I'm not the girl you hoped I'd be

thedailywhat: Travis Pitts: “we’ve got some work to do...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:55:42 -0700

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Travis Pitts: “we’ve got some work to do now”

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I think Hallowe’en has become my favorite.

tfsblr: (via fuckyeahhappy) I wish there were a way to tell...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:30:00 -0700

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I wish there were a way to tell everyone on Tumblr who already “reblogged” this image that it’s a print by 64 colors.

At first I was thinking Alien, but now I’m thinking Night...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:36:11 -0700

At first I was thinking Alien, but now I’m thinking Night of the Creeps.

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:43:37 -0700

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I’ve been unboxing my books and organizing them (finally), and in so doing, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I like ‘collections’ of books and how scholarly and orderly they look on a shelf. Also, I suddenly realize how prodigious a writer Louisa May Alcott was, and that I have absolutely no interest in her books. BOOOO YAAAH

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Tue, 26 May 2009 20:07:19 -0700

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I was just thinking how great it would be to start a Tumblr...

Tue, 26 May 2009 19:36:07 -0700

I was just thinking how great it would be to start a Tumblr about Food with Eyes, but then I looked, and there is already a blog dedicated to Food with Eyes.

To go with that last one.

Sun, 24 May 2009 21:41:10 -0700

To go with that last one.

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Sun, 24 May 2009 13:56:12 -0700

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Yoriko Yoshida, via.

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:20:40 -0700

Yoriko Yoshida, via.

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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:07:59 -0700

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Click for full effect

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

BANG!

It took me a second to realize he’s putting sunglasses on over his sunglasses

on parenting, aging, and 'alternate timelines'

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:47:00 -0700

jeremy: “i really like your asteroids story, because i’m the same age as your father was at that time—i’m 34 now, which makes me sad, but, you know, you deal with it. every year, you deal with it.”

me: “someday i’m going to be older than my dad, who is just, like, perpetually 35.”

jeremy: “but i can see myself, if i had gone ahead and gotten married to the girl i was dating in college, i would’ve, you know, gone on to live a, probably, more constructive life than i have now, had a good job, not write about video games and, you know, i would’ve… i would’ve maybe played some old video games out of nostalgia, but really not kept up. and this year, i would be looking at bionic commando, and i would be saying to my child, ‘do you know what this is? this is bionic commando! but look how good it looks!’”

retronauts episode 68

I have a New Century translation of the Bible — for teens!...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:27:43 -0700

I have a New Century translation of the Bible — for teens! — and in it, the 23rd Psalm begins, “The Lord is my shepherd: I have everything I need.” It’s really painful.

But this is nice.

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Check out Wednesday Addams up there. I love how this girl is...

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:24:00 -0700

Check out Wednesday Addams up there. I love how this girl is totally from a Roald Dahl book.

(I would never mock a child; rather, I’m celebrating a child’s mockery of others.)

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Using your cell phone to apartment-hunt

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:55:00 -0700

“The evolution of real estate is towards mobile, and we need to make it easier for people to search for properties while they’re on the go,” says Rob Cross of Trulia. Indeed: the last time I scoured a city for an apartment, I did it on foot. I marched up to apartment buildings that had the landlords’ office numbers taped up in the front window; I called from outside each building. Ultimately, I did find an apartment in a neighborhood I liked, but by using Craigslist.

Unfortunately, most iPhone apartment-hunting software scores dismally on the 5-star app scale. It’s a shame, too, because a lot of these new apps use the iPhone’s GPS to search for nearby vacancies.

So I tweeted my plight. “What are the best iPhone apps,” I asked the ether, “for apartment-hunting?”

Six hours later, this guy tweeted back. “build a query of your criteria on craigs and then grab the rss of it!” he suggested.

I marched my browser over to Craigslist. I started small: I searched for all Chicago apartments — any neighborhood — under $1300/mo. (It sounds steep, but $1300/mo will rent a home a million billion jillion times the size of my current San Francisco apartment, which is, ahem, priced similarly.) Anyway, that query generates this link: http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=&minAsk=min&maxAsk=1300&bedrooms=

Scrolling to the bottom of the screen, there’s an RSS icon, which links to a feed unique to just this particular query. If I grab the link location, I end up with this ugly RSS url: http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=&minAsk=min&maxAsk=1300&bedrooms=&format=rss

So I plug that URL into bit.ly, which yields a new link: http://bit.ly/2V2Srg (I know this part sounds like overkill, but it’s necessary for the next step!)

Here is the tricky secret: you will arrive at Google Reader’s mobile feedreader if you preface any (er, almost any) feed link with http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/.

In this case, when I visit http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://bit.ly/2V2Srg from my phone, I get an up-to-date, mobile-friendly RSS feed of every Chicago apartment priced under $1300. (It turns out that, for whatever reason, you can’t ‘double-bit.ly’ that final feed, so tinyurl it or whatever instead, like so: http://tinyurl.com/chhowv) And bookmark that shit!

Ultimately, I will end up with several links on my iPhone’s dashboard, with each up-to-date mobile feed representing a different Craigslist neighborhood search. Hot!

I downloaded Tweetdeck today. I like it. But its icon is SO...

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:37:00 -0700

I downloaded Tweetdeck today. I like it.
But its icon is SO UGLY. It’s black and yellow. It looks like a hazard sign.
I finally paid for Candy Bar 3 last week. I have been playing with my icons since.
Yesterday, I googled around for maybe an hour, trying to remember the name of Todd Oldham’s favorite painter-of-birds.
Charles Harper. That was the painter’s name.
Todd Oldham is from Corpus Christi, Texas. I found that out when I was reading about Corpus Christi on Wikipedia.
One search term I kept entering was “mid-century children’s book bird.” I also typed “beatnik birds,” which is how I describe the birds on my curtain.
My favorite book about birds is Birds Every Child Should Know (1907) by Neltje Blanchan.
Corpus Christi, Texas is a popular travel destination for birdwatchers and windsurfers.
I have a curtain with beatnik birds on it. It hangs in front of a window that has been WALLED IN. I think walled-in windows and fireplaces are so scary.
Tim Biskup paints a lot of beatnik birds.

In conclusion,

I literally shrieked when I saw this.

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Reblog with the story of your first kiss.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:14:00 -0700

I was in junior high, I think. And he’d just asked me to go to some dance. He was new to the school district, so he didn’t know I was a dork. He was sort of gross, but he was pale and he had strawberry-blonde hair, which I liked. Right before the dance, he told everyone I’d given him a blow job.

Oh, also, there’s my longtime friend Mark. In the third grade, I pinned him down during recess as all the girls chanted, “Lips! Lips! Lips! Lips!” He wriggled and writhed. I kissed him on the cheek instead of the lips, then let him go. He ran away screaming.

I think this story is totally cute… for being about physical or sexual assault, anyway.

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slutty girl freshman year.

IT WAS MAGICAL

long haired green eyed italian guy my freshman year in college….he tried to steal my soul, thankfully i was able to save myself.

I was drunk and barely remember it. woohoo

It was with my first boyfriend Fred. It was actually really nice! Not awkward.

I lied about going off to work on a novel. Instead, I found a...

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:06:41 -0700

I lied about going off to work on a novel. Instead, I found a photo of where I would like to live; here is ggmossgirl’s (Gretchen’s?) doll room. And here, too, is her desk.

I wonder if maybe this should be my last-ever Tumblr entry...

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:48:00 -0700

I wonder if maybe this should be my last-ever Tumblr entry — it would be nice to start and finish with photographs of cluttered kitchens.

I started this Tumblr because I was scared I was dying, and I regretted not having more of a legacy. Nice work, self!

I should go get to work on that novel.

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Another reblog. I’m tired. thedailywhat: Reimagination of...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:35:16 -0700

Another reblog. I’m tired.

thedailywhat:

Reimagination of the Day: John Pound, best known for his contributions to Topps’ Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages trading cards, was commissioned to draw this GPK-style He-Man vs. Skeletor portrait.

Click here to read a tl;dr interview with Pound, in which he discusses his relationship with Topps and the sources of inspiration for his more popular GPK characters.

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:00 -0700

Reblog chain

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Jinkies…

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