Question from Pedro: On Maps
Dear Letty, are you now just answering ukulele related questions or can we still ask you anything ? If so I feel I need a new direction in my life, please could you make me a map. I will leave the choice of place etc to you Pedro xx
Phonebook Full of Accidents: Things I think about when I'm unable to sleep
Okay so I always say I would just love to have a PA to like, sort my life out for me. But about 20 seconds ago I realized that what I want isn’t a PA, but a private detective. I would pay them excessively so I could be their only client, and they would follow me round all of the time. So when I was like: ”Man who was I on the phone to the other afternoon, talking about that IMPORTANT THING” they’d be all, ”tapped your phone it was your Mum.” or if I was like: “SHIT! I should not have chucked that sketch!” they just say “Fear not, I found it whilst rummaging in your bins.” and those times I’m like “argh, I should have kept a reflective journal for this year and I can’t remember what I did ever and my work makes no sense. at all.” they’d just go “Thats cool, I’ve been keeping detailed notes on everything you’ve done this year, you can just hand those in.” then I’d say “Huzzah! my degree is saved!” we’d hug and then they’d go back to hiding in the bushes.
So much going on here.
omg on criminal minds they were at a sci-fi convention and dressed as doctor who characters
SEE I TOLD YOU GUYS!
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One small typo can change just about everything.
(via imgTumble)yourmothershouldofswallowedyou:
And this is why J. Katz is my favourite Sociologist
Preach
A little boy… sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
— from Maurice Sendak’s 2011 interview with Terry Gross. [Fresh Air via @LettersOfNote]
Ladies and gentlemen… Jon Snow.
Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83.
The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator.
Image: Ls / AP file
*sigh* Not a great way to start out the morning.
Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!
Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?
My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.
Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.
So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.
I feel so embarrassed and I can’t explain it.
“if women are so smart, why hasn’t there been a woman president?”
Is Mr. Darcy a Hipster?
While I was watching the new, brilliant episode of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, my initial thought was: “OH MY GOODNESS, THEY SHOULD MAKE DARCY A HIPSTER!! ASDGHJKL-” Now after some further thought, I realize that it wasn’t a half bad response.
Can’t one say that Austen’s Mr. Darcy is a regency era version of a hipster?* He frowns upon many of the activities which were popular during that era, such as dancing. … Do I have to say it? He finds it too mainstream.
Also, one of the reasons why most people today have a rather negative view of hipsters is that they can give you the impression that they find you ignorant, silly and not nearly as intellectual as they are. In Pride and Prejudice, most people view Darcy as being self-absorbed and condescending, and in many instances, he is.
Hipsters often seem to feel a longing for some kind of cultural knowledge and want to flaunt/spread it with others. Darcy emphasizes greatly how important he finds it for a woman to have a cultural intake, an “improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
Another point is that hipsters are part of a subculture that is very hard to define. Because of this, we often form our own preconceived (and usually negative) ideas of what they symbolize. In the same way, Lizzie’s lack of knowledge about Darcy’s true character leads her to her many prejudices (ba-dum-tss) about his arrogance and pride (ba-dum-tss).
I love LBD and what it does to my brain.
*I am here using the word hipster referring to the contemporary “subculture” of hipsters today, not the much more interesting subculture of the hitchhiking beat generation hipsters of the 40s.
YOU GUYS YOU GUYS I CALLED MR. DARCY A HIPSTER BEFORE IT WAS MAINSTREAM. I’M HAVING A META-HIPSTER MOMENT
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