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lowbrowbrilliant:
You guys. Gaga’s holiday single is amaaazing.
“The only place you’ll wanna be is underneath my Christmas Tree!”
and also
“My Christmas Tree’s delicious.”
Hilarious, and exactly what Jesus had in mind when he invented Christmas.
"In Slate, Dana Stevens dubs the movie “a classic juicebomb” — meaning a film she can’t intellectually defend but unapologetically loves — writing: The feminist in me wishes that Bella spent more time actually working on those motorcycles rather than hanging over Jacob’s shoulder as he wields his manly, er, wrench. The feminist in me wishes a lot of things. But say what you will about the “Twilight” films; they take female desire as seriously as a grad student from the early ’90s. … Haters may construe Bella as a passive victim eager to be served up as vampire meat, but she’s the subject of this love story, not its object; she’s the lover while Edward and Jacob are her diametrically opposed beloveds, one hot-blooded (Jacob runs a constant body temperature of 108 degrees), the other pale and cold as stone."
"More than that, every song on White Blood Cells just feels true, which is about the best thing a record can be. (Josh Modell)"
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gotagirlcrush:
Got a girl crush on: Joan Didion
[Guest Post by Erin!]
Joan Didion did some superficially cool things like hang out with the Doors and drink in the afternoons, but that’s not why she’s crush-worthy. Didion’s nonfiction, particularly personal essays from her 20s like those in White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem, came to symbolize what only an observer, not a participant, could glean from Southern California in the 60s. Her writing was unemotional and impassionate (she was, first and foremost, a journalist), yet it conveyed a subtly cunning point of view that a reader automatically agrees with, understands and applies to herself. Didion has the inimitable ability to make you reframe everything you thought you understood about yourself. One of her most well-known passages:
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”](http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktd5b3Nm8V1qzjiplo1_250.jpg)
lowbrowbrilliant:
gotagirlcrush:
Got a girl crush on: Joan Didion
[Guest Post by Erin!]
Joan Didion did some superficially cool things like hang out with the Doors and drink in the afternoons, but that’s not why she’s crush-worthy. Didion’s nonfiction, particularly personal essays from her 20s like those in White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem, came to symbolize what only an observer, not a participant, could glean from Southern California in the 60s. Her writing was unemotional and impassionate (she was, first and foremost, a journalist), yet it conveyed a subtly cunning point of view that a reader automatically agrees with, understands and applies to herself. Didion has the inimitable ability to make you reframe everything you thought you understood about yourself. One of her most well-known passages:
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
ANDY AND DUCK, best friends for life y’all
"Ok, i have some friends who like to party alot, dont get me wrong i love a good party, but my mates like to party like 3-4 nights a week, they drink alot, smoke alot, even do cocaine alot, and get like 5 hours asleep a night, which i dont do, but my question is this, they dont seem to look any worse for it!! they look just as healthy as me, and i only party like once a week, im 28 and my friends are the same age bracket, so how come they dont look any worse for it, i go to the gym 3 times a week, and look after my self, i should be looking more healthier lol.
Will it catch up with them?
If not, thats just unfair. lol"
"Yet Mr. McCain’s astonishing decision to pick someone with so little experience (less than two years as the governor of Alaska, and before that, two terms as mayor of Wasilla, an Alaskan town with fewer than 7,000 residents) as his running mate underscores just how alarmingly expertise is discounted — or equated with elitism — in our increasingly democratized era, and just how thoroughly colorful personal narratives overshadow policy arguments and actual knowledge. Ms. Palin herself had a surprisingly nonchalant reaction to Mr. McCain’s initial phone call about the vice president’s slot, writing that she was not astonished, that it felt “like a natural progression."
