October 2011
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April 2011
2 posts
“The rain that falls upon the just and upon the unjust cannot be condemned for...”
– H.B. Acton, Philosophy in social work - Google 圖書
March 2011
3 posts
“It is not clear what the causes of the blasts were, though state TV said the...”
– BBC News - Libya: Nato assumes control of military operation
February 2011
9 posts
In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any... →
The existence of This Recording and Molly Lambert is just kind of great for the world.
“Season one marks the beginning of infatuation, the point where you realize that...”
– “Early 21st Century Romanticism” | Community | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club
“But while music can capture the emotions of a shattered relationship, it rarely...”
– How to break up | Film | I Learned It At The Movies | The A.V. Club
“When we think about commercials that offend us, we think of those that glorify...”
– Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, in an official statement concerning the controversy surrounding his company’s ostensibly insensitive Super Bowl ad. He goes on to say that the ad was meant as a knock at “the often trivial nature of stuff on Groupon when juxtaposed against bigger world issues.”
As the man...
“Yes, women are in this world for one thing: babies. And what is the point of...”
– The Sexual Cost of Female Success | The Hairpin
“Just as Nicholson brings a Whitman’s Sampler of daddy-flavored chocolates in...”
– F/M/K: Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty | The Hairpin
“Be careful: the temptation to write short stories two at a time is just as...”
– Bolano, In Which A Good Writer Has No Faults Only Sins - Home - This Recording
January 2011
19 posts
“Although Kathy, like many of Ishiguro’s characters, seems to lack a desire for...”
– In Which Kazuo Ishiguro Fulfills Our Deepest Fantasies - Home - This Recording
Never Let Me Go tore through me and now I desperately need the book.
It is so much harder to break a habit than to...
THE GREEN HORNET WAS SO DISAPPOINTING
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WatchBUFFALO ‘66: Movie Trailer - Video (via Metacafe)
BBC News - Turmoil in Tunisia: As it happened on... →
a.k.a. BBC liveblogs the collapse of the Tunisian government
“There is a term for people who use the application that allows you to appear...”
– On GChat « Thought Catalog
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Afterschool (2008) →
Physically hurt me.
“A bigger leap came in an experiment about numbers, in which the parrot was shown...”
– Deric Bownds’ MindBlog: Did Alex really “want” a cracker?
What impresses me most about most animal shows is when the trainer points to one in a group and instructs it to do something, that ability to understand itself as an individual as well as a member of a larger group.
It appears that Disney has evolved from passive...
Zachary Levi is thoroughly charming, even when...
Parents Television Council - Examples of Female... →
So so so counter-productive. Also, just waiting to go viral.
It has just occurred to me that HP7 Part 2 is...
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Best podcasts from most must to least must, linked...
Slate Political Gabfest: Emily Bazelon is my hero.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: So so so enjoyable, I found out about this five hours ago and have been going through all of the episodes from the beginning.
This American Life: Duh.
Slate Culture Gabfest
The Nerdist: I kind of want to marry Chris Hardwick.
KCRW’s Bookworm: Wonderful interviews with interesting authors.
Philosophy Bites
The...
December 2010
22 posts
Grover: Ok, the way I see it, if we were an old couple, dated for years, graduated, away from all these scholastic complications, and I reached over and kissed you, you wouldn’t say a word, I mean, you’d be delighted, probably, but if I was to do that now. it’d be quite forward, and if I did it the first time we ever met, you probably would’ve hit me.
Jane: What do you...
The only anger I seem to feel anymore is as a...
One of the very worst things about being alive is...
I love the smoky smell that everyone takes on when...
14 Actors Acting - Javier Bardem →
Two amazing documentaries about animation
Waking Sleeping Beauty - http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6003268/Waking.Sleeping.Beauty.2009.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT
Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ca7iNqDTxs
I have nothing Internet-related to share so here...
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman: An elevated version of everything I’ve ever spent any time talking to people about.
The League: This is exactly what I was hoping for when I started watching Peep Show ie. an explanation of how men work that doesn’t make me lose hope in mankind. Also, the most surprisingly amusing show ever.
Fringe: This whole “what is...
“The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty leaves and stalks like...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might...”
– Murakami, Fiction - Reality A and Reality B - NYTimes.com
