Funnies
John McCain could have won my vote just now… had he simply looked at that protester and said, “Hey, do I come down to where you don’t work and knock the bong out of your mouth?”
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This Song Makes Me Weep
And I don’t even understand the lyrics. Gonzalo Yañez, Maldigo del alto ceilo. I can’t find a direct link to just the one song but here’s his mspace page and it’s song #4. Go listen.
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Anti-Semitism Out of Lebanon
From the Onion, 2006: “Israel really turned us around on the whole Jew-hating thing,” said Hezbollah leader Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, shortly after a U.N.–brokered ceasefire was declared on Aug....
View ArticleHi I’m Cynthia I’m an Addict
“Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it’s very, “More, give me more of that stuff,” because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it’s basically, everyone...
View ArticleRead and Weep
Literally. From Miranda July’s collection of short stories, “No One Belongs Here More Than You”: Someone is getting excited. Somebody somewhere is shaking with excitement because something tremendous...
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Look What I Made!
I’ve taken up knitting. This is a power-cord scarf. First attempt so it’s a bit rugged. Making another for someone that hopefully will turn out a bit more polished. I am totally addicted to knitting,...
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More Needlecrafting
Baby Chuck Taylors: The problem with making baby booties is that the joy of completing one lasts only a few seconds, then you have to start all over and make another.
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Awake In An Alien Atmosphere
About 15 mins before the previous. Again, no photoshop whatsoever.
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Boneyard Stretch
I have been listening to “The Moth” stories on my daily commute and I can’t get this one out of my head. It’s like a female version of The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski (an incredible book by the...
View ArticleSad Can Be Good
The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a “mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete,...
View ArticleQOTD
“There are many ways for Chinese to say ‘no,’ even including ‘yes.’” –Helen Zhang, author of Think Like Chinese
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On Artists
“The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” -Oscar...
View ArticleWhy Parents Hate Parenting
“from a 2004 study by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize–winning behavioral economist, who surveyed 909 working Texas women and found that child care ranked sixteenth in pleasurability out of nineteen...
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Nine Years Ago
My job at Harvard started at 11am and it took nearly an hour on the subway so I left the house at 10. I never listen to the radio or turn on the Tv before work, I hate the noise. So I arrived at my...
View ArticlePodcast Love
Awhile back I recommended The Moth podcasts which had kept me happy on my hellish hour-long bus commute. I no longer take the bus, but podcasts are still keeping me happy during workouts. Today’s love...
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