall)
It appears to be one of those days in which I am...
Brains are weird.
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This. Even though HIMYM is stupid.
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Scranton Elm Disease
Andy Greenwald, for Grantland:
The American Office, quite rightly, differentiated itself from the outset: In the New World, the workplace wasn’t a sad metaphor for the crushed dreams and dreary reality of adulthood. Rather, it was an allegory for family, the screwed-up group of misfits one gets stuck with and learns to, if not love, then tolerate.
Minutes unto hours. Hours to days. Days to...
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Define your bullshit-fucking-terms before you use...
Sharon Kirkey, for Postmedia News:
Results of a new study suggest people who cannot control, cut back or stop their use of the Internet have abnormal white matter structure in the brain similar to what is seen in cocaine and crystal-meth addicts.
No.
Stop it.
Just. Stop it.
What do you mean when you say “the Internet”? Are we talking about the habit of getting caught up in Wikipedia...
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I have got a draft sitting in my mailbox addressed...
I probably wanted to borrow their legos — unless Avery calls them something other than legos like “builder blocks” or “kiddie bricks” or some other such nonsense. In which case, she can keep her damn tinker toys.
What really happened: sometimes I get all serious and want to tell people that I appreciate them or think they are worthwhile people so I send them an...
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“Why should proponents of same-sex marriage care about ensuring the fairness of...”
– Steven Ray Orr
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“The most important thing that happened in 2011 was the decision by the European...”
– Giles Turnbull, for The Morning News
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
STOP SPOILING TV SHOWS WITH YOUR GOD DAMN .GIFS.
Kthxbai!
Hard night.
Fuck.
I'm a very busy woman and I haven't got all day:... →
clapifyoulikeme:
We are surrounded by a buffalo herd of witnesses of generations who have fallen on before. Going back to the time of Clark Gable, who came to this storm cellar to bring the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to the time of the Goths, who came here also to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, who stated that they merrily laid down their lives – literally as kiss – so that the...
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I must miss my political theory classes a whole...
Rick Santorum is happy with first place in Iowa, although he should not be: his campaign has neither the national drive nor the funding to be able to succeed on a larger scale. This is a case of winning a battle that has absolutely no bearing on the overall war.
Really, I just felt the need to post something on my blog while I’m busy working on SUPER SECRET PROJECT. It is worth noting...
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I just spent an hour arranging and then...
I am the Sisyphus of people who play Skyrim. That is to say, I am an idiot: “there is some sort of overarching story about dragons and saving the world from them? I do not understand. Is that in one of the books I haven’t collected yet? TELL ME WHERE IT IS!”
December 2011
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Avery is eating GOLDEN OREOS.
clapifyoulikeme:
We’re so over.
Of greater concern, she calls them fucking biscuits.
Avery, you and me are over! I am going to run away with Abby.
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That's right. It's coming.
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama has an official name: The Newsroom. Originally known as More As The Story Develops, then as ‘TBA,’ the show’s title was debuted via HBO’s 2012 teaser reel and confirmed by Deadline.
Fucking SQUEE!
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rcrawf:
Eyes forward. The past is gone.
Good news, folks. My grandmother decided not to go...
SERIOUS TITLE IS SERIOUS.
Tonight, my grandmother said she was going to bed...
So, happy holidays!
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Fine then, Internet friends. Focus on judging me...
I JUST WANTED TO FIT IN! Now I’ll never be cool.
But for serious, how the hell do I start Doctor Who? I can only rewatch The West Wing so many times before it gets old.
Actually, that’s not true. I do not need you bastards! I am going to watch Josh and touch myself in my no-no parts until the desire to watch Doctor Who goes away.