January 2012
186 posts
59 Things You Didn't Know About Virginia Woolf →
awritersruminations:
A few of my favorites:
After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a suet pudding.
Woolf listened to Beethoven’s late quartets while writing The Waves.
Woolf once discovered a diary she had written during one particular sane and lucid period in...
Watchnpr:
@nprfreshair:
Terry Gross was on The Colbert Report last night. If you missed it, you can watch the video here. Also, here’s a list of the interviews Stephen mentioned during their chat:
Grover Norquist on Fresh Air
Bill O’Reilly on Fresh Air
Stephen Colbert on Fresh Air
I worked at WHYY with Terry Gross y’all.
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via bruisingfetish)
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I cheat on my books...with other books.
“President Obama will renew his call for higher taxes on the rich on Tuesday, and...”
– CNN, “Warren Buffett’s Secretary to Attend State of the Union.”
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(via inothernews)
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
guerrilla mama medicine: Anime and the Social... →
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social…
“While, unfortunately, the use of child soldiers is not a new topic, one...”
– The Forgotten Girl Soldier (via killingbambi)
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell (via letstalkabouted)
Free Sara Kruzan →
sexworkerproblems:
Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, after years of sexual, physical and mental abuse, she shot her pimp. When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was only 11. G.G. groomed Sara two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete and he forced her into...
“Because I want to beat President Obama”
– Mitt Romney’s response (no joke) to ‘Why won’t you release your tax returns?’ (via thesoapboxschtick)
