August 2009
libra horoscope for the week of august 27th
Years ago, a TV sitcom called The Andy Griffith Show ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which he thrashed and pummeled his co-star. When he asked his psychiatrist about the meaning of this dream violence, the shrink speculated that he was trying to kill off his old image. I recommend that exact strategy to you now, Libra. Don’t actually wreak any real-life mayhem. Rather, see if you can have a dream or two in which you destroy a symbol of the life you’re ready to leave behind.
“Shortly before her death, her good friend Doug Foster wrote a loving letter to her. “A bit over the top, isn’t it?” she inquired, peering at him over her glasses. “Well, given the circumstances…” said Doug. “One must never write over the top,” said Decca.”
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i think i'm a reincarnated irish man.
america's 25 douchiest colleges →
men.style.com
hahaha. oh my god. u.t. at #24. i wish there was something other than the burnt orange, though i gotta admit the burnt orange is pretty obscene when seen en masse in person…
(via GQ)
i’ve kept a fortune (from a cookie) at the bottom of the little bowl i keep favorite bracelets in on my dresser.
it is Soon, someone will be sharing your warmth
i would have just tweeted this (shorter, of course), but it’s so moony
“As for Jackie and Babe … I saw them both (separately) on Madison Avenue. With perfect Kenneth hair helmets (no longer seen), extraordinary “boat” low heeled pumps (no longer made) and a bamboo-handled Gucci bag I have never seen replayed. They were always “perfection”. They also wore fabrics I don’t see anymore, such as real silks and gabardines, and not the parachute and wrinkled polyester we see now. Ah, China.”
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“a fragrance inspired by her brother’s hair, her father’s tobacco, and old, forgotten houses”
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
—Rollo May (via sagacious)
NANCY to DEBORAH
3 November 1967
I say I’ve found the second hedgehog which I thought had been chased away. No- he’s been with us all along unseen unsung, in an only fairly cosy nest in the unused green house. So I’ve made him more comfortable. But I’m slightly off hedgehogs since reading that their brain development is very low- only a shallow groove between the lobes. I liked to think of a brilliant genius scuttling about my garden & dreaming of clever dreams all day & propounding extravagant theories as to how the milk gets to him in an apparently cow-less suburb. Nothing’s ever as nice as one thinks & here I am, landed with two halfwits.
Why Is the Blond Smiling? →
nytimes.com
how didn’t i know that tinsley & topper mortimer have been separated since january?
i guess because i barely read the magazines i used to, or any at all.
also, parkavenuepeerage sucks and only leaves me longing for socialiterank.
also, most people don’t care.
“Even though nostalgia hits every generation, it seems notably early for 28-year-olds to be looking back. One possible explanation, say authors who focus on generational identity, is the effect of the Sept. 11 attack. The political and economic climate of the late ’90s had been as soothing as a Backstreet Boys ballad: no wars, unemployment as low as 4 percent, a $120 billion federal surplus.”
—dispatch.com
“dollops of margarine that barely hint at butter”
—wsj, thanks for coming up with my new way to diss people
“My mirrored twin, my next of kin, I’d know you in my sleep and who but you would take me in, a thousand kisses deep.”
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Leonard Cohen (F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs) (via filthygorgeousthings)
Leonard Cohen (F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs) (via filthygorgeousthings)
“The Food For Love concession was running low on burgers so it raised prices from 25 cents to $1. Festival-goers saw it as capitalist exploitation, against the spirit of the festival, so burnt the stand down.”
—40 Things You Didn’t Know About Woodstock
can we just take a moment
to reflect on the fact that i bought all of this at target yesterday for $12-
- 90 sticks of eco-friendly/natural incense (in tea leaf & honey, blue sage & aloe, and grapefruit & white peach)
- 30 blank cds (check it, memorexxxx)
- a new pumice stone
so, to recap, 90 sticks of incense +30 blank cds + a pumice stone= TWELVE dollars
i am beside myself. really.
“That’s why I find racism so curious. There are so many reasons to dislike people, and you’re going to go with color?”
—Shalom Auslander, This American Life (via sagacious)
Play
Listen
‘22’- Lily Allen
“Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings” —from ‘chronos’ by nicanor parra
The months go racing by
And the years have wings” —from ‘chronos’ by nicanor parra
