June 2011
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Are you seeing someone?” she then asked, which struck me as funny, because there...
– Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen
No, I have not finished this book yet. I have, however, managed to re-read Snow Crash and start a Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet. I’m not sure why I haven’t devoured this book, as it is entertaining and ridiculously well-written.
I...
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I found out my husband likes the buttered popcorn jelly bellys. Dealbreaker?
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Today I bought some $1.50 nail polish from China that really smells like $1.50 nail polish from China.
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god julie, stop looking up Stephen Dorff interviews and Game of Thrones pictures and stop generally fucking around on tumblr and do some work already, god
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I know of no better rebuttal to the “bad words are bad writing” equation than...
– Kathryn Schulz, Ode to a Four-Letter Word (via nostrich)
I liked this article a lot.
I appreciate my mother because I can say “fuck” when I’m talking to her and it’s NBD. Shit, too late to put that in her Mother’s Day card.
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Hockey playoff commercials always get me all ferklempt.
Holy moley is Boston destroying or what?
Also, did you know that the expression, “holy moley,” originated in Captain Marvel comics? That’s what I learned from Wikipedia today.
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AGAIN with the ailments and the guilt trips
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We have now reached the portion of the evening when the Jews (my family) kvetch about their ailments.
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"Let's get this party started!" Clive Thompson... →
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She said she didn’t know what a mésalliance was, or what endogenous was, and...
– Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen
Just started reading this, and loving it so far. Perfect, perfect sentences.
Also, wow. $5.60! Pick this up.