May 2012
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It’s going to be a late drawing tonight because I accidentally started something more complicated than I thought it would be and, full disclosure, I’m also watching a tv show in the background and yelling at the cat every tenminutes to quit dipping her paws in my water.
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Professional farmer's market advice.
Go to your local farmer’s market about five minutes before they pack up and close. Most of them want to get rid of the stuff they didn’t sell so as to not haul off a huge load at the end of their day. There are numerous and ridiculous deals to be had five minutes before the farmers market closes. I have three loaves of bread in the freezer right now and another three loaves just kind...
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Cat butt, while standing: (*)
Cat butt, about to poop: (.)
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asteakandmilkshake:
Tumblr got vangelized today
I think you mean Vangelised.
Sometimes my brush strokes have more to do with getting cat hair off the paper than they do any artistic sensibility.
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Academic Snobbery
emilyebba:
I am editing the text for an exhibition catalog that is curated by a professor. In the beginning of his forward he says he wants this to be a catalog written by an art historian, but understandable beyond the reaches of art history.
We were going over the edits I recommended, and I had added a reference before the names of certain art historians, theorists, architects, because I’ve...
I hate the youth of America
michaelrobbinspoet:
Many of those who follow my tumblr are young, apparently self-absorbed people who spend their time posting pictures of cute animals & fashion models & reblogging nauseating self-help platitudes about how special & creative & unique they are. The irony would be funny if it weren’t so obvious.
You’re not special or creative or unique, kids. A few of you, maybe,...
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You know what the best way to say thank you is? A homemade potpie.
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“…and I decided that I’d do my best in the future not to write books...”
– Neil Gaiman
Aspirational nostalgia
barthel:
Turning round and round an idea about Instagram/minimalist design/et al as “virtual Ikea” - replicating in an affordable form the style of a decade the rising generation grew up seeing as cool but unavailable because it was so recent. Not just nostalgia, in other words, but aspirational nostalgia: desiring the things our imagined best selves would have wanted if they were alive 40...
“A Glasgow smile (also known as a Glasgow grin or Chelsea grin or Cheshire grin)...”
– And so begins my long night of researching football hooligan gangs.
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How do you reply to email?
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An adaptation of the board game Monopoly is also... →
This is a really unsettling way to end a blurb about a Blade Runner sequel.
Things I have just now decided I have no taste for:
Long-form blog posts that have lots of hyperlinks attached to innocuous words like so much footnote. Don’t be the Solzhenitsyn of links. If it’s so important, work it into your post with your own words. Parenthetical asides and real footnotes are still valid ways of communicating and are less brusque, less “you read this,...
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"Girls" is from Mars, Women are from Venus
tesslynch:
I like that Girls exists. I like its style, I like Jemima Kirke in general, I like women who make things that aren’t cute, I like seeing regular-looking naked people, and I like anything that reminds me of “Scotty Doesn’t Know.” I also don’t enjoy watching Girls, even though in theory it’s right up my alley, because I feel like I am from a planet that’s very distant from the one that...
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