November 2010
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Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton My rating: 4 of 5 stars If J.R.R. Tolkien had been hit by a truck in 1949; if Daniel Radcliffe had a cocaine addiction; if Padma Lakshmi were intelligent enough to be eccentric; if Oprah allowed herself to be bullied by lesbians … if all of these things were true in our world, then our world would be this much closer to Mr. Toppit’s world. View all my...
Nov 30th
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“Although it doesn’t come out in print until Sunday, The New York Times has...”
– Flavorwire » 10 Great, New Books That Didn’t Make the Times’ Best of 2010 List I can’t wait to read this list so that I can be angry about it.
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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“Mitchell’s experience has taught her that feeding coyotes amounts to killing...”
– Group tracks coyotes in Jamestown and on Aquidneck Island seeking information on their behavior | Environment | projo.com | The Providence Journal This was an actual front page headline I saw while in Rhode Island, “Scientist Says Do Not Feed Coyotes”
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert - Goodmorning & Goodnight (via brooklynmutt) Okay, I’ll  probably never forgive Elizabeth Gilbert for Eat, Pray, Love, but this quote is very evocative.
Nov 26th
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“It took me a little while, I confess, but you can’t dislike Bill Clinton. He’s...”
– Barbara Bush, of all people. (via mediaite) Duh.
Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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“The girls researchers identified as having low self-esteem were also more likely...”
– Teen Girls Play Down Intelligence and Kindness Online | Social Media & Internet Safety | LiveScience
Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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Dear Coke Talk: On fun sized advice. →
dearcoketalk: Sometimes I think if I werent such an independent woman, maybe Id have a boyfriend once in a while… Sometimes I wish I could spray my inbox with weed killer designed specifically for shitty voiceover from “Sex and the City.” The only Tumblr advice blog you’ll ever need.
Nov 25th
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St. Louis Named America’s Most Dangerous City, New... →
Every New Yorker’s parents doesn’t buy this for a second; blames liberal media “spin” or something.
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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10 Online Lit Mags You Should Be Reading →
fwriction: Thanks to Flavorwire for this. I adore online literary journals, and I think you should, too. This is a great list (be sure to check “hungry for more” at the end, which notes fwriction favorites: The Collagist, Annalemma, and failbetter).  If I owned an iPad, would I read online Lit Mags?  We may never know.
Nov 22nd
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Reconceived.: 16w4d - We lost our first baby a... →
reconceived: 16w4d - We lost our first baby a year ago today. So much feels familiar: The air smells the same as it did then, dry and sharp and too chilled for chapped noses and sore eyes. The lake has the perpetual late-fall tremor it always does around now, threatening to freeze still-bright leaves in the… Thinking of my best friend today.
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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lucky paper stars: Coming Soon from Parker... →
luckypaperstars: I invented a game called “Where is My Work?” that I like to play all day long. It consists of me trying to click through the multitude of browser tabs and other browsers and manuscripts and Outlook emails and half-composed outgoing Outlook emails and Excel spreadsheets and MS Paint windows that I… Substitute “Diet Dr. Pepper” for “Diet Coke” and...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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“Voters in Rhode Island rejected a proposition last week to change the state’s...”
– Seth Meyer, SNL Weekend Update: 11/13/10 (via urbanjuror)
Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
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Save Newsweek.com: A Defense of Newsweek.com →
markcoatney: savenewsweekdotcom: It’s always nice to wake up and find out in the Times that your job is doomed. As they put it on Saturday morning, quoting the new CEO of the so-called Newsweek Daily Beast Company, Stephen Colvin: “Newsweek.com will cease to exist after the merger, and anyone who types the URL into their… Paging management at the new Newsweek/Daily Beast: In which your...
Nov 19th
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Black Is A Stallion: The Butler Family Christmas... →
michaelianblack: Dear family and friends and pets, Once again, my master David is too busy to sit down and write a holiday letter so he asked me, his best friend, to do it for him. Once again, I said yes, even though my paws are still aching from typing last year’s letter! I sure wish they taught touch typing…
Nov 19th
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WatchWatch
scifilullabies: Sufjan Stevens at Beacon Theater in New York City. 11.15.2010 (you get the idea.) Boy, howdy, does this look like a good time!
Nov 19th
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“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve...”
– Nick Hornby (via wordpainting) Listen to Nick Hornby.
Nov 17th
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Smart People Stay Up Late and Sleep Late  →
soupsoup: I feel vindicated. Further evidence that no office job should start before 10:00am. 
Nov 15th
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Nov 15th
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“Yesterday, it was reported that eighty-four-year-old actor Dick Van Dyke had...”
– Susan Orlean, The New Yorker (via christmasgorilla) This reminds me that “Guided by Portishead” would be a great mash-up. 
Nov 14th
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female engineers
soupsoup: clayman: via Ratio changing starts early. Duh.
Nov 14th
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