May 2012
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If you can’t tell whether you are an overly-strict person with inappropriate...
– The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game (via Rachel)
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Overheard in D.C.
Sometimes kids are geniuses
On Saturday at Trinity University soccer field:
A man and his roughly four-year-old son are presumably waiting for mom to finish her game.
Dad: “What do you want for breakfast?” Son (confidently): “A cup of coffee. And a taco.”
- Me too, kid.
Via dcist.
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Fog
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
-Carl Sandburg
Still a favorite of mine.
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If you don’t have flights of ideas, why bother to think at all? I don’t see how people without loose associations and flights of ideas get much done.
The reason creativity and craziness go together is that if you’re just plain crazy without being able to sing or dance or write good poems, no one is going to want to have babies with you. Your genes will fall by the wayside. Who...
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Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler to Star in David Wain's... →
“Wet Hot American Summer” stars Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler are coming together to reteam with director David Wain on “They Came Together,” a romantic comedy parody that will be produced through Lionsgate’s microbudget division. Wain and his longtime collaborator Michael Showalter wrote the script shortly after “Wet Hot American Summer,” though the project never got made. Lionsgate is now gearing up...
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents...
– Douglas Kennedy, Pursuit of Happiness (via creatingaquietmind)
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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we...
– How humans became the storytelling animal. (via explore-blog)
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April 2012
24 posts
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Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your...
– The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek — and I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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The most conspicuous, hiding-in-plain-sight negative space in New York is...
– Thomas Beller on the antidote to what we all know New York is all about otherwise. (via explore-blog)