November 2008
26 posts
download your head. this is maddeningly good.
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When listening to this song, particularly when I...
Watchkambr:
Now tell me you can’t divert your eyes from THESE gyrating thighs of awesomeness.
Instant reblog worthy!!
Justin Timberlake joins Beyonce on SNL… come on ya single ladies!
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
1967
Geek Pop Star: Malcolm Gladwell →
A long and slightly puffy profile from New York Magazine, but worth it. As for Malcolm Gladwell… he essentially writes glorified book reports, but good ones. The principle of writing everything he writes for popular consumption - articles, books, public talks - driven by the force of ideas and not celebrities or pulpy drama is something that makes me entirely hopeful. Other pluses: his hair...
In response to my sis’s post about a mix of...
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You know your thesis adviser is awesome when...
… you’re riding in the elevator in the quad library, and he starts dancing to the elevator music. Go, Professor Jewett!
Yes we did
kambr:
It happened last night. It actually came true. Our generation has never seen a politician they could actually respect, never understood the concept of a president that they could follow instead of glance at sideways with derision. And last night, it actually all came together; instead of watching the poll results with dismay and confusion, we watched them with anticipation and elation. We...
From my sis: My parents are my best material
Dad: Oh, we have to get up at 2 o' clock this morning!
Me: What?
Dad: We get an hour back.
Me: Why do you have to get up at 2 o' clock?
Dad: You're not going to get up to change the clock? Don't you want to be a good American?
Me: What? No, I'm tired!
Dad: You're a communist!
Lolol I love my fam... we are dining at Legal Seafood tonight, where we eat dinner every single time my parents visit. My dad always gets the bluefish, because it's tasty, and he can't get it in San Francisco. He usually tells everyone else around us to eat the bluefish too, because they, too, will not be able to get it in San Francisco.
a conversation with my parents
(my mother tells us that she voted against proposition 8, an amendment that would outlaw same-sex marriage in California.)
Mom: You should be able to marry who you want. This is the twenty one century!
Dad: You can marry anything you want!
Me: I'm going to marry a rock.
Mom: NO that's no good. A rock has no feelings!
The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day: a... →
Haruki Murakami has reclaimed *story* from a world of disenchanted fiction… he has something wonderful that, say, Jonathan Safran Foer just does not. My sister sent me this short story, translated by Jay Ruben. It can be found in print in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories, published last year.
from the story:
‘I’m not just saying this to make you feel...