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Jelly people
I am not a good dancer. Someone actually told me, "You must have learned how to dance from Kim Jong Il."
With that in mind, I salute this man:
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Life is beautiful, and fragile, and as a stab to the heart
In a perfect world
I would float through life as a delicate soap bubble, shiny and reflective
fading silently towards the end
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Initialisms
I never liked the initialisms people use on the Internet, over chat, and in real life ("IRL").
[Some of you may say, "IKR!!!!?!?!"]
Pretty soon we'll be seeing
EMDW = Elementary, my dear Watson.
FMDIDGAD = Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Unwinding
We all start off with a whole big bunch of gnarly brightly-colored yarn; something like this:
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Political quizzes and a "Personality" test
Since the US presidential race has been oversaturating the news lately, I decided to take the following quiz:
Your Vote Score: 38% Republican, 62% Democrat
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Overheard, in a garden.
This little gem is brought to you courtesy of my brother (deer_dance), who overheard it in one of those smoking pocket garden places - whatever they're called - near a pond.
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[It is raining. A frog leaps out of the pond and across the field.]
Maarte Freshman: Ewwwwwwww! A fralaka!
[pause]
Maarte Freshman: Oh. My. God. I JUST MIXED FROG AND -
Movie meme, from Jill
Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...
Mike Nichols
Your film will be 54% romantic, 56% comedy, 38% complex plot, and a $ 41 million budget.
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Creative inertia
I've been working at/with/for the bank for a little more than a year, and now I kind of understand why people like to blame the corporate world for the death of personal creativity. I don't think it's fair to say that the corporate world is directly responsible, but as a corpie drone, one has very little time and very little inspiration to write or ( Read more... )
