January 2012
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Today is a day where I am feeling stagnant and overwhelmed at the same time,
a day where I want to listen to Brian Jonestown Massacre and Belle & Sebastian while reading comic books
a day where I need to desperately catch up on work (both my actual position and the one I am “covering” until a replacement is hired)
a day where I didn’t go to the gym because I...
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work writing ≠ personal writing
work writing ≠ personal writing
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I AM WORKING ON A NEW PLAYLIST →
The new playlist is a collection of songs I would play at my restaurant, if I owned a restaurant. This is an important genre of playlist for everyone to work on. Click the link to listen.
Super Bowl Sunday
I will be in the D.C. area visiting Matt. We did not plan it this way, it is just a coincidence.
Since Matt is a big Pats fan he is throwing a party, it sounds like it is turning into a big party. It is kind of making me nervous. He said some neighbors may be coming over, and I’ve met many of them, but they are older, and married, and SUBURBAN.
On the plus side (and possibly more...
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Michael Ball fined for homophobic tweet to... →
The former Everton and Manchester City defender Michael Ball has been fined £6,000 by the Football Association for homophobic comments posted on Twitter.
Ball messaged the Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton, who is openly gay and plays the factory worker Sean Tully in the long-running soap opera. Cotton was at the time appearing in I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! “That...
The Average Person Swallows Eight Spiders a Year .... →
It was all made up to prove how ready we are to believe things we read on the Internet. Click the link.
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We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than...
– W.H. Auden, excerpt from the epilogue of “The Age of Anxiety”, 1948 (via absurdlakefront)
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The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once...
– Glenn Greenwald, Lessons of the Megaupload seizure (via absurdlakefront)
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BBC Three documentary to look at homosexuality and... →
It has often been said that having openly gay professional footballers would provide good role models for young teens who themselves are coming to terms with their sexuality. The fact that, at the present time, there are no such openly gay, or bisexual, players is often attributed to fears over their careers. It is a widely held belief that players have not come out because they fear doing so...
Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same... →
ohyeahdevelopmentalbiology:
jtotheizzoe:
Agustín Fuentes shreds a recent paper from PLoS ONE that claims a litany of “sex differences” in trying to define “masculinity-femininity” at the SciAm guest blog:
“Sex” and “Gender” are not the same thing. Sex is a biological state that is measure via chromosomal content and a variety of physiological and developmental measures. Gender is the...
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Oh Jimmy I feel your pain
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Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month →
avedanke asked: What are you talking about? GAY? ME?!
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beer beers beer beersbeers
EVERYBODY
What are you doing? Wanna drink beers?
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I’d also like to call him my husband. I’m not the biggest fan of the word...
– NPH (via bostongrits)