December 2009
thommo:
buyhercandy:
thommo:
4 hours till party time!!
The weather isnt looking the best for a pool party though!
Don’t worry, I just checked the BOM Radar and it doesn’t look like there’s any rain on the way at all. So it should still remain around 29/30C today/tomorrow, and tonight’ll be fairly warm!
Why thank you kate!
Now I just need think if there is any music i want to download...
thommo:
4 hours till party time!!
The weather isnt looking the best for a pool party though!
Don’t worry, I just checked the BOM Radar and it doesn’t look like there’s any rain on the way at all. So it should still remain around 29/30C today/tomorrow, and tonight’ll be fairly warm!
“If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly...”
– Maureen Dowd, NY Times (via underpaidgenius) (via buffleheadcabin)
Dowd irritates me, but…you know what? Yes.
(via robot-heart-politics)
“To express horror at the sexualised tackiness of women’s fashion, to say that...”
– Bidisha (via gauntlet) (via alohanico)
‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Returns With Prequel, Reissued... →
molls:
interweber:
Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a “cassette player” has become “headphones” and a “perm” has become “an expensive hairstyle.”
I’ll buy it. And I’ll certainly buy these books. ESPECIALLY, because Ann M. Martin is in. MISS YOU BSC!
This makes me sad. Those references were outdated when I...
“It’s obviously nonsense. Politicians would be surprised how much support a...”
– Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on asylum seekers. (via Sydney Morning Herald: Thatcher wanted Fraser to buy island for refugees)
“Tony Abbott says he will turn asylum-seeker boats back out to sea if the...”
– Turn the boats away, says Tony Abbott | Herald Sun
I don’t care if they offer me thousands of dollars; I will never vote for The Liberals while Tony Abbott is their leader.
Lies I've Told to My Three Year Old Recently, Raul...
kathleenjoy:
Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain pipes. If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago. Everyone knows at least one secret language. When nobody is looking, I can...
The worst thing about people dying....
heuteund:
ninefruits:
heuteund:
thedarkspark:
ninefruits:
…is not their actual death, but their post-death ubiquity.
[insert rant about how that generation of Australian musician NEEDS to die and their hold on the Australian music consciousness must be destroyed immediately]
You know that as your Internet big sis I love you Grant, but sometimes you are just a complete idiot.
In 2007...
“Politically, [the Baby Boomers’] numbers and self-regard are basically the...”
– The End of the 00s: How To Lose Your Idealism In Under Ten Years, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper | The Awl
“This year, I have committed more faults than ever before and I have never been a...”
– Victor Hugo, in a letter to Victor Pavie from July 25, 1833 (via non-specific)
“Books are notes from the field, bound and domesticated, life brought into narrow...”
– Joshua Ferris, writing against culling your book collection. (via gregbrown) (via thebronzemedal)(via jeanhannah)
It might be worth pointing out that Magiska is... →
areminder:
(via vanmega)
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Life After God, Douglas Coupland (via lyriquediscorde) (via northerndownpour)
cankerbloxxom:
An Horse - Little Lungs
they...
In Voting Booth, Gay Candidates Are Getting... →
sylviakoh:
Some political scientists say the rise in openly gay candidates’ winning public office is a better barometer of societal attitudes than are the high-profile fights over same-sex marriage.
“Gay marriage ballot measures are not the best measure,” said Patrick J. Egan, a political scientist at New York University who studies issues surrounding gay politicians. “They happen to be about...
Police Are Said to Have Killed 10 in Iran Protests... →
Police officers in Iran opened fire into crowds of protesters on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and opposition Web sites said, in a day of chaotic street battles that threatened to deepen the country’s civil unrest.
The protests, during the holiday commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr, were the bloodiest and among the largest since the uprisings...
“Still, I’m not convinced this is progress. Without sounding too graphic, all...”
– Benjamin Law on Michelle Malkin, in Peril magazine » Michelle Malkin: Awful yet strangely hypnotic
“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can’t...”
– Interviewed in 1957 for the The Paris Review, Truman Capote was asked about his short story technique…
(via) (via whilebird)
(via literarypiano)
Your Flight Experience Will Now... Suck.
negevrockcity:
New TSA regs for all international flights entering the USA, via Air Canada: Only one carry-on bag per person. PERIOD. Computer? Clothing? Books? All in one small bag, son. No leaving your seat in the last hour of your flight. Passengers cannot get up to stretch their legs, go to the restroom or to assist children/elderly/the disabled in the last hour of flying. Passengers may not...
Married Jonas Brother Says Sex Not Worth the Wait →
jshdivision:
(via dashedlines)
I thought this was a link to the onion and then it wasn’t
“For the extreme left it [climate change] provides the opportunity to do what...”
– Liberals Senate leader Nick Minchin on ABC’s Four Corners. What a nutcase. This is the same guy who didn’t believe that cigarettes are addictive or that passive smoking is harmful. (via alexjcampbell)
Nick Minchin is on to us, guys!
Young Swedish women more likely to have sex with... →
Young Swedes have ever more fluid definitions of sex and sexuality, according to a new study from Mälmö University in southern Sweden. Women in particular are more likely to pursue sexual activities with others of the same gender.
…
[Sven-Axel] Månsson and colleague Kristian Daneback surveyed 855 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 via an online questionnaire. The survey showed...
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via poortaste) (via bmichael) (via thedarkspark)
“The women poets I know are beginning to understand feminism as a sly term that...”
– Eileen Myles, via the Poetry Foundation
I love this description of feminism - Myles describes it not as a rigid set of rules but as a “moving abstract”, a constantly evolving way of looking at and interacting with the world. (via thebronzemedal)
thedarkspark:
thumbswithhands:
LOS...
“Above all, we are lesbians out of pleasure, intelligence, and recognition of the...”
– Nicole Brossard (via gilliansees)
