March 2009
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Nature v nurture? Please don't ask - Times Online →
“Nature works through nurture, and nurture through nature, to shape our personalities, aptitudes, health and behaviour. The question should not be which is the dominant influence, but how they fit together.”
About bloody time. Critical theory has been saying this for decades.
(via aldaily.com)
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“I live in a sort of furnace of affections, loves, desires, inventions,...”
– Anaïs Nin
(Reminds me of: “I do not currently live in the Present, but rather in a disjointed fusion of Nostalgia, Yearning, Fantasy, and Passing Beauty.”)
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Successful realism: makes you wish your life were like that. Successful surrealism: makes you wish your art were like that.
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Interesting new rule: No more bachelorette parties... →
uoma: newsandbooze: (via trishtumbles)
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from "Arrested Development" (much better seen but)
GOB: Nothing works in this house.
Michael: Tell me about it.
Lindsay: Was that a crack at me?
GOB: Probably.
Lindsay: Because for your information, I've got a job.
Michael: Really! What kind of job?
Lindsay: Beads.
GOB: Bees??
Lindsay: BEA-D-S.
GOB: Beads!?
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White Castle advertises lenten alternatives. This is a very Catholic city. Confirmed by Catholic friend.
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Another billboard, for a jewelry store: a diamond ring: “Wife insurance.”
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En route to Chicago, billboard advertising billboards: woods landscape: “A natural form of advertising: outdoor advertising.”
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Art is: But a shadow of the divine perfection. Form and content. More than paintings. Resistance. In the code. The new religion. Messy.
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Street Art Is Dead: http://tinyurl.com/df5ddf But Pop Art Is Alive: http://bit.ly/35xlG
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from "House"
House: Is it still illegal to perform an autopsy on a living person?
Cuddy: Are you high?
House: If it’s Tuesday, I’m wasted.
Cuddy: It’s Wednesday.
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Welcome to RTÉ Storyland →
Is it wrong, that I am an American, participating in Irish TV contests? If so, it would make it wronger for me to convince others to do the same. Ah well.
Even wronger would be, I suppose, saying: Vote for Chez Spuds.
Five months ago the call went out for new and established programme makers with exciting ideas to take part in a unique web drama competition.
The talented finalists have produced...
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YouTube - Comic Relief 2009 French And Saunders... →
The opening for part 2 is brilliant, and not just for the lovely cleavage shot.
And the musical numbers at 2:30 and 3:00, ooh la la.
“Remember we retired?” Thank you for calling attention to your own torturous ridiculousness, my beloved Jen and Dawn.
Part 1 is good, too (especially the musical number at 3:25).
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“Political, economic and moral forces are major determiners of meanings and...”
– Kathy Acker
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Why am I so fascinated by duos? Is it because I grew up in a 2-person household?
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“The principal told the girl that, while the school’s dress code does not contain...”
– Uoma Universalis: Lesbian sues to wear tux to prom
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“I know the empty ring finger. And that obsessive nature of yours, that’s a big...”
– “House”
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“When I hired you, I knew you were insane. I will continue to try and stop you...”
– “House”
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from "House"
Wilson: I never bother to wash new clothes before I wear them.
House: Right, your wife does. She wants you to feel nice and comfortable.
Wilson: Hey! I’m a man. I don’t have time for laundry; I’m saving lives here. No, she doesn’t wash them either.
House: So your skin absorbs a little dye, the odd chemical here and there…
Wilson: Well, you know me. Always living on the edge.
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“Maybe it should be more like regressing from adulthood. Or digressing from...”
– Leonor
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The Flat Lake Festival - Aug 14-16 '09 - Co... →
Last year, was one of the most awesome times of my life. This year, my ticket’s for Aug 5-22. Who’s coming with me?!
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BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | 'Real IRA was... →
A Dublin-based newspaper has received a call supposedly from the Real IRA which claimed responsibility for the attack at Masserene army base. Using a recognised codename, it claimed responsibility for the attack in which two soldiers were killed. Four other people, including two pizza delivery men, were also injured when gunmen struck at the Antrim base.
Responses:
Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein...
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French and Saunders do funny for money →
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will perform as a double act for the last time on Red Nose Day.
I wonder which “last time” this “last time” is. They’re killing me!!
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“We are made… all the more mobile when ambivalence and loss are given a...”
– Judith Butler, “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification”
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“Being beautiful on the inside doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a radical...”
– Melissa McEwan (via gauntlet) (via therandomnessofyes)
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Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Better Than Coffee:... →
Chances are good you’ve seen Michael Moschen at work and didn’t even know it. Often imitated, never duplicated, the world-renowned physical artist choreographed and performed all of Jareth the Goblin King’s “crystal ball manipulations” in Labyrinth.
The phrase contact juggling hadn’t even been coined yet. Moschen was working blind, crouched down behind Bowie, and those spheres really were made...
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A bit of Fry & Laurie
Fry: Just a moment. If you're deaf, how can you hear what I'm saying?
Laurie: I can lipread sir.
Fry: Lipread? But you're blind!
Laurie: Pardon?
Fry: How can you read my lips if you're blind?
Laurie: It's because I'm deaf, sir, that my sense of vision is naturally enhanced. Blind people have been known to have very keen hearing. So they sort of cancel each other out.
Fry: You mean you can see and hear perfectly?
Laurie: Yes. Because I'm blind and deaf. One miraculously compensates for the other.
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