August 2011
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Ice cold coconut water = slightly sweet and mildly tolerable.
Coconut water at any temperature other than ice cold = WHAT IS THIS DISGUSTING SLUG IN MY MOUTH!?! IT IS SLIMY AND REVOLTING AND NOW I WANT NEVER TO EAT AGAIN!!
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Doctor: It’s just a nightmare, Reinette. Don’t worry.
Reinette: A nightmare?
Doctor: Everyone has nightmares, even the monsters under the bed have nightmares.
Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
Doctor: Me.
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Is Doctor Who one of those things, like a new vocabulary word, where once you learn about it you see it pop up *everywhere* a hundred times a day?
Because, seriously, I just finished Season 1 and now it’s like *all* over my Dashboard and my Twitter feed and I’m even overhearing people talking about it in Trader Joe’s. What gives?
“A lot of people seem to implicitly think that racism, misogyny, and homophobia...”
– A comment by Autumn Harvest on No Cookies For Me: Blatant Sexism *Isn’t* Benign, Thank You… (via cultureofresistance)
Reblogging for truth and because I just had this exact fight with a friend over this.
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I am a Google-Fu master!
If searching for an obscure hobbyist FF writer with a common name and a story I couldn’t remember the title of is a contest, I’d win. I had an author first name, a single sentence quote, one character name for certain, and a short-list of last known hosting sites. I knew I was in the trenches when I found that the author’s personal domain had...
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Just wanted to remind my #LAThtr friends that Gospel According to #FirstSquad is running for 2 more weekends.
Here’s a little of the (amazing) press we’ve been given THE LOS ANGELES TIMES — CRITIC’S PICK “This ‘Gospel’ is chapter and verse one of the finest war plays in recent memory.” (Read the full review here) L.A. WEEKLY — GO! “Electrifying!...
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WatchKumail Nanjiani makes me so happy.
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I just find it totally unbelievable that a T-Rex would run at top speeds chasing a bunch of humans about the size of its big toe for food - not to mention stepping on one as it goes and totally not caring. That’s like a person running though the forest after a bunch of runaway grapes. Then after considerable effort sticking its nose into a waterfall and reeeeeeaaaaaaaching for them, roaring...
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Random thoughts of the day
Thing I learned today: The French phrase “et Cie.” translates to “& Co.” Cie. being an abbreviation of “compagnie” So now I’m wondering if that’s where the name “Etsy” comes from - even though it’s a misspelling of a mispronunciation.
Also, saw Captain America this week, which I pretty much loved. Especially the shots of...
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WatchHarry Potter dressed up as a teen comedy. Love it!
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
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