January 2012
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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...
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“Jocelyn knows I’m waiting for Bennie. But Bennie is waiting for Alice, who’s...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad (via facethedawn)
I don’t know if I’ll ever understand what it is that people like about this passage because it’s not true. Is that why? There is no girl that nobody is waiting for, you know that right?
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Something Sweet to Throw Away →
lifeofthings:
my favorite part: “The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
“You are not a...
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Martin on his female characters
Facebook question: What was your intent in providing such female characters of strength in a genre that typically reduces them to witches, wives, and whores?
George R. R. Martin: To be fair, I have my share of witches, wives, and whores. But I try to make them fully fleshed out human witches, wives, and whores. It all goes back to what I said earlier about common humanity. It seems strange that I have to say this, as a sort of weirdly radical statement, but women are people and they are driven by the same desires that drive men, I think. A desire for respect and power, a desire to protect your children. Greed for money, for acclaim, everyone wants to be loved. It is all common humanity. I just try to write my female characters as I write my male characters. I do take into account it is a very patriarchal society. They are limited to certain roles, some of them fit comfortably within the roles their Westerosi society assigned them. And some of them cannot fit comfortably into those roles, and therefore encounter a certain amount of rejection, or tension, or ridicule as they try to pursue their own dreams or as they frustrate their own dreams. All this is great, all this is conflict, it is character tension, it is what story is all about, the human heart in conflict with itself once again. One of the things that pleases me to no end is that I have so many female readers. They do write me, all the time, that they do like my female characters, and I am very pleased with it.
Hmm. I like it.
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: Gore-tex →
keepsdiary:
It looks like a big, smashed, dirty piece of gum, and feels like a sneaker.
What you are looking at is condensed, raw Gore-tex.
This stuff is pulled using a huge, strong machine into a thin, semi-translucent layer. You can actually pull and stretch it out by hand, but not to the point where…
Wow, that is amazing. Another thing I had never thought about.
Except when...
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“If all my mistakes
led me to you, maybe they
aren’t mistakes, at all.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
I’m always fond of this sentiment. Could it be true?
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“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for...”
– E. B. White (via theparisreview)
E.B White is one of those characters whose intellect and talent I always ardently admire but whom I almost always passionately disagree with.
Delay may be natural but I think it is born of cowardice so I wouldn’t compare it to something as invigorating as I...
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one last vigil for the mystery person behind the... →
nimishabhat:
BALTIMORE — Is the “Poe Toaster” nevermore?
For decades, a mysterious man left a three roses and cognac on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave to mark the anniversary of the writer’s birth. But after the visitor, dubbed the “Poe Toaster,” failed to appear two years in a row, Poe fans are planning one last vigil this week before calling an end to the annual Jan. 19 tradition.
Just read this...
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We Asked: 10 Trends Men Hate (And Why You Should... →
ohmymadeline:
brofisting:
this is fun to read because it’s basically some dude saying rude, women’s-choices-are-all-made-for-the-benefit-of-men things
and then a short paragraph on why he is incorrect, and also sexist
This is a delight.
Wait, this was a lot better than I thought I would be. Why is that commentary so smart, so witty and so cute still?
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“I don’t think that my fashion can change the world at all, But I know that great...”
– Robert Geller Learning from the Best : Men of Habit (via keepsdiary)
Well that means that your fashion is changing the world then doesn’t it?
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“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them— at...”
– Philip Roth (via libraryland)
I usually don’t reblog quotes unless I know where they are from but this felt so spot on to me. Sometimes I wish I thought more before I spoke, sometimes I wish I didn’t talk so much but sometimes I feel like I am nothing until I articulate it, invent it.
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“What is Downton Abbey and why is everyone I’m following on Twitter talking about...”
– My brother (via mykicks)
hahahaha, I have yet to watch Downton Abbey although I am sure I will soon be addicted to it. This is an excellent characterization though.
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“People don’t necessarily know what they want. That’s okay. Sometimes you don’t...”
– On Good Consent, Part One (via sexisnottheenemy)
Definitely! If defining yourself a certain way makes you feel better then do it for you, but be willing to let those definitions change and also evolve. You never even have to end up anywhere, it’s all about feeling the best you can.
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