February 2011
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The 2010 Big Eat SF: 100 Things to Try Before You... →
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(Editor’s note: I was using dating as an excuse to try out all these great restaurants last year, but I ended up having to pay for both meals most of the time because I’m a sucker like that. If I had an accountant, he’d be burying his head in his hands. PSA: No free lunch this year, please pay your share. Thanks, -YMFY)
1. Roast chicken and bread salad at Zuni 2....
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January 2011
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Me: So I just deactivated my Facebook...
My roommates: What?!?! WHY?! How could you?!
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Yo-Yo Ma did a special event with Emmanuel Ax and Anthony McGill yesterday at the Chicago Cultural Center. It was probably one of the best moments of winter quarter so far, not just because of the fantastic music but because the event was about bringing together communities through the power of music. That might sound incredibly cliché, but I’ve always believed in that power ever since I was...
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woke up this morning and watched all the live feeds from egypt that were scattered across the dash.
i literally still have chills.
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within&without: A poem for swingers, a poem for... →
winout:
I like women who haven’t lived with too many men.
I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women
who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. there is a quality about women who choose
men sparingly;
it appears in their walk
in their eyes in their laughter and in their
gentle hearts. …
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Watchfrangry:
Trailer for Richard Press’s documentary on New York Times photographer BIll Cunningham. (Thanks to Sean’s FB)
I couldn’t stop grinning as I watched this. What a man.
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“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That...”
– Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via melancholynotes)
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Watchlaurataylor:
A video collage of the past several months. Shot with a Canon SD600 and Canon G12.
I couldn’t help myself — the deliciously sad, cinematic music is Max Richter - Infra 4
You can buy the song or entire album here.
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i just remembered to love, and suddenly i felt right back at home.
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JD Sees Me?: Say My Name, Say My Name →
jdseesme:
One day a long time ago I decided that I didn’t like the way my name looked with the periods in it. I don’t really know why, maybe I felt that “J.D.” more strongly begged the question “what does it stand for” and to me who’s always gone by that name it doesn’t really stand for anything. I say…
i love you
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
– Lewis Carroll (via libraryland)
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“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people...”
– Albert Einstein (via pleasingaesthetics)
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crooked indifference: Feminist Blogs You Should Be... →
abbyjean:
all of these women are amazing. they are women who, as ilykadamen wrote, “move beyond feminism-as-brand-identity; I want to read women who smash that paradigm, women who subvert it, women who resist it; women who mulch it all up and plant seeds in it.” (list compiled by …
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so i just ate fried chicken at Harold's for the...
and now i just feel drugged
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If There Was No You, Brandi Carlile
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Bartlet's Third State of the Union (2.13)
Shallick: This White House uses the First Amendment to protect flag burning, to protect pornography, to ban school prayer. Why, when the Second Amendment clearly says that the government will not infringe upon a citizens right to bear arms--
Toby: It doesn't say that.
Shallick: Toby--
Toby: In fact it doesn't say that at all. It only says that if you remove some words from it. It says "A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the government shall not infringe." The words "regulated" and "militia" are in the first sentence. I don't think the framers were thinking of three guys and a Dodge Durango.
Shallick: You don't really know what the framers were thinking, do you?
Toby: No. But I do know that if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year; they had 112. You think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
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1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
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“Put it this way, there are a few really good poets who suffered because of the...”
– David Foster Wallace (via lligv) (via libraryland)
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy via jesuisperdu. (via tobia)
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My Mr. Right, in the Land of Make-Believe →
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(Editor’s note: I bolded my favorite passage.) By KIM GAMBLE Published: January 30, 2009
SEVERAL months ago I flew to Beijing so I could introduce myself to a man I’d never met but with whom I’d been corresponding on-and-off for almost a year. He was an American, a journalist based in Beijing covering China for a United States news media outlet. I first became aware of...