February 2012
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via tulletulle)
“When people ask me to explain the South, I usually don’t have an answer beyond...”
– Oxford American editor Marc Smirnoff’s dismantling of Garden & Gun is totally cutting, totally smart and totally overdue. It makes me proud to be a Southerner as well as an OA contributor. (via rachael-maddux)
“What emerges over time, for those who live alone, is an at-home self that is...”
– One Is the Quirkiest Number: The Freedom, and Perils, of Living Alone
see also: being single for most of your adult life. i treasure my weirdness, as i treasure the weirdness of others.
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so here it is, made an etsy shop (super empty... →
ETSY SHOP SISTERHOOD ACTIVATE. (my meagerly-stocked-but-about-to-grow shop is here.)
“Maybe it’s time to search for other narratives. Put on Kelly...”
– at the tail end of this really smart piece about the chris brown/rihanna imbroglio, ann powers offers the best advice i’ve heard yet for how to deal with it.
Pop Sins: some reasons to go to olive garden →
popsins:
you have a Darden Restaurants gift card worth more than what you have in your bank account.
you don’t eat out much, and can’t stand the idea of going to someplace new and having your one out-of-the-house meal for the pay period be a disappointment.
you want to break up with someone in a public…
your mother has just beaten breast cancer and for the entirety of her chemotherapy...
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Unbest: Unbest: What Music Meant in 2011 →
unbest:
In early December 2011, as the great year-end listmaking bonanza began once again to sweep the Internet, we started wondering: What if there was an outlet for writers and fans to celebrate the music that meant the most to them over the course of the previous year, regardless of who made that music…
this was a really fun project, and there’s a lot of good stuff here.
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chuckhistory:
To celebrate Prop 8 being...
“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
– Letters of Flannery O’Connor
