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100 Bits of Happiness 41/100
This actually makes me a bit tearful, because I hate that we're fighting the exact some battles my mom fought, but on the other hand, I fucking love Lesley Gore.
Did Lesley Gore say "Oh, I'm super popular, am I going to ride this train until it runs out? Nah, I'm going to college and I'll perform and record during the summer." Which isn't to say ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 39/100
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why ( Read more... ) -
Quality journalism...
"Charlize has just been confirmed to play the late Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin in a film about her life before she was tragically killed in Syria in February."
As opposed to a film about her life after death? -
100 Bits of Happiness 38/100
Quilts! I love quilts ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 37/100
If 90s Pop/Rock Lyrics Were Book Blurbs
The Catcher in the Rye
Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once? I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it.
(Green Day, “Basket Case”)
Trainspotting
So I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 36/100
I was once given a Hello Kitty store-bought Easter basket. It came with a metal trash can which my nephew loves (he's been able to recognize Hello Kitty since he was 13 months old), and very little candy.
Then again, it also came with a frightening coloring book. Here are two pictures from it which I may have *slightly* altered.
[Hello Kity vs The Bunnies]
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100 Bits of Happiness 34/100
Best author-on-author insults!
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read ( Read more... )
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