November 2011
October 2011
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“THE rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore...”
– “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning
Am I the only one who assumes this poem ends in necrophilia?
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“Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been...”
– Albert Goldbarth, The Sciences Sing a Lullaby (via vashti)
Rasputin (1996) →
Do we all know about this fine, fine television movie? Alan Rickman plays everyone’s favorite dirty Russian conman, and Ian McKellan plays Czar Nikolai II. In short: perfection.
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Ballet and Football lover: Sylvie Guillem... →
aurelie-dupont:
You posed naked on Vogue magazine. Did you consider clothing as an option?
“I love photography - self-portraits, and portraits of friends. And when I was offered shoot for Vogue, I agreed. But I liked none of the outfits. Then I decided to do something radical - simply undressed.”
Flawless woman.
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“This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the...”
– Lionel Hutz (via eyeonspringfield)
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be it resolved that:
From now on, whenever I start to doubt myself as a scholar (which happens on the hour, pretty much), I will think of Steven Bach, and how proud I’d want to make him, even if I run out of pride in myself and my own work. There are still times - and there have been many this semester - when I want to email him to tell him about a movie I just saw, or a particularly opaque theoretical...
barackobama:
Kel on why we can’t wait for action on jobs:
Because $8/hour is not enough. I want a better paying job, but they’re hard to come by. No one wants someone who was once fired (no matter their story).
So I stick with the $8/hr job, hoping something better paying comes along.
I want to get ahead, I want to better myself, but I can’t do that where I am right now. The jobs bill must...
