November 2011
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There’s no such thing as not playing. Music has rests in it. So you’re on a rest...
– Tom Waits (via austinkleon)
October 2011
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My new thing to read on the shitter is Strunk & White.
– Abram
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iwantnothingless replied to your post: Since we have Monday off, today is our Halloween…
the waltons. THE WALTONS. How do they eve know what that is? There isn’t a lot to do in Del Norte is there?
Hahaha, yeah, the remark about The Waltons definitely came from a fellow teacher. My students don’t recognize Captain Planet or Osama bin Laden, so a show that ended fifteen years before...
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Since we have Monday off, today is our Halloween dress-up day at school. I came as a nerd, which has caused various reactions from my students. Several of them have decided that since I am a nerd, they are “the bullies.” Another one asked me to tell her, in exact terms, the causes of Precordial Catch Syndrome because “you look smart, so I figured you’d know.”
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed...
– Roger Angell, apparently writing about tonight. (via oldtimefamilybaseball)
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¡AQUI VIENE EL TEJON!
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The i-devices pushed the Internet out of our consciousness, just as the Mac did...
– “Steve, Myself And i: The Big Story Of A Little Prefix”
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People say it’s magical realism — but in the depths of my soul, it’s just...
– Haruki Murakami
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watchoutchadbites replied to your post: Blerrrrrg I am writing my I Am Legend paper right…
I TOLD YOU IT WAS HARD
I KNOW IT’S HARD.
… I’M ON THE PHONE.
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Clarification: I am not drunkenly tumblring at 11:17 AM. I have just binged on Gary Shteyngart-related information via the internet. I call this phenomenon internet drunk.
this-is-hardcore- replied to your photoset
you are going nuts
INTERNET. DRUNK.
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He says ‘totes.’ TOTES.
– Rachel on her encounter with author Gary Shteyngart
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For some reason, when I previewed that last post, the photo of Gary Shteyngart had suddenly transformed into a picture of a poached egg that I posted MONTHS ago…
Kind of like my recent post of the Magritte painting…but in reverse…what does it mean?
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eto-ee-eto replied to your quote: I either want to stab someone or do some community…
Is your life a movie?!?!?!
If it is, it’s like a much more absurd, much more boring version of Half Nelson, where instead of having a drug problem, I have a crippling addiction to Elif Batuman and withholding from myself.
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I either want to stab someone or do some community service.
– older student
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howaboutnobear asked: What website is that though? There is no link!
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I may be forced to reblog ALL of the Teddy Roosevelt posts by Pictures of War.
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You look like you’ve worked at Best Buy at some point in your life.
– student, to me
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picturesofwar:
“In his leisure time, Teddy would ride solo through the Badlands of Dakota Territory capturing outlaws, with a Winchester in one hand, and a copy of Tolstoy in the other.”