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Permalink snowstorminjuly: Last night, I was introduced to an awesome game called “Gloom” and I want to play it all the time: The world of Gloom is a sad and benighted place. The sky is gray, the tea is cold, and a new tragedy lies around every corner. Debt, disease, heartache, and packs of rabid flesh-eating mice — just when it seems like things can’t get any worse, they do. But some say that one’s reward in the afterlife is based on the misery endured in life. If so, there may yet be hope — if not in this world, then in the peace that lies beyond.In the Gloom card game, you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits and misanthropes. The goal of the game is sad, but simple: you want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death. You’ll play horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Mocked by Midgets on your own characters to lower their Self-Worth scores, while trying to cheer your opponents’ characters with marriages and other happy occasions that pile on positive points. The player with the lowest total Family Value wins. Oh my god, this sounds amazing! Can we add this to our weekly tea-party/game night?
Permalink homeconomics: fun foto of the day 1.23.12 a polaroid in one of my hometown cornfields. grafton, MA.  Aww, represent for Grafton! I also have a very similar polaroid although there are A LOT of cornfields in my town so who knows if it’s the same one. I remember driving there in my best friend’s beautiful white Camaro and lying there for an afternoon shielded by corn stalks baking in the sun. Most of my early high school memories that I love are lying around in places with Janine. Love this picture for reminding me of that.
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She eats paper.

Permalink clubmonaco: Harney & Sons Tea Harney & Sons tea is one of my winter pleasures since I don’t drink coffee. I enjoyed this particular cup at the Cornell Club in NYC. -F.E. Castleberry Harney & Sons Tea was one of the better parts of my barista experience, although I am an avid espresso drinker mostly. I love the pyramid shaped smoothly synthetic tea bags and the lush bitterness of their Early Grey. It is a nice treat for when you are a little lazy but a little rich. Perhaps not to be enjoyed ever at the Cornell Club though. Come on, Castleberry.
Permalink styleite: Chanel’s Numéro Privés party RULED. (We were there!) But who looked best? Okay but these are some unfortunate pictures. Weird backgrounds, strange proportions. If these beauties didn’t look pregnant they looked stunted. I have to say though, some guest list. I am impressed as always?
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Permalink styleite: Givenchy on Givenchy on Givenchy. Take notes, Vera Bradley.
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Silent Killer

  • Me: Today is so weird. I had lunch with S, J and C because I accidentally ran into them in Ham. It was fun. I really like J! She can be a little scary and ruthless during board games but she seems incredibly well-read.
  • Mary: Yep
  • Me: What are you up to? I finished reading Hemingway for class last night and today I am reading all the additional material. I need this to be memorialized. I not only read a book for class but I also read the supplementary articles!? When did I become such a first year?
  • Mary: lol
  • Me: I'm almost done with my readings now though. Thinking about watching a movie. Want in? Also my dad is coming and we might go across the street to get a coffee or something. I would really like it if you could join? I don't think Anna will be back in time.
  • Mary: ?
  • This is everyday for me. I would also like you to know that she declined the movie and coffee invitations both.
  • Roommates, can't live without 'em but sometimes you gotta.
Permalink theparisreview: First Impressions If this little story doesn’t get your blood racing, nothing will.
Permalink nickmiller: Read my interview with Bloginity here. My twitter I’m really excited to read Isn’t It Pretty to Think So. So excited in fact that I won’t even read the excerpts that Nick Miller has been posting because I really am looking forward to getting my copy of the book this spring, sitting down, and reading the hell out of it. That’s how I imagine Nick Miller would have read or experienced it. So I was also excited to read this interview: to know more about this guy that I think is doing something pretty great. Unfortunately everything about this interview seemed incredibly banal and rehearsed and perfect and blah. That’s not at all who Nick strikes me as, I mean check out that sweet picture of him using a burning page to light his cigarette? Too cool, right? What’s not too cool is this weird person in this interview that had just the right amount of Catholic-school-suburban-upbringing mixed with a picture perfect progression of liberal-arts-school-20th-century-fixation. Look, we all have that, we’re all that person in this generation. I am excited for this book because I think it’s a product of this common experience that says something new and interesting about it. I mean I think this book is daring. So I imagined that Nick Miller was pretty daring as well. I don’t want to sound really harsh, I’m not leveling any claims against him or the interviewer. I am just…surprised at what I see here. So maybe I would really like to see another interview, maybe one where he is asked his thoughts on Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad and he gives a really honest and hopefully somewhat-scathing review?
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Permalink darklamb: But then again, you may prefer something less constructed. These two gowns also shown at Christian Dior haute couture Spring 2012 were just as beautiful and eye-catching with the precise draping that looks so nonchalant, the skirts that skim the body, the graceful lines… dreamy. (images via vogue.com) But I think Dior has always been about structure and paid close attention to the construction of their dresses, literally. I love the precise, controlled, expression of this collection because the result are dresses that are graceful, elegant and dreamy which people wouldn’t really think could be the result of such a meticulous process. It’s not just about overt balance, it’s about not creating a dichotomy in the first place. I believe that philosophically and I love how well this collection is stating that.
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LimeRed

sardonicqueen:

There is place in Amherst,MA called Limered. It’s a teahouse that serves bubble tea and dumplings. You might wonder what makes this place worth mentioning since bubble tea seems to be everywhere these days. Well, this place is special. It is run by Ray and Joe. Two awesome guys who cultivated an atmosphere where people come for a sugar rush and stay for the company.

I love hanging out with my friends at Limered and I will miss it when I graduate. If you are ever in the Pioneer Valley stop by and tell them Mary said hi.

Also if you tell them Mary says hi they will ask you for her number because they love her there. They don’t love any of us as much even though we are there almost once every other day.

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Jocelyn knows I’m waiting for Bennie. But Bennie is waiting for Alice, who’s waiting for Scotty, who’s waiting for Jocelyn. Jocelyn is waiting for Lou.
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for.