January 2010
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Karate - The New Hangout Condition
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“I love it. I love it. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. The...”
– RuPaul on plastic surgery in W.
My love for RuPaul grows daily. And let’s not forget this video dj twinkbear just sent me, in which she talks about how she loves riding bikes.
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on riding my bike to work this morning
how it is:
how I want it to be:
(via sister reba)
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q & a
I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired lately. I think this is partly (almost entirely) due to the fact that school is back in session and both classes I have this semester are GIS, so that means there’s not a lot of in depth conversation going on (which is a big part of why I like school so much). For the most part I’m learning computer software that is incredibly unintuitive and...
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The Weakerthans - Everything Must Go
Canadians,...
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I made and added a header. Which would be no big whoop for most of you, but I’m a moron when it comes to computers, so this is a big deal for me. You should check it out.
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ask →
In the event that you have a question for me.
(I feel like it’s smoking all over again. Peer pressure. All the cool kids are doing it. E.g.)
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This fellow’s Joyce posts are taunting me. They’re saying, ‘how can you have a degree in literature when you’ve never read Ulysses, not even the first page?’ My Joyce deficiency has become all too clear in the past week. It has come up in conversation a few too many times, and on Friday I just happened to run into a gentleman I knew in Philadelphia (who now lives in Chicago also)...
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The Apples in Stereo - Tidal Wave
Because...
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Patti Smith Remembers Life with Mapplethorpe...
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walk score →
Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address based on the distance from your house to nearby amenities. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking.
This is going to come in handy when I’m moving in a few months. Not only does it give an address a score, it lists all of the amenities nearby - transit, grocery stores,...
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Pillow Talk
I really want to curl up under the covers with some hot cocoa and watch Pillow Talk, but I have a full day of work tomorrow and my first class of the semester in the evening so I’m going to go to bed right now. Being responsible is so cool.
(Though, I suppose my irresponsible option - watching a movie from the 1950s in my pjs - isn’t generally considered all that cool either.)
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bottomless mimosas & bloody marys for seven... →
tomatoallergy:
Apparently this place is new. Wicker Park. The menu looks okay, too. I’m so there.
Um…Sunday Breakfast Club anyone?
"Come over and do nothing!"
-Text received from Carmen at 1:23pm.
I promptly caught the bus to her place and proceeded to ‘do nothing’ all day. I would’ve taken pictures, but then I would’ve been doing something. The most effort any of us put forth was making manmosas and ordering pizza.
Great Sunday.
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American Dialect Society's Word of the Year 2009... →
How Dracula sneeze did not win is beyond me.
(Dracula sneeze defined: covering one’s mouth with the crook of one’s elbow when sneezing, seen as similar to popular portrayals of the vampire Dracula, in which he hides the lower half of his face with a cape.)
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reasons albany park is a great place to live, part...
It’s impossible to figure out where to go for the best falafel, spinach pie, fresh pita, etc because there are so many places that are excellent. I just stopped into Sanabel on Kedzie and Collum for the first time and got a spinach and cheese pie because I was crazy hungry from thrift store shopping and, girl, they are freakin’ delicious.
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Smoosh - Rad
I am unapologetic about my love...
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Mary J Blige - Real Love
Getting my Thursday...
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in...”
– Oscar Wilde
While I don’t necessarily agree - there are a few books that I enjoyed reading, but would never want to struggle through again - my favorite books, I feel I could read endlessly and never tire of them.
Some books I can’t get enough of: A Death in the Family James Agee (you...
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“This Will Be Our Year,” The Zombies
(via...
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resolve
Every time modern technology presents us with a new possibility, we quickly learn to see it as a necessity, and it becomes a default. The process is becoming shorter and shorter. Consumption has become something that we see as only right and proper. … The problem is that when new technology becomes a default in our lives, it can no longer bring us happiness or a sense of fulfillment. On...
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Weather dot com is saying that it will be fourteen...
Will someone please help me get excited about my eight mile bike ride to work? Pretty please? Because this year I just can’t seem to get pumped about extreme cold riding.
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