April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Make Me Feel Human: "At 92, a bandit to Hollywood... →
“Mr. Strachman nodded guiltily but pointed to his walls, which are strewed with seven huge American flags, dozens of appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their beloved DVDs. […] ‘Our downtime is spent watching movies as we clean our weapons,’ one handwritten note said.” - Alan Schwarz
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Worth A Read: "We are the porn generation" →
“Don’t get the wrong idea; it would be completely hypocritical of me to say that this movement is entirely bad. I love TED talks; they have the noble intention of spreading revolutionary ideas to a wide audience. I’m also a TV junkie, and I don’t read as much as I should. It’s the scary, negative consequences that worry me: Facebook as friendship porn, the commercialization of the music...
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Worth A Read: "When my brother got cancer" →
“All the memories I had of him came flooding back with sudden clarity and it was both sad and amusing because we’re 15 years apart and there simply aren’t that many. One where he adopted a German shepherd from the pound and gave him to me for Christmas when I was 6. One where he took me to his favorite coffeehouse in DC, I was 15 and he made fun of my eyeliner. And one where he grinned...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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Worth a read: "Take me to the river" →
I tried so hard to find a quotation that would neatly capture this article’s essence, but I couldn’t. Everyone who has a relationship with the Internet and is curious to delve into what that means exactly should read this.
Apr 19th
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Worth A Read: Christian group shows up to Chicago... →
“As he was dancing on the float, he noticed us and jokingly yelled, ‘What are you sorry for? It’s Pride!’ I pointed to our signs and watched him read them. […] Then he got it. He stopped dancing. He looked at all of us standing there. A look of utter seriousness came across his face. And as the float passed us he jumped off of it and ran towards us. In all his sweaty...
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Worth A Read: "The forty-year itch" →
“And so, if we can hang on, it will be in the twenty-fifties that the manners and meanings of the Obama era will be truly revealed: only then will we know our own essence. A small, attentive child, in a stroller on some Brooklyn playground or Minneapolis street, is already recording the stray images and sounds of this era: Michelle’s upper arms, the baritone crooning sound of NPR, people...
Apr 19th
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Thank You, Internet: “Sailor Beast Transformation Sequence” - johnman
Apr 19th
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Worth A Read: A father comes out to his... →
“She turned instantly wary. Any time a conversation begins to sound remotely sincere, her guard goes up. It’s probably textbook for children of divorce. (What’s going on? What’s happening? Is my life about to change again? Aaagh!) I told her it was nothing bad, it wasn’t anything that was going to change her life or her living situation again. In fact, it wasn’t...
Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Worth A Read: "Don't tell me to try harder" →
“I believe that there are many students whose time [at UofT] has been entirely depression-free, but I can’t say that I know too many of them personally. If that’s you, then I’m happy for you. But it doesn’t give you the right to project your privilege onto the rest of the school, and to take people to task for failing to be as happy as you are.” - Pauline Holdsworth
Apr 16th
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Swag: How sandysmind eats his “favorite topping of pizza.”
Apr 15th
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New Favourite Thing: I Hope Barack Obama →
“I hope when Barack Obama wears Apple Bottom jeans and boots with the fur, the whole club looks at him.”
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Worth A Read: "It's okay to be neither" →
” ‘My cousin wears nail polish, too!’ said another student. Soon many students were eager to share examples of how people pushed the limits on gender. Our school engineer, Ms. Joan, drove a motorcycle. Jeremy liked to dance. I could see the gears turning in their brains as the gender lines started to blur.” - Melissa Bollow Tempel
Apr 14th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Worth A Read: "How I ended up having sex with men... →
“There was no pretense, no awkward conversation or dancing around whether or not I should be attracted to somebody. There was no wondering if someone was straight or gay; there was no sexual orientation at all. We were just there, together, as ourselves.” - Conner Habib
Apr 7th
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Worth Every Second: Booty Battle →
Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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New Favourite Thing: Texts from Hillary Clinton →
Apr 7th
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New Favourite Thing: The Tumblr of Beyonce. →
Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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blue jays are back
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