but it feels cool to be wasteful.: Archive

Apr 29th

New Hampshire Senate Votes to Legalize Gay... →

cwashnock: “The Democratic controlled New Hampshire Senate passed an amended version of the controversial measure to legalize gay marriage today. The vote was 13-11 in favor of the measure. The House passed a similar measure last month by a 186-179 vote. The two chambers must reconcile small changes between the two measures in a conference committee but this is seen as a technicality....

Apr 29th

Perez Hilton: Aubrey O'Day Will Make Out With You... →

Apr 29th

cwashnock: «Escúchame bien, chico. Soy inmigrante dominicana en España, pero yo creo que tu país es la luz del mundo. Un negro - como yo, como yo - es tu presidente. Todo es posible in tu país. ¿Quién sabe? Un día, puedes ser el presidente. Todo es posible en tu país. Un presidente americano negro - ¡negro!» -My host mother, who delivered a ten minute monologue on the inspiration and...

Apr 29th

Yes, Looks Do Matter - NYTimes.com →

“Even when presented with multiple exceptions to the stereotype, we often keep the broad category and simply create a subtype, Professor Dovidio said. For example, President Obama challenged negative stereotypes about blacks, but some people may have come up with a subtype of blacks — black professionals — rather than challenge the overall stereotype.”

Apr 26th

Think Big, Even in Defeat - NYTimes.com →

“But Mr. Obama can take heart from the knowledge that all Johnson’s major initiatives remain a part of the national life: civil rights and voting rights; Medicare and Medicaid; federal aid to elementary, secondary and higher education; the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development; environmental protections; consumer rights; medical research; and support for the arts...

Apr 26th

Same-Sex Ruling Belies the Staid Image of Iowa →

cwashnock: “‘I don’t think it’s right, but it’s a little like getting married itself, you know? If you think you’re going to change someone, you’re wrong. So I’m better off to leave well enough alone on this,’ said Jeni McCubbins.” (via NY Times)

Apr 26th

Evan Rachel Wood gets cast as a vampire in "True... →

yes!

Apr 24th

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about...”

– Stephen Hawking (via raygrass) (via heather-rivers) (via tuttifanni) (via bigfun)

Apr 24th

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Thanksgiving-Comets

Apr 22nd

AV Club Interview with Bret Easton Ellis. →

synecdoche: one of my favorite authors. Just finished reading The Informers.

Apr 22nd

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Apr 22nd

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Is Being Overweight a Climate Problem? - Green... →

Apr 22nd

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What’s the point of asking a beauty queen a question if you’re not going to base your vote on how she answers the question? Bill O’Reilly really makes me upset. It also makes me upset how much my brother and parents love Bill O’Reilly.

Apr 22nd

“Just because Yale is lost doesn’t mean I’m going to a non-Ivy, reading...”

– Blair Waldorf on NYU.

Apr 21st

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Apr 20th

Poll: Majority in NY support same-sex marriage... →

cwashnock: “Fifty-three percent of New Yorkers questioned in a Siena College Research Institute poll support a bill that would allow same-sex couples to wed, with 39 percent opposing the move.” (via CNN)

Apr 20th

Advertising - The Older Audience Is Looking Better... →

“…boomer households account for unexpectedly high percentages of sales of products considered mainstays of younger consumers. That includes beer, 59.7 percent; carbonated beverages, 58.9 percent; and candy, 54.2 percent… The changing of the guard among older consumers is even becoming part of the popular culture, he added, citing television shows about “cougars,” older woman who...

Apr 20th

“Like her [Margaret Thatcher], he [Tony Blair] preferred to surround himself with...”

– Tony Judt, Postwar.

Apr 20th

Apr 19th

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Apr 19th

I'm sick.

I’m staying in with some vegetable soup, a 66cl of Nastro Azzuro, nyquil, and many episodes of Bones to watch.

Apr 18th

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because...”

– Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden (via anagneia) (via bigfun)

Apr 18th

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Apr 17th

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Apr 17th

Apr 16th

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Westchester trailer. I grew up in an area along the Long Island Sound, with houses like they show at the beginning. Then we couldn’t afford it anymore so we moved to White Plains, where they show…the mall. This looks ridiculous.

Apr 16th

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I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light-Brand...

Apr 15th

New York governor to propose legalizing same-sex... →

ctatum: cwashnock: (via CNN) “There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a civil union are still not entitled to somewhere between 1,250 and 1,300 civil protections” available to married couples, Paterson said. “We would like to try to address that at some point in the near future.”

Apr 15th