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God, it's been a lovely day, everything's been going my way...
...ever since you went away, hey I'm on fire...*
Saturday night, I and 1,200 of my closest friends sang "Happy Birthday" to officialgaiman, led by the phenomenal Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra. Pretty amazing night.
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Seriously??!!!???
To the three women (thus far) from my FB friends' list who "liked" Romney ( Read more... ) -
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” *
Does anybody else feel that they're waking up in to a dream, a nightmare, these days? Does anybody else feel like they're waking up into "The Handmaid's Tale" rather than into the 21st century?
Just a sampling of what's making me question my location in time and space:
In that case...your god is a cruel, sadistic, mysoginistic shit-heel that ( Read more... ) -
A Life Less Ordinary
I had a rude awakening the other day: I have not saved enough money for my retirement. I'm not even close. Furthermore, should something happen and I was unable to work/find work, I would not be able to live off the non-retirement savings that I do have for more than a year. This scared me. Actually, it terrifies me. Because my parents are both ( Read more... ) -
Dumas at Dolce & Gabbana? Poe at Prada? Wilde at Westwood?
This is witty and funny:
Dead Authors at Fashion Week
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/09/12/dead-authors-at-fashion-week-part-i/There is a condition worse than blindness,...
...and that is, seeing something that isn't there. - Thomas Hardy ( Read more... )OMG! I WANT TO RIP YOUR FINGERS OFF SO YOU CAN'T TYPE ANYMORE!!
Whoever this "writer" is she should be FIRED!! And shot! And forbiden to write ever again!! First of all, the writing is terrible; the story is annoying, cloying, and sycophantic. But the fact that this person is being paid for this and she's nearly illiterate in English sent me into a near apoplectic fit! This is unbelievable. She uses the ( Read more... )People in glass houses
Wow. You know, this is not funny. It's just disgusting ( Read more... )There's an app for that...
Ooops, there's a WORD for that!
tsundoku (n.) japanese word for buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up on shelves
So guilty of this it's ridiculous! But it's so comforting to have them all lined up, waiting for me! Like literary wall-flowers at a school dance and, unlike at my real-life school dances, I get to choose the next