January 2012
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December 2011
18 posts
Olivia!
You should go on Skype since you seem to be on tumblr just like me, at this late hour.
And cause I miss you.
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“Blindsided”-Bon Iver.
Even though I...
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"The Simple Truth", Phillip Levine
I bought a dollar and a half’s worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets and ate them for dinner with a little butter and salt. Then I walked through the dried fields on the edge of town. In middle June the light hung on in the dark furrows at my feet, and in the mountain oaks overhead the birds were gathering for the night, the jays and mockers squawking...
“What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things...”
– Dave Eggers (via brighteryellow)
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Doing Economics Homework
“Country A produces three things: popcorn, paperback novels and running shoes.”
This sounds like my kind of country.
November 2011
8 posts
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
shit this is scary.
I Should Be Studying For History.
Instead I am reading about Zelda Fitzgerald.
maggitarwv:
“Last year, we created enough food to feed 11 billion people. And yet, of the 7 billion people we have, a billion of them struggle with hunger. So what is up with that? Well, about half of that food was fed to cows, chickens, and pigs. So…that’s a problem.”
-Hank Green (“7,000,000,000 People”)
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One Celled-Organism Apartment Houses! →
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October 2011
14 posts
“We are the storytelling animal.”
– Salman Rushdie (via maggitarwv)
Liz: You have no summer plans?
Toofer: Well, David Eggers and I are designing a new font.
“And here we aren’t, so quickly: I’m not twenty-six and you’re not sixty. I’m not...”
– -Jonathan Safran Foer
I’m on a bit of a glut…
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30 tags
July 2011
1 post
So I Thought The Scholarship Where You Paint a...
But, after recent perusing, I’ve definitely been proven wrong. Here are a few gems:
DePauw University The Icy Frost Bridge Scholarship at DePauw University is restricted to female music students who can sing or play the national anthem with sincerity. Icy’s brother, Jack Frost Bridge, is an alumnus of DePauw University.
Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest The Chick...
June 2011
5 posts
Not words of routine, this song of mine.:... →
maggitarwv:
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of…
love this book.
“Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can’t...”
– Maude (via nituhcalp)
NEW BON IVER. PRETTY FUCKING BRILLIANT. KUDOS TO... →
May 2011
23 posts
