March 2012
losertakesall:
i hope Rick Santorum is drinking something and all the ice are stuck together and while he’s drinking they all come loose at once and his drink spills all over him.
i hope Rick Santorum logs into Tumblr and is annoyed that his whole dashboard is filled with i hope Rick Santorum jokes.
happycap:
The Monkees - Daydream Believer
Rest...
“For much of our evolution, being an outsider was fatal. Small wonder loneliness...”
– Diane Ackerman, A Slender Thread
Someone donated this to the library, and I’m thumbing through it on the reference desk. It caught my eye because Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses is one of my favorite books.
February 2012
Just booked a work trip to Chicago in April. Get at me, deep dish pizza.
“It’s not like women work on the women types of storylines. We don’t just come in...”
– Megan Ganz, on the writer’s room for Community. From a great roundtable discussion with her and some other ladies from the show.
Whiskeytown ~ Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)
“Clarissa was smart. She wasn’t trying to be a “star.” Being a star for Clarissa...”
– Splitsider | Inside Clarissa Explains It All with Creator Mitchell Kriegman
I mean, you should probably just read this.
(via rachael-maddux)
“THE LIBRARY, like the book, is under assault by the new technologies, which...”
– Leon Wieseltier
“I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don’t think they know...”
– Woody Allen. You gotta love the guy’s consistency, a no show winner once again. I wonder what he actually does with his Oscars? Are they just stuck in a drawer somewhere?
“I honestly bet though that Brett Ratner really wishes that he had been...”
– Seth Rogen, hosting the Independent Sprit Awards.
larkspur asked: How was Josh Ritter last night? I am jealous beyond words. Lately I've been having this problem where I try to listen to new music and it just makes me want to hear Hello Starling again...
This place has a jar that says “Tip’s”. I’m going to assume that’s a jar of stuff belonging to a guy named Tip.
“But as a member of the oldfangled endangered species of people who make a living...”
– Sarah Vowell, on her Oscar picks.
Josh Ritter ~ The River (Springsteen cover)
Real...
Judy Blume's Oscar Picks →
“The only one that truly made me furious was “Tree of Life.” I don’t like pretension, and I found it very pretentious. [But] you know what I liked about that movie? I loved the little family drama that was inside it, the scene of Jessica Chastain jumping on the bed with the little boys when the husband was out of town. I thought, this is the movie I wish I was here seeing.”
“For whatever reason (box office, looks, lack of imagination about women),...”
– Manohla Dargis
“And as for the Thomas/Isis story: uh, what? Don’t lock dogs in sheds, the end.”
– NY Magazine recaps the Downton Abbey Christmas special.
“The thing with Leonard, he’s not singing about frivolous things. He never...”
– Ron Sexsmith, on Leonard Cohen.
hungryghoast replied to your quote: But if there’s anything I learned from my English…
yeah, but that’s a lesson from Literature, not reality. People write those stories in part, i think, to create an alternate of how things should be. In reality mean people do just fine, sometimes even better than fine. Fuckers.
You’re probably right, but I still think “Don’t fuck...
“But if there’s anything I learned from my English classes—from Charlotte Bronte...”
– Ivy Grimes, An Open Letter to the Marketing Lady in My Office Who Asked Me What My Major Was in College, and When I Said English, Responded With, “You’ll Never Get Anywhere With That.”
“Literature, for all its power, is an abstract transaction: a reader gives time...”
– Sam Anderson
Ryan Adams ~ Ghost (Demo)
This may be turning...
“Wow, I can’t believe employees are winning all the prizes.”
– My coworker, at a staff event in the staff lounge, on the results of our annual raffle to help support the United Way.
“Catholics who do not accept the phony argument over contraception are said to be...”
– Gary Wills, Contraception’s Con Men, in the NYRB.
394.2618 Valentine’s Day
300 Social sciences 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore 391-394 Customs 394 General customs 394.2 Special occasions 394.26 Holidays 394.261-394.264 Secular holidays 394.261 Holidays of December, January, February 394.2618 Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s day, courtesy of the Dewey Decimal system.
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Today was the library’s annual performance of “Someone Burns Their Popcorn in the Microwave and Sets Off the Fire Alarm So We All Have To Stand in the Cold For Thirty Minutes.” Why does this never happen in the summer?
Ryan Adams ~ Monday Night
Great song, even on a...
“In short, birth control is not a frill that can be lightly dropped to avoid...”
– Nicholas Kristof, Beyond Pelvic Politics
Evan Dando ~ How Will I Know (Whitney Houston...
Everyone is making the “guess Kobe knows who Jeremy Lin is now” joke, but damn if it isn’t true. Thirty-eight points!
When I had my annual physical last week the doctor suggested scheduling an eye exam, since I hadn’t had one in like twenty years. After lots of reading tiny letters this afternoon, the verdict is that I can still see.
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Jenny Owen Youngs ~ Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash...
“Wow, this is just like when baby Jessica was stuck in the well. We should put up...”
– Me, in response to my coworker getting trapped in the library bathroom for twenty minutes because of a broken doorknob, and needing a team of custodians to get him out.