May 2, 2013
“ For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t “is this a potential friend for me?” but “is this character alive?
Claire Messud on imaginary friends vs. characters with real, honest-to-goodness life! (via openbookstore) •
March 27, 2013
Nevermind, this one.

Nevermind, this one.

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openbookstore:

itsrainaingmen:

community sigils

Anyone else watch Community? These are amazing.

I think what’s weird about Community is that I don’t actually identify with any of these, but this is still awesome.

I but I guess if somehow House Nadir* and House Winger had a baby it would be me.

*All I can think of when someone uses the word nadir is DFW’s “Supposedly Fun Thing…” which makes me love Abed even more

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February 14, 2013

margeincharge:

kimbobykimbo:

khealywu:

ohheybill:

turnabout:

one-in-the-world:

these pictures of allison dancing on a table actually complete my life omg

They call me the jackal

Hyperventilating.

PLUS JIM RASH DANCING BELOW HER AHHHHHHHHH.

I want to party with CJ.

*dead*

!!!!!

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Also, the song I hear in this movie in my head is Boogie Shoes, even if C.J. is not Dana. #AaronSorkinRulesEverythingAroundMe

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January 7, 2013
scholasticbookclubs: Well, it looks like the best Grumpy cat meme that could be created HAS been created. Because how could it possibly get better than this?

scholasticbookclubs:

Well, it looks like the best Grumpy cat meme that could be created HAS been created. Because how could it possibly get better than this?

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January 4, 2013
scholasticbookclubs: A coworker got what is easily the greatest kid letter ever sent to anyone at Scholastic Book Clubs. She sent a box of books to his classroom and this was Pedro’s thank you note. My favorite part? After promising to “go into it later” he calls THE WESTING GAME “limit-breakingly stupendous.” Which is 100% true! Hi, back, Pedro! Full text:  Dear Alison, Thank you for the books you have sent to our book club group. I am looking forward to the book titled “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee,” which has the subtitle “An Origami Yoda Book,” by Tom Angleberger. Some of my favorite types of books are mystery books, like our recently finished “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin which I will go more into later. I would especially like a type of book with multiple short stories that are minimally connected, where all of the characters from each story join up at the end to solve a colossal problem including all of the previous stories’ antagonists there for the sole reason of ruining the protagonists’ lives, kind of like “The Witch of Fourth Street” by Myron Levoy. On to this. Have you ever heard of the book “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin? If you haven’t, it’s a limit-breakingly stupendous book where every prediction you make it sure to be wrong. Not that that’s a bad thing, but still. So, Alison, I have a question for you. What’s your fondest memory of Christmas? I want to know. I’d say my fondest would be the time I got to Plug n’ Play games where the controllers would be based off of the games that they contain. They were Power Ranger S.P.D. and SpongeBob SquarePants based. I can’t wait for the next set of books to arrive! Tell Scholastic I say “Hi!” Yours truly,Pedro   Let’s talk Ellen Raskin, Pedro. I like your style.

scholasticbookclubs:

A coworker got what is easily the greatest kid letter ever sent to anyone at Scholastic Book Clubs. She sent a box of books to his classroom and this was Pedro’s thank you note. My favorite part? After promising to “go into it later” he calls THE WESTING GAME “limit-breakingly stupendous.” Which is 100% true!

Hi, back, Pedro!

Full text: 

Dear Alison,
 
Thank you for the books you have sent to our book club group. I am looking forward to the book titled “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee,” which has the subtitle “An Origami Yoda Book,” by Tom Angleberger. Some of my favorite types of books are mystery books, like our recently finished “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin which I will go more into later. I would especially like a type of book with multiple short stories that are minimally connected, where all of the characters from each story join up at the end to solve a colossal problem including all of the previous stories’ antagonists there for the sole reason of ruining the protagonists’ lives, kind of like “The Witch of Fourth Street” by Myron Levoy.
 
On to this. Have you ever heard of the book “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin? If you haven’t, it’s a limit-breakingly stupendous book where every prediction you make it sure to be wrong. Not that that’s a bad thing, but still. So, Alison, I have a question for you. What’s your fondest memory of Christmas? I want to know. I’d say my fondest would be the time I got to Plug n’ Play games where the controllers would be based off of the games that they contain. They were Power Ranger S.P.D. and SpongeBob SquarePants based. I can’t wait for the next set of books to arrive! Tell Scholastic I say “Hi!”
 
Yours truly,
Pedro
 

Let’s talk Ellen Raskin, Pedro. I like your style.

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December 5, 2012
The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

darinfic:

i enjoyed this review, as i was also a pumpkins obsessed mopey teenager.

So I guess I now need to spend $130 on a 7-disc Smashing Pumpkins box set? I think 12-year-old me is happy that 30-year-old me can comfortably afford that and that I don’t think it’s a terrible idea.

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November 9, 2012
My cat laying on books series #10: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by @emmastraub

My cat laying on books series #10: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by @emmastraub

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October 16, 2012
whathappenedwas: Binder full of single ladies

whathappenedwas:

Binder full of single ladies

(Source: alexmizrahi, via bindersfullofwomen)

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October 14, 2012
My cat lying on books #10: 1Q84 by Haruki Murikami (Book 2) (Taken with Instagram)

My cat lying on books #10: 1Q84 by Haruki Murikami (Book 2) (Taken with Instagram)

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