February 2009
91 posts
doesn't he know i'm hungry??
i just lost my boyfriend
he went to the kitchen to see about dinner, and he never came back.
January 2009
98 posts
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morley (via readyourownbooks)
Life's Tough All Over →
Faking Your Own Death for Dummies - There's Got... →
Sock it to me
sharingtime:
Wool socks keep your feet warm until they don’t.
If you have any suggestions on the best socks for cold weather, send em my way (itssharingtime at gmail).
wear two pairs (the wool ones on the outside). it sucks. but it works. (you may need larger shoes.)
pablo neruda, love sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. ` I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. ` I...
73 tumblrs are wrong
bellimaci:
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
— One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
this is...
emilyposts:
Pete Townsend, Let My Love Open The...
“When the day of judgment comes therefore and all secrets are laid bare, we shall...”
– Virginia Woolf on her love of reading | Books | The Guardian (via readyourownbooks)
every so often, p does his laundry without doing...
this annoys me very much primarily because:
a) i also have dirty clothes;
b) it is a well-documented fact that i do not do laundry.
“There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.”
– Heinrich Heine, quoted in People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.
“Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter.”
– Bill Cosby (via robot-heart) (via cwags) (via edatrix) (via betterthancupcakes)
our whole household is going NUTS without it (har har).
smarthistory.org →
sympathyfortheartgallery:
hydeordie:
Ok, this is officially my new favorite website.* You can search for art related posts by Time, Style, Artist, or Themes. It has a super easy layout and really interesting posts, artworks, and podcasts.
This site is being developed by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static traditional Western art...
TDD stands for telephonic device for the deaf. Basically it’s a keyboard thing with a little screen that deaf people type on to use the phone. They can call other deaf people and use it to chat. To communicate with non-deaf people over the phone there is a relay station with hearing people who act as intermediaries, speaking to the non-deaf and typing to the deaf. Cell phone texting and...
"plan ahead - it wasn't raining when noah built...
scrolling message on the giant sign at the funeral home we just passed
“So a falafel patty?”
– p, watching the restaurant wars on top chef
check out this video of my parents' inauguration... →
(go just to see their gorgeous bookshelves and the roaring fire)
Guys Wearing Argyle Socks.
betterthancupcakes:
aniceshadeofred:
From Shmitten Kitten:
The argyle sock is a a bold fashion choice with immense payoff potential. If done well, it can transform an average guy from ho-hum to hot stud… there is something about the kind of guy who wears argyle socks that makes us sit up and take notice. He probably:
has a library card
can enjoy movies with subtitles in them
has neat...
in un-inauguration-related news
i really hope the plumbers finish fixing our pipes today.
“Dear President Obama,
Here is a list of the first 10 things you should do as...”
– “This American Life” #372: The Inauguration Show. (via fishy) (via inauguration)
tammy agrees with this whole-heartedly.
rosemary bread + fresh pesto = lunch = yum!
midday math
beautifulordinaire:
Sunday Morning Coming Down,...
also,
we popped in last night to get hot chocolates, and when they came up, the barista didn’t distinguish which was the no-whip (p doesn’t like it and i can’t for the life of me think why not). anyway, he hadn’t realized one was no-whip, which the cashier pointed out to him in her marks, and so he went to spoon the whipped cream off into the sink. and naturally, i turned to p,...
THIS IS NO WHERE CLOSE TO BEING A FOGGY DAY IN...
147xxxx:
Foggy Lady: Can I have a tazo. 147xxxx: uhm- Foggy Lady: a tazo… LONDON FOG? The tall size. (She says london fog as if I should have known this. oh my god, I’m so stupid because I didn’t know that “a tazo” meant a london fog tea latte aka I couldn’t read her mind. “A tazo” could frllzz be a bigillion different things. Whatever, the...
Top 10 most widely believed myths →
#3 took me by surprise. i had no idea people actually believed the other ones. (via krystalgomez)
“These are not spirit fingers! THESE are spirit fingers. THESE are GOLD!”
– oh Sparky… (via inthesaddle)