January 2012
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It just hit me: I am happy.
And not just right now, at this instant, but in a wonderfully vast and permeating way. Here’s to 2012.
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How I say hello: →
the-absolute-best-gifs:
When I’m meeting new people:
When I see someone cute/trying to flirt:
To everyone else:
And to my best friends:
Click to follow this blog, you will be so glad you did!
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My new year's resolution is to stop buying shit;...
I originally had zeroed in on clothing, but really, I’d like to extend it across all channels.
Exceptions include food/eating out (duh), music (also duh), books (although I probably own at least six months’ worth of books I haven’t read yet) and experiences.
But for clothes, the only exceptions are needed items I don’t already own (like a bridesmaid dress for one of the...
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“Shame on them! Shame on them, that they would rather see women deliver...”
– Jeanne Prentice, owner of the WomanKind Midwifery, re: midwives who support a current statute that outlaws assisted home births in Nebraska. For more, check out our partner station KVNO News’ two-part series: “Unassisted: Home birth in Nebraska.” (via netnewsnebraska)
December 2011
35 posts
“I wanna go to Pluto
I wanna go with you
I bring space food
They are...”
– Dream vacation, via from “Space Christmas” by Shonen Knife. (Also, according to them, Santa’s sleigh is pulled by bison. Yes, please.)
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Drank port for dinner. Whoops.
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X-Rated: Women in Music "Best of 2011" radio show... →
xmusic:
The first of two shows looking at X-Rated’s top songs and albums of 2011, including The Bears of Blue River, The Wandering Bears, Alex Winston, Gloworm, All Young Girls Are Machine Guns, The Betties, Amy Schmidt, Honeybee & Hers, Little Scream, Tennis, Arrah and the Ferns and more! Today is more regional/local music, and next week will feature predominantly (though not exclusively)...
NEBRASKA TUMBLR OF NOTE: Alma's Diary →
netnewsnebraska:
Excerpts from a diary written by a 16-year-old, living on a farm in Nebraska during the Great Depression, being posted one day at a time by her granddaughter:
“Nothing dies on the internet, so this is my part in making the record.
Grandma was seriously patient. After raising five children on a struggling farm she became a teacher for children with special needs. She also...
December 12, 1931
almasdiary:
We aren’t going to do any Christmas shopping this year. We’ll just have to love each other an extra lot.
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“if you put a slice of pizza in the middle of a volcano, i would swim thru the...”
– My friend Eric, a noted pizza fiend
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A: "Can you smile lustfully?"
B: "Oh, totally."
A: "Show me one."
B: "Well 'I' can't do it, but I'm guessing it involves lip-biting."
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Listening to electronica on my mac in a coffee...
So hip, it hurts.
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Unhappy, and I don't know why.
“Facebook is suggesting I friend my ex’s ex. You got a lotta nerve,...”
– Lady friend’s status
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"X-Rated: Women in Music," streaming live now! →
xmusic:
Just started today’s radio show, featuring I Am The Navigator, Honeybee & Hers, Cassie Morgan and the Lonely Pine, Laura Marling, Fever Ray, Givers,Maria Taylor, Little Scream, the Better Beatles, Erykah Badu, Nero, Juliana Hatfield, Irma Thomas, The Good Foot, Venus Hum and much more!
Now till 3 p.m. CT, streaming live online.
:)
November 2011
70 posts
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In April 1977, as a joke, the British newspaper... →
lickypickystickyfree:
In April 1977, as a joke, the British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement about a fictional island nation called San Serriffe. It fooled quite a few readers, which is surprising, since it’s essentially a series of bad puns about typography:
There are two main islands,…