June 2010
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May 2010
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Rejection Letter
shakingtambourine:
drunkenboat:
Dear God, Thank you for sending us The Bible. Several of us have read it and we regret to say that, due to the sheer incoherence of your narrative, your work cannot find a place among our publications for there are, alas, several problems that cannot be overlooked. You manage to captivate your audience quite splendidly for the first 5 lines, then everthing...
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Lisa Hannigan, Gavin Glass, and Rhob Cunningham covering Bon Iver. What a great way to cap off of a great weekend.
Don’t want to fall asleep because Monday mornings are never going to be as zen as lazy Sundays like today.
April 2010
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Yet another reason to be Team CoCo →
In 2003, with her prom fast approaching and a date as yet undecided, Ohio-based Nikki Simmons took a chance and sent an invite to her idol: a certain flame-haired talk show host.
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Note to self:
Next time, try doing all your research before starting to write a paper, instead of leaving that task for while you’re writing it.
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I love writing but I hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says. “You...
– Aaron Sorkin, Creator of The West Wing (via fuckyeahthewestwing)
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It’s as if he can read my mind. This paper of mine is never going to get finished.
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did-you-know fact of the day:
The British Embassy in Tehran is on a street named after an Irishman
In 1981, shortly after the death of IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, the Iranian government changed the name of the street where the British Embassy is located from “Churchill Boulevard” (after the British Prime Minister) to “Bobby Sands Street.”
British Embassy Staff were then forced to [change their...
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and with a kiss to the top of my head, he went...
Dad: Still up?
Me: Yeah, it'll be a while
Dad: We live in the same house, but I haven't seen you in days.
Me: Blame my finals. Lawschool isn't easy, you know.
//dad hovers, reading the essay I'm writing over my shoulder//
Me: Dad! I've got to finish this. You're not helping.
Dad: Sigh. I'm just missing you, that's all.
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http://gawker.com/5512623/reuters-chief-shoots-down... →
Just when you think this story couldn’t get any more sad, something like this comes along. Honestly, I think the watering down of honest reporting is even more dangerous than the brutal event being reported. Plus, if this is the disdain they’re showing for their own reporters, I wonder just how the average civilian’s story is being covered.
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“God is an iron,” I said. “Did you know that?”
I...
– Spider Robinson; God is an Iron (1977)
now let’s see if I can get the hang of this…