February 2012
What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A... →
hipstergriff:
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a...
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“I have a lot of female fans, women are big readers, especially horror fiction....”
– Steve Niles
“I used to think Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh were the same person.”
– My coworker, who may be more observant than she realizes.
Latin Phrases to Write on your College Homework...
erinerinnn:
Handy Latin Phrases
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est. The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? How much wood would a...
State favorability poll - Public Policy Polling →
thelefthandedwife:
nanner:
greengrey:
alpha-lima-lima:
rodmanstreet:
nefariousnewt:
Oh look… New Jersey is in the bottom five… perhaps having a Governor who spends more time galalvanting around not running for President has something to do with it… or perhaps all the “positive” publicity Jersey Shore drums up for us…
SUCK IT, ILLINOIS AND CALIFORNIA!
Is it the politics that makes...
makeitthroughthis replied to your post: And Luck just got a whole lot more personal for me.
omgomgomgomg one day, we need to watch shows together, can this be a future plan?
The only complication with this plan is that I am technically already watching Luck with Mr. Pietra, which is why I’m watching Sunday’s episode tonight because somebody has been bouncing back from NBA...
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Thoughts on Luck.
* It does not make me want to gamble.
* It does make me want to get a horse.
* I identify with Renzo way too much.
* Watching Jerry lose at poker for half the episode made me downright queasy.
* I must have that orchestral music that played over the race or I cannot go on.
* Kerry Condon, you are beyond endearing.
* I hope future episodes also involve you getting nekkid with Tom Payne,...
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And Luck just got a whole lot more personal for...
Didn’t think I was going to hear my hometown referenced in an HBO show. There are a lot of horse farms in Tehachapi, it’s true.
Watchsomeauthorgirl:
thedailywhat:
No Shoes, No Same-Sex Marriage, No Service of the Day: New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will have find a new place to get her hair did after her openly gay stylist refused to allow her back in his salon until she changes her stance on same-sex marriage.
“The governor’s aides called not too long ago, wanting another appointment to come in,” Antonio Darden,...
fiftysevenacademics replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
I’m really, really sorry this happened to you. I know how it feels. When ER docs are good, they’re angels. And when they’re bad, they’re fucking sadistic assholes.
At least I got one of each.
fiftysevenacademics replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
I’ve had ERs use pelvics as a punishment before. My appendix is still here, but I had every single symptom. I’d been in that ER before, so that doc decided to do everything ELSE before testing me. And those things HURT when you’re already in pain.
They really do. Also, double yeesh!
brandb replied to your post: brandb replied to your post: I came close to dying…
But if they didn’t figure out exactly what it was first, how would they know how harshly to judge you for it?
DING DING DING!
brandb replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
Wow, you’d think even the most own-asshole-gazing resident would give in after the third test came back negative and go with the wacky appendicitis diagnosis. Sure it’s out there, but as Sherlock once said about eliminating evidence…
The way I figured it, they were going to have to cut me open and take something out one way or...
shewalkslikethunder replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
Holy shit, good for that other doctor! Sounds like the resident forgot you were a human being, not a medical puzzle for her to play with.
Yup.
hollywoodfetus replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
I understand how under pressure ER docs are, but sometimes they really push their fucking luck. I had awful pain, same as you (mine turned out to be a 16mm ovarian cyst) but until they did the ultrasound to find out, no one believed I was in pain.
Oh good Lord. Yeesh!
glossylalia replied to your post: I came close to dying when I was 17
I similar story happened to a friend of mine I took to the ER in college. A kidney infection bad enough to kill her, but the resident spent 3+ hours focused on her sexual history. I almost decked that woman. How do these people even get to be Drs?
I suspect these are examples of people who get into the field for prestige,...
I came close to dying when I was 17
because an emergency room doctor couldn’t accept reality vs. her perception of my sexuality.
I had acute appendicitis. I had been barfing and experiencing a lot of pain in my lower right side for about 42 hours. My mom had taken me to the emergency room at about 36 hours. The nurses took a couple of blood tests and determined that my white cell count was elevated like whoa. The most...
la.donna.pietra: I'll be honest with you →
chockfullofhoot:
hiddenpattern:
anedumacation:
ipsadixit:
If I were the queen of England (married to Harry of course, shut up flawless logic is flawless) I would start giving out knighthoods to my subjects for contributions made to the overall hotness of the country.
Also see: Sir Benedict…
Sir Daniel Radcliffe of the flexible tongue. Sir Stephen Frye of the all around awesomesauce....
I'll be honest with you
hiddenpattern:
anedumacation:
ipsadixit:
If I were the queen of England (married to Harry of course, shut up flawless logic is flawless) I would start giving out knighthoods to my subjects for contributions made to the overall hotness of the country.
Also see: Sir Benedict Cumberbatch His Royal Neck of the Awesome, Sir Dan Stevens His Royal Handsomeness, Sir Idris Elba His Royal...
I never realized that Mr. Collins refers to women...
askmrwcollins:
ladonnapietra:
One more reason to dislike him!
Oh my, do excuse me if I prefer to use synonyms in my daily speech, sir or madam…
This reblog just made my whole day. I commend you, sir or madam.
IN DEFENSE OF THE HOT MESS / A CALL FOR LADY...
findesiecle:
Lately I’ve been really into weird concepts of something like failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity? Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I’ve been doing my hair in big curls with my kinda-crappy-blonde-dye-job and wearing a ridiculous faux-leopard coat with ripped tights and messy eyeliner, and part of it comes together more in at least 47...
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“As a woman with writerly delusions, I took it personally. It validated so many...”
– Meg Clark, on Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article about Edith Wharton.
From Today's Blog on Who Jonathan Carroll is, and...
neil-gaiman:
“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.” -Haniel Long, Notes...
How much will you pay for birth control over your... →
A handy and depressing calculator.
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Interesting names, 19th century edition
I am currently reading a biography of Erastus Snow, one of the early pioneers of southern Utah. He is not an overwhelmingly exciting person, but since I’m writing something that includes him as a character, I figure I should do some research on him. About the most thrilling thing I’ve discovered so far is that his family members had some seriously interesting names, which is about...
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Advertisement on Oxford Street shown only to women →
creeps this woman out big time.
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“DAMMIT CAT GET OFFA THERE!”
– my dad, circa 1980-2001, when the last of our cats passed away
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“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
– my dad, circa forever. Probably not original to him either, but that didn’t stop him from being right.
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“Someday, the United States will elect a black man as president. However, he...”
– my dad, circa 1987
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“Conservatives don’t really care about abortion. They’re way more...”
– My dad, circa 1990. One of many things he has been right about over the years
14kgoldnyc replied to your post: brandb replied to your link: Rick Santorum,…
I think people like Santorum assume that Idahoans *don’t realize that*—that they’re not actually going to see what it would lead to. That bespeaks a fully corporation-ized mind.
I agree, and it is further proof that he has all the sense that God gave an eggplant.
brandb replied to your link: Rick Santorum, managing to piss off most of Idaho
They want to privatize public land now? I can’t even follow that train of thought, I’d have figured they’d be all misty-eyed about camping with their dads in the good ol’ days of nostalgic ’50s Americana. Oh how big industry donations change us.
He does. Idaho residents, not so much. The surest way to lose a vote...