January 2012
29 posts
Great interview with Hanne Blank on her... →
WatchThis sounds like it’s going to be very interesting.
kattancock:
I watched the new documentary Pink Ribbons on the weekend (a media preview) and even cynical me was kind of overwhelmed by how so much of the well-intentioned effort in the movement to raise awareness of and funds for research on breast cancer is really just misdirected. It’s a good look at where the money goes, why so little...
middle of nowhere
Me: I went to see the new George Clooney movie with a friend but it sold out just before we reached the front of the line.
Mom: Really?
Me: Yeah. It was just released on Friday and it's only showing at one theatre, I think.
Mom: Oh? It's been out since forever here.
Me: I do live in Winnipeg.
Mom: Oh, right. I forgot.
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We commiserated about our respective chapter sixes, and then, for the first time in too long, I went home before him.
December 2011
15 posts
i assume this was a compliment
As I unwrapped a tube a cupcake-flavoured toothpaste, my friend said, “It looked so disgusting I had to get it for you…”
“Dear Santa Claus, How have you been? Did you have a nice summer? How is your...”
– Sally, A Charlie Brown Christmas. (via ckck)
The only question I asked myself when deciding between two thumbprint cookie recipes this evening: Which one has more butter?
Because that one is the winner.
Václav Havel is Dead →
If you pay attention, there are milestones in one’s development - intellectual, emotional, physical. Václav Havel’s play Largo Desolato was a milestone in my academic career. It clicked.
If you haven’t read it, I urge you to give it a shot. Make sure you read the stage directions. Its glory and part of Havel’s genius was in how he used space.
Comments about his character...
“Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.”
– Cormac McCarthy (via Note to Self, photo Pioneer Woman)
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
13 posts
