May 2013
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Shoggoth's Old Peculiar: A Free Short Story by... →
minimal-pilgrim:
Something to make you smile:
A free download from audible.com of Neil Gaiman reading his Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and H.P. Lovecraft inspired short-story ‘Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar’ from his collection “Smoke and Mirrors.”
(It also has a preview of “The Ocean at the End of the Lane.”)
Definitely worth a listen! “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” is especially fun...
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well world
First year of teaching
DONE.
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“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years...”
– John Cho (x)
The only Asians I remember seeing on mainstream TV when I was a kid were Sulu on Star Trek, nameless Asians loading trucks in the background or dying on MASH (which was all about funny lovable white US Americans waging war on Asians), and the “ancient Chinese secret” Calgon laundry...
listening to the new album by The National
:D
and we’re seeing them live on September 17
AH YISS
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yen-yaw:
The people who have taught me about...
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Was this really written in 2010?
good GRAVY
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when you’re near
there’s such an air...
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Estrellas
The heavens in the classroom
Light shining through pinholes
The fabric of space/time fractured
by a careful first grader with silver pin
poking a constellation through resistant paper
that finally caves to her creative whims.
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Once, we turned our faces starward
and tried to mirror the concave darkness to the convex lightness of our eyes.
Carefully, I laced Orion’s triple...
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hey there fb
just so you know
I’m not telling you where I went to high school
or where I grew up
because there’s no one answer to those questions
and you are a creep
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why is this giving me all the feels
April 2013
20 posts
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“Behind the church, I kissed you with my eyes open. It was just so hard to...”
– Josh Riebock (via rebelsigh)
kaleidoscopicwhales:
wingsandtails:
I really miss watching things with my family and making inside jokes and references.
stuff that needs to happen this summer.
you know hit
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okay, so it’s three years later
but...
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i want to be with you
all of the time
/rock...
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the Kinks (continuing musical education), lesson planning (always), surrounded by boxes (unusual), happiness (lately, constant)
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Remember the time the library was packed and you...
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Cary Grant On Style: Wear It Now: GQ →
The name Cary Grant has become synonymous with “well-dressed man.” In spite of a modest avowal that he does not understand why, he invariably heads any list of such gentlemen. Only once has Mr. Grant himself authored an article on the principles of good dress. We here reprint his timeless precepts.
“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant!”
- Cary...
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http://www.wimp.com/baroquestyle/ →
Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat” in the Baroque Style
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March 2013
23 posts
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certainties in life
death and taxes
post-taxes, pre-death— CHOCOLATE TIME
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Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love
My father at the dictionary stand Touches the page to fully understand The lamplit answer, tilting in his hand His slowly scanning magnifying lens, A blurry, glistening circle he suspends Above the word ‘Carnation’. Then he bends So near his eyes are magnified and blurred, One finger on the miniature word, As if he touched a single key and heard A distant,...
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“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via phmancus)
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Games Kittens Play by Giles Turnbull →
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The paw punching and ear chewing all looks chaotic to a casual observer, but I’ve been watching these guys carefully, notebook in hand. These games aren’t random. There are rules.
Smack You in the Face
The rules of Smack You in the Face are simple. One cat sits on top of the small wooden stool at the end of the kitchen. This cat is the “smacker.”
The other cat is on the floor...
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listening to Mumford and Sons Live from Red Rocks
thinking about seeing the National (!!!!!!!!!) in September at Red Rocks
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grading papers and also weeezzeeerrrrr
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A Party of Special Magnificence
mythsnotuntrue:
I love my fiancée and am the luckiest man in the world.
#^______^#
I love you too, you wonderful man!
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Scary Go Round - Erin Winters Abdicates as Queen... →
just read it
I’m not even going to try to explain
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Heard his “If I Ever Stray” on the radio recently,...
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featherumbrellas:
The only thing better than hot boys and book stores are hot boys in book stores
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good feelings
Beach House, your students diligently/excitedly working on their literature projects, making the Mona Lisa into the “Mona Rabbit” with MS Paint and leaving it as your co-teacher’s background, a three year old student from the preschool building talking with you and holding your hand like it was the most natural thing to do while walking with you to the office
finding out what...
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/It’s never quite enough/