December 2011
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Today at the movies
Me: Hi. I'd like two tickets to Sherlock Holmes: A Gay of Shadows?
Ticket Seller: Yeah su- Wait, what?
Me: Sherlock Homes: A Gay of Gay.
Ticket Seller: I don't-
Me: Sherlock Gay: A Gay of Gay Gay.
Ticket Seller: Sir I-
Me: Gay Gay: Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay.
Ticket Seller: That-
Me: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
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“Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
I’m drowning in debts up...”
– From Wisława Szymborska’s “Nothing’s a Gift,” translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
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“Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my...”
– Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360, at 77
(from Japanese Death Poems, edited by Yoel Hoffmann)
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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mom: you think these actors have nice hair and fashion now but in 20 years you will look back at these photos and be like-
me: look children it's your father
mom: what
me: what
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“At heart, I am still a happy four-year-old who gets up every morning hoping to...”
– Newt Gingrich (via peterfeld)
What?
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mynamekyle:
What if the only way to get into Heaven is to never have seen Avatar? You’re all fucked.
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Intellectuals and Politics →
kohenari:
Over at The Stone recently, Gary Gutting had the following suggestion for the 2012 Presidential contest:
The best evidence of how capable candidates are of fruitfully interacting with intellectuals would be to see them doing just this. Concretely, I make the follow suggestion for the coming presidential election: Gather small but diverse panels of eminent, politically uncommitted...
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Ken Burns Reveals the Greatest Christmas Present →
Several years ago, as a single dad trying to raise two daughters and struggling to figure out what the girls would want for Christmas and trying to do the best I could, we all opened up our presents Christmas morning. I just watched them in delight receive things, but then, at the end of the unwrapping, there was a kind of awkwardness, and my younger daughter Lilly looked up at my older...
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“The reason Robert Sheehan isn’t still in Misfits is because I’ve kidnapped him...”
– Iwan Rheon
Hell on Wheels Renewed for Season 2 by AMC →
#sometimes we can have nice things
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brittwidgeon:
Read More
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BATLOCK IS BACK
the-vashta-nerada:
cuteenoughtoshootyoudown:
I AM THE HERO THAT BBC DESERVES
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“I owe so much
to those I don’t love.
The relief as I agree
that someone else...”
– Wisława Szymborska, “Thank-You Note”
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gingerhaze:
Helen Mirren wants to play the Doctor
Am I just super into this?
Yes
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vimmuse:
Song from “The Hobbit” trailer.
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Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, and Jeremy Irons...
tzikeh:
Henry IV, Part I, with Jeremy Irons as Henry IV, Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal, and Michelle Dockery as Lady Percy—coming to your TV screens in 2012.
Can we just talk about this some more?
Because I mean REALLY.
Conversations at lunch
My Dad: Yeah, she's not the sharpest whale in the drawer.
My Mom: But you know what they say... a whale in the drawer is worth two in the bush.
My sister: An ounce of whale is worth a pound of cure.
Me: And a pound of whale is worth a government raid on your sushi restaurant.
“Unbeknownst to most Texans, Gov. Rick Perry officially retired in January so he...”
– Perry’s retirement, pay boost spark charges of hypocrisy - Houston Chronicle (via robot-heart-politics)
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