December 2011
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“What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and colored with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery and then - we went on dancing.” - Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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notes on the video for The Counting Crows' "Long...
- Don’t install a chalkboard wall because you saw it on Apartment Therapy if you’re just gonna end up doing that with it.
- This girl is wearing slacks. Slacks!
- This palette, ubiquitous in the late 90s, is my least favorite of all: washed out teal, pewter and black, hazy browns.
- I’d imagine that a hospital in winter smells better than a hospital in summer.
- That guy...
PONPONPON DE FLOOR.
can’t stop won’t...
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You go away for a while, you go get old somewhere else, and then when you come back everything is pretty much the same except the bathroom fixtures feel a little smaller and a little lower to the ground, some babies have been born, what was once Video Hut is now a scary “organic food” place with giant posters of Kristie Alley in the window and nothing vaguely organic-looking about it,...
advice
When your twelve year-old cousin says “On the count of three, name your favorite dinosaur,” he’s just quoting Step-Brothers, not asking your opinion, and shouting “triceratops!” will make you look like kind of an idiot.