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Surprise disappointment: The Margaret Thatcher movie. Ugh. Seriously, what was that? I'd rather have watched a crap documentary of stuck-together news reels.
Surprise non-disappointment: Britney Spears's Thing 1 dancing to "Shake Your Groove Thang." Shoving his brother out of the way! Hilarious, and too cute for words. -
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Belatedly doing this meme, since there've been some pretty good ones: Find the nearest book to you, turn to page 45, and read the first sentence: this describes your sex life in 2012.
Caddy had heard of Indigo's people. (Permanent Rose, by Hilary McKay, which is totally brilliant but difficult to use for sexual fortune telling, apparently. Hey, ( Read more... ) -
On much more cheerful subjects: Ladies and Gentlemen, Mikey Way
Mikey Way, speaking in full sentences and yet still failing so hard.
I mean, of course Gerard says his spirit animal* is a gazelle. I especially love how "we've all collectively talked about this" means Mikey & Gerard & Frank... and he has to make up Ray's.
Mikey, baby, I can tell your mama didn't let you outside much. Owls are not "articulate." ( Read more... ) -
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"I know that I shouldn't fantasize about stabbing co-workers, but..."
Things that may help me survive the zombie apocalypse at work:- The most TMI story ever about a New Year's baby "
"'We're like the two most fertile people in Canada,' mom says" - My Boxing Day splurge on Canadiana has led to a tie in lol-arious Youtube results. Part A) My Name is Mathias, by the Burning Hell (acoustic take in a shopping mall, to show off ( Read more... )
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The City Centre farmer's market has moved into the city hall for the winter, but got bumped down to t he carpark level because of a community booking upstairs. As I walked in and saw all the old men, and little kids in drab Scout-type uniforms, and heard the not-English-something-Slavic speeches, I kind of wondered what it was; as I was coming up ( Read more... ) -
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So my poor supervisor finished marking my, uh, thirty pages of essays that I handed in late. (By which I mean, later than my extension, ugh.) And I did well, and can register for my second semester of "internship" which is actually me doing a self-study project, which means I can graduate this spring!!!! I will have a degree ( Read more... ) -
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I took my literacy student to the library to make up for missing last weekend (utter family meltdown ( Read more... ) -
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The NYT magazine has a feature on how to pray, which yielded the most amazing thing I have seen today:
And a predominantly gay synagogue in San Francisco, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, has composed its own prayer to be said after anonymous sex. “In the dark, in a strange place, our father Jacob encountered a stranger with whom he grappled all night,” ( Read more... )