February 2010
dear taylor swift, please eat something. you're so...
you may be america’s sweetheart, but i kind of want to force-feed you cheeseburgers. am i the only person who thinks this girl looks anorexic?
January 2010
sometimes i don’t get those things on facebook that say, post a picture of a celebrity you’ve been told you look like. i go honest—leslie feist, imogen heap, tina fey if i’m wearing my glasses. they’re none of them classic beauties (face it, imogen’s downright weird), but they’re appropriate. other folks i see have seriously warped ideas of their...
“cats are like the equivalent of human hipsters—even if you don’t...”
– me, in a conversation with my boyfriend
jd salinger died today.
:(
HOWL. →
!2010, James Franco stars as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a biopic about the obscenity trial surrounding Ginsberg’s epic Beat masterpiece, ‘Howl’.
My Beatnik brain just -gasmed. Totally.
Think it’s time to break out my Ginsberg anthology again.
rediscovered berlin dada. holy god, i love this...
raoul hausmann
hannah hoch
also hannah hoch
so thankful to my boyfriend, who is even more of an art history nerd than i am, for reminding me about this movement. now remembering some serious pda at the museum of fine arts in boston this summer, and running all over the museum in search of their only edward hopper painting. are we dorks? fuck yes. do we care? not in the least.
i keep meaning to make art and post it on here but i never do.
fuck.
apparently i am impact, the font of lolcats... →
epic somniloquy! →
my new hobby is going into stores, finding any twilight-related material, and hiding it in some other part of the store so no one can find it. just doing my duty as a supporter of real literature.
new cocktail: the 'non sequitur'
okay, so i’ve been mentally experimenting with inventing drinks again, and after coming across the term ‘non sequitur’ (‘it does not follow’) on one of my latin websites, i thought it would be a perfect name for a really potent cocktail. i haven’t had a chance to try it yet seeing as my parents do not encourage my perfectly legal alcoholic experiments, but i...
i started taking librax today and i’m so excited! hopefully it’ll work as well as the pharmacist says it does!
it is a mark of extreme self-restraint that i did not slip a copy of wheelock’s latin in with my online textbook order today (my father is paying and he knows i am not taking a latin class, as much as i dearly want to learn it)
sometimes i feel like females who don’t support a woman’s right to choose should be brutally gang-raped, then brought to the hospital, given a baby bottle and a crib, and be told, ‘good luck with your kid. well, you voted to ban abortion.’
forgive me, i’m just a bitchy vindictive liberal i guess.
on facebook there is a sort of game going on: change your profile picture to a fictional character who you think represents your personality. i don’t do facebook games, but it got me thinking. i have a lot of experience with fictional characters. so who exactly do i think i am? i would have to say i am a mix of the following:
i couldn’t be happier. i love these characters.
i never thought i’d say this but i miss rhode island (which i will be returning to in a week):
also i miss a dark-haired law-school hopeful who will not be returning to rhode island in a week because he is done with classes but not done with studying, and needs to visit me because i love and miss him
also going down to the beach at 2am to clear my head after one too many gin-and-tonics
...
this is exactly why i don't own sweatpants. →
japan confuses me even more now. →
In response to the video I posted earlier today about “Sal9000” and his marriage to a videogame character, my boyfriend sent me this link to a NY Times story about the ‘2D love” subculture in Japan, which basically consists of middle-aged, romantically-unsuccessful anime-fanatics (people with obsessive interest in anime are called otaku, I have since learned) who consider...
the smallest apartment in new york city? 175... →
Okay, I admit to occasionally fantasizing about living in a cramped city apartment. But nothing this extreme!
new elizabeth kostova!
it’s getting mediocre reviews, but i loved ‘the historian’, so i’m excited.
ever wonder how often different body parts are... →
mail came today, big envelope with info about graduation.
WHATTHEFUCK I’M GRADUATING IN MAY
this is seriously scary.
i’m going to have to wear actual shoes.
i’m going to have to find an actual job.
i’m going to have to be sober on a regular basis.
oh holy fuck make it go away.
big fake glasses amuse me. i want these. →
course, i’d look like a total tool, but they’re fun.
accidental discovery: the hardest i've laughed in... →
today i:
accidentally became a computer hacker
took the dog for a 3+ mile walk in the woods
misjudged the trail and had the dog fall into a swamp
cleaned squelches of green-brown swamp ooze off the dog’s legs and underbelly
realized my life right now is a chess game. even among my family one wrong move will fuck me over. politics only dreams of this kind of plotting.
wow. epiphany.
maybe i’m an idiot to not have seen this
but i prefer to think i’m just 21 and american.
gregory house is totally sherlock holmes.
no lie.
house = ho(l)me(s)
wilson = watson
shit, the universe totally makes sense now.
Urlesque rocks my socks! →
i heart teh interwebz.
icono-diagnostics? worth a look. →
“Cacoethes Scribendi.”
– Juvenal, 1st-century Roman satirist
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”
– - occam’s razor
i am using this as a mantra to hopefully control my anxiety disorder. interpreted as ‘the simplest explanation is usually the best’, or, in my life, ‘amber, do not overreact and exaggerate everything.’
hey guess what i'm making some half-assed new...
and i mean really half-assed, since last year was so good i just wanna keep on keeping on
be more adventurous when it comes to dyeing my hair
shop at more thrift stores
realize drinking 20 ounces of limoncello in one night is really, really stupid
get my navel pierced
save more money (easy to do seeing as i do not plan to repeat the limoncello experience)
be more outgoing
network
keep...