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"I made my mother translate the song lyrics, and one was more baffling than the next. No mention of Jesus, the manger, chestnuts, Frosty, Rudolph—nothing. The chorus to the most popular song translated verbatim into this: “You think you’re pretty but I don’t think so. You think you’re pretty but I don’t think so.” My mother described this as a very Swedish attitude; nobody was supposed to think they were prettier or better than anybody else. Another song was about a fox crossing an ice pond, and another was about frogs. “This place sucks!” my siter wailed. “I want to go home.”

Celia Farber on her childhood exile to Sweden.

10:00 pm • 8 January 2011 • 1 note

HBO: Temple Grandin

So very good. Claire Danes is powerful, believable, and real. Equally interested now in autism and humane slaughterhouses. Watch.

5:12 pm • 8 January 2011 • 3 notes

Police: National Media Needed in Search for Missing North Carolina Teen Phylicia Barnes

“We would really like the national outlets to help us out here, so if somebody sees her in Missouri, they are able to alert authorities quickly,” [Baltimore Police Spokesman] Guglielmi continued. “It has been incredibly frustrating for me. We’ve been pitching this since the 29th [and] have not gotten any traction. This case is no different than the Natalee Holloway case. The only difference is Phylicia is from North Carolina, she went missing in Baltimore and she is African-American.”

4:39 pm • 8 January 2011 • 63 notes

resolution

i just snapped at my mom. i waited a beat and apologized. she said: just stop. that’s who you are.

fix that.

2:11 pm • 7 January 2011 • 1 note

“There’s always going to be someone smarter, prettier, nicer. It’s better to appreciate it instead of being threatened by it or defending yourself against it.” -Mary Louise Parker

8:53 am • 7 January 2011 • 3 notes

by j.griffioen (sweet juniper)

8:56 pm • 6 January 2011 • 3 notes

marinaesque:

carlos ramos

awesome, duh

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8:06 pm • 6 January 2011 • 88 notes

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of two teenagers must be in want of a steady paycheck and employer-sponsored health insurance."

The writer stopped working to raise her two sons fulltime 14 years ago. Bravo, her choice. But now she’s divorced and unemployable. This. Is. Terrifying.

7:43 pm • 5 January 2011 • 1 note

“The hard thing about when a person dies is that there’s just so much to do.” This was what my mother said, right after getting the call from Uncle Marty letting her know that Uncle Irving had died. “And it’s sad,” I said. “Yeah, that too,” said my mother."

This whole essay is pretty great. You should probably read it.

7:19 pm • 5 January 2011 • 2 notes

davidcho:

A Japanese style of multiplication

This stuff is crazy, is there anything these (Japanese) people can’t do???

(Dunk a basketball.)

I’ve been doing this for the past ten minutes! It’s almost as fun as doing the nine multiplication table with your fingers!

11:27 am • 5 January 2011 • 117 notes