January 2010
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Let the walls of your gingerbread house come...
doree:
The problem, I often find, with young “cool” male teachers of either high school English or “social studies” is that they get so much mileage out of being one of the few males in the profession that they develop a bit of a God complex, which, to be fair, is an affliction that high school teachers of either gender are susceptible to. But with dudes it’s worse.*
* This has been confirmed...
Welcome wagon
salvationpretty:
Hi. I’m Val and this is my tumblr. On it I will talk about my favorite thrift store finds, because I’m totally the girl who responds to offhand compliments with an annoying gleeful, “You like it? It only cost 5 bucks!”
Okay seriously you have to follow Val’s tumblr. She gets the weirdest shit at thrift stores and on Ebay. This bear tin!!!
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Asparagus pasta
Lately I have been a vegetarian, not a real one, precisely the kind of vegetarian I hated when I was a vegetarian — the kind who eats fish, and who doesn’t particularly care whether that fish comes wrapped in a crispy blanket that may or may not be prosciutto. But I haven’t been going out of my way to order or acquire any beef, chicken, pork, lamb, etc for the past few weeks...
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Yup.
julieklausner:
I don’t know if this is a “shouty” or “whispery” post because I’m using proper capitalization in tandem with run-on sentences, but I fell asleep at 10 because I was SO TIRED, and woke up at 4 because my land line was ringing with some oddball robot-beeping on the other end when I picked up instead of the news of a loved one’s death, so I had that going for me. Now I can’t etc....
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Formspring is down, thank god.
And that seems like a good note to go out on — I will be offline, totally, for five days, in a place where I hope to eat and love some things, the specifics of which I will keep to myself. I hope you liked our journey to the heart of my inner monologue, and if you didn’t, I’m sorry I chained you to your computer and forced you at gunpoint to read it. Oh wait, I didn’t do...
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These questions are getting so good.
Considering your interest in astrology, I wonder, if you ever decided to have a child, would you consciously plan the conception in order for your baby to be a certain sign? Is that crazy? But also, which sign?
Is this Marisa? Ha. I am going to sound like a complete loon but yeah, I have thought about this. Partially because my mom is a Virgo and I’m a Libra (with Aries moon and Aries...
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Everything you've ever wanted
What are some songs that you would love to sing at karaoke, but are never ever ever in karaoke machines?
Oh my god, such a great question. F Mac, “Angel!” I would not be good at it, but I’d just really love to sing it. Dusty Springfield, “What Do You Do When Love Dies.” They never have anything from the Into the Woods soundtrack except “Children Will...
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Kitty pride
What is the cutest animal link on the internet, in your opinion?
I’m still not over Rich Fourfour’s cat Winston. I got to meet him once and it was everything I had dreamed of and more. I also have touched two out of three of Matthew Gallaway’s cats. I’m very blessed in this regard.
Ask me anything
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Reading rainbow
Hey, that Ellen Willis piece you posted was so smart (thanks for typing out the passage). Read anything else lately that’s that smart?
Nothing is as smart as Ellen Willis basically. But I am so excited about books lately. I loved Sam Lipsyte’s novel “The Ask.” It comes out soon (March 2). I also loved Adam Haslett’s novel “Union Atlantic;” it comes out...
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That's your boyfriend
In an odd reversal of internet-fame fortunes, don’t you think you may now be too good for Gessen? In all seriousness, these days you come off as a fresher & more nuanced thinker than does the n+1 brand.
I had never thought of it that way but whoa, you are so correct. Please inform me of your location so I can immediately start going out with you instead. Psyyyyyyych! Ok but...
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Pea or corn soup
I live in rural Indiana and the most exotic grocery store around is a Wal-Mart up the road in a corn field. Can you recommend an appropriately savory & perhaps exotic Indiana via Wal-Mart meal?
Hi! Thank you for not asking why Nick Denton has/had it in for me. (Questioners: um, does he not have a formspring.me page of his own? Because I’m not a mindreader.) To answer your question I...
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formspring.me
Do it up, Internet. I am procrastineedy. Preemptively: 34C, 200K, smaller/bigger than you’d think.
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A clarification
I literally meant you can continue eating the Korean things for several days. Not like “FOR DAYS” although that is a really good catchphrase. But I am trying not to let Internet things infect me. Like: ALL CAPSness, repeattttiing letterrrrrrsssss for emphasissssss, the word “bros,” “scare quotes” that “defuse” something’s...
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PSA
Did you know that you can get little plastic tubs of all the things they give you at the beginning of a Korean meal, like crunchy seasoned bean sprouts, sesame spinach and red stewed tofu, at that Korean grocery store on 32nd btwn Broadway and 5th, for like $2 each, and then eat them for days whenever you are hungry? True story.
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WatchNew Cooking the Books with Jami Attenberg. We had so much fun, AND we did not get food poisoning. The recipes we used to make cheeseburgers are here and here. Buy Jami’s book here or at your local independent bookstore.
I promise never to do this again, again.
fimoculous:
How bad do anticipate Gould’s book will be? Please be honest. How many years do you think it will take the publisher to earn back it’s advance?
I finished it! I’m still gathering my thoughts on what to say about it. I promised to sit on it for a while, but I think I can say this: The first thing that most people will notice is how much it leaves the media drama off the table....
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I got so caught up
in fanatical housecleaning — the kind where you’re rummaging through closets, tearing open year-old junkmail, taking multiple loads of paper-filled trashbags down to the curb, and wondering whether you qualify as a Hoarder for hanging onto every ID you’ve ever been issued and every CD you’ve ever owned, though none of them are actually relevant to your daily life —...
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Another Saturday night
Ruth came over for dinner after her first shift at the Park Slope Food Coop where, six months after submitting her application, she is now a member. She brought cheese, high-gravity beer, and ice cream, all bought at a deep discount, and regaled me with tales of interaction with a fellow box-unloader who lives with with like ten housemates and a kombucha culture in Ditmas Park. The more Ruth...
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When I got out of the shower just now Raffles’s mouse toy was sitting in the exact center of the bathmat. What a thoughtful cat. “I thought u might get hungry in there, here is snack.”
Now he’s carrying it around in his mouth like he always does this time of night, walking the length of the apartment yelling “Mrooof, mrooof, mroof.”
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"People who are not hungry are not obsessed with...
For the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about how youngish famous American straight white male writers think and write about sex, and why it is that we care so much about how they do these things, because of this awkardly-premised but thought-provoking Katie Roiphe essay in the NYTBR. This post may seem to be outside the declared purview of this Tumblr. But if you consider that eating...
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No, not nineteen pistachios.
The part of Us Weekly where a “celebrity nutritionist” with a new book out details an eating plan that will enable readers to “drop a dress size in one week” is a regular source, for me, of amusement/ predictable anger and sadness and concern for the magazine’s more impressionable readers. I hope no one actually follows these plans — sheer labor-intensiveness...
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I should point out though
that my commute there will be around an hour and a half each way; you are less jealous now I bet.
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Des on feminism
Des: “That’s the dark side of feminism.” Charlotte: “What?” Des: “You have a kind of free pass to make any kind of wounding or derogatory comment you want.” Charlotte: “I am hardly a militant feminist.” Des: “No, you’re not. A militant feminist would be a lot fairer. It’s women like you whose attitudes to men are so...
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