April 2008
1 post
“critics can be pretentious, but that is the nature of the task.”
– T. Emerson
March 2008
17 posts
“it doesn’t have to look natural, it just has to look fabulous”
– Brad Johns
Big Hair →
“It’s Not You, It’s Your Books”
– Essay About Love and Literary Taste - New York Times
Tracey Re:Fragmented Contest Entries →
“everything is offensive to someone.”
– SarahBoBara
marco: I met MC Hammer tonight at a fancy party. I...
“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when...”
– James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a friend of Mr. Clinton. NYT
When Girls Will Be Boys →
“She’s really conservative. I’m very disappointed in that. She wears...”
– Formerly Punk & Currently Quirky Vivienne Westwood: “Why Don’t People Tear Their Own Clothes?”
has the time come to seriously compare "The OC"... →
“I’m not advocating it. I’m merely saying, so what? It’s like...”
– Cindy Adams on Spitzer
Ghost World
Enid: Josh.
Rebecca: Josh.
Enid, Rebecca: Josh!
Enid: God, I'll bet he's in there jerking off.
Rebecca: I'll bet he never jerks off.
Enid: Yeah, he's beyond human, and stuff like that.
Rebecca: Should we leave him a note?
Enid: Sure. You got a pen?
[Rebecca pulls out a pen, Enid takes it]
Enid: [writing] Dear Josh, we came by to fuck you, but you were not home. Therefore... you are gay. Signed Tiffany, and Amber.
What Would Alex Keaton Do? →
What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? →
February 2008
24 posts
“I mean, Annie Lennox used to be able to dress like a man and sell albums, I...”
– Ellen Page
3 tags
A Tyrannical Romance - The Wild Side - Olivia... →
Book Lust →
“You mean give up twittering, don’t you?” I asked. “You don’t need to tell us...”
– If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter - New York Times (via ostra)
'Til death did we party: the music business in the... →
Top 20 Geek Movies Of All Time →
The Vanishing Point →
manorexia ain’t pretty.
THE SEX DIARIES OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES →
“Contact with the disgusting makes one disgusting. To study disgust is to risk...”
– quoted by William Miller in The Anatomy of Disgust
Imposter Syndrome - Feeling Like a Fraud →
January 2008
53 posts
“‘He was your ideal son-in-law,’ said 62-year-old Martine Le Pohon,...”
– French rally behind rogue trader as fraud scandal spreads. The Observer
“That cute polar bear in Germany raised by scientists has turned into a...”
– read at David Hauslaib’s Jossip
“the breaking of the tradition is harder than the splitting of the atom”
– Einstein
