February 2012
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“If you’re white, you can play a Middle Eastern prince. If you’re black, you can...”
– Chris Rock, thank you for calling it out (via hinduthug)
Hasn’t Chris Rock played a zebra twice at this point? Depressing.
“You hate apple products and wore a rainbow colored outfit for a conference. Why...”
– A very good question posed to me by one of the fellow grad students.
Tomorrow’s my first “big” conference.
AKA - networking and peacocking for academics.
I’m nervous because a lot of the other grad students have already been to these things, know how to act and what to talk about and I tend to be extremely awkward and kind of loosey goosey when I talk to people and just ramble about my dogs, the weather and how much fun cooking is because...
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A conversation I have frequently
Me: I don't think it's ever right to hit a child.
Friend: Well I was spanked/hit as a kid and I turned out fine!
Me: Yeah and I wasn't hit or spanked as a kid and I turned out fine.
Friend: What does that have to do with the conversation?
On the first day of class my professor said he never gives A’s in his graduate classes. Guess what I just got back on my latest paper.
That’s right.
I’m Hermione Granger, bitch.
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“The candidate claimed he had no idea the women at the orgies he attended were...”
– My new favorite quote from NPR (paraphrased)
....AAAAAAND.... Ryking is no longer an editor of... →
unknowablewoman:
glitchthemachine:
redlightpolitics:
Thanks to Torie for the twitter tip! (Tweep?)
BOOM
f yeah!
MORE DREAM UPDATES
Last night I had a dream I was performing in character as Dolly Parton (!?!?) and had to sing her version of “I will always love you” at my high school auditorium. Like the reasonable person I am, when I woke up mid-practice in the halls I muttered to my dog “I better go back to sleep so I don’t miss my performance”.
I did anyway. :(
“Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the...”
– Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via sharkyteeth)
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Today I decided to take pictures of the house now that we’re (almost) finished decorating. Hats off to UFYH for helping me light a fire under my butt and finally keep the house neat and organized all the time:
“Baby Baby Baby OOOOOOH”
– Noam Chomsky (via incorrectnoamchomskyquotes)
BREAKING: A photo has been leaked from the...
sinidentidades:
Some of you may find this image disturbing.
Our photographer barely got away before they attempted to castrate him and force him to make them sandwiches in their kitchen-styled torture chambers.
Look at the rows and rows of plotting misandrists rising up in anger when they realize that a man is among them.
Truly shocking.
MISANDRIST JIHAD: I saw a post by Ryking just now →
coldbitterness:
And I’m not gonna reblog it because fuck that shitstain I don’t feel like talking directly to him, I’d make more headway talking to my toothbrush
But the post was a question asking “if Chris Brown had beaten up a man three years ago, would anyone still care?” tagged with,…
