January 2012
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“You can’t burn a Kindle.”
– Stephen Colbert
Just one of the authors speaking out against digital publishing in “Jonathan Franzen Hates EBooks“ via The Huffington Post. (via thelibrarianontherun)
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
<3 Sherman Alexie! (via...
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January 29. Applying for another part-time job (I’ve already applied for three today) and scrubbing the bathroom are equally repulsive options right now.
Think I’ll read instead.
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
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“Nocturnal tornadoes, as they are called, are like nightmares that have come to...”
– Screw you, Weather Channel.
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Tennessee is trying to pass a bill that makes it... →
Sick.
milhoos:
.. is this real?
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Mayors unite for marriage equality →
cdwarnackinspdsgn:
gaywrites:
More than 75 mayors from around the country have joined forces to declare their support for marriage equality.
“Mayors for the Freedom to Marry” is hoping to garner nationwide support for marriage equality starting at a local level, including support from the mayors of the country’s four largest cities and mayors from states where marriage equality will soon be...
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via nypl)
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WatchJanuary 17. My first Tennessee tornado warning.
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“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via gaywrites)
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Play Dates
January 9. As a 29-year-old woman with average-to-above-average social skills and intelligence, the idea of being set up by mutual friends on outings with unknown adults is vaguely humiliating. At best, I thought one of these “play dates” could be an awkward time during which I wished I was at home with a book; at worst, I thought it could result in drugging, kidnapping, and the theft...
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.”
– Langston Hughes
Me too, Langston, me too.
(via thatkindofwoman)
WatchJanuary 7. I have a living room.
Edit: I wish it was really upside down.
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“It’s time, as women that we allow each other to see our flaws and struggles so...”
– Michelle of Women Enough (via thatkindofwoman)
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Kapha Yoga
January 4. Took my first yoga class in over a year.
The last one didn’t go so well, with an instructor who seemed unprepared and mostly intent on getting us to do headstands. Since then, I had been unable to find a class in Detroit that fit with my ever-changing schedule. Result: increasingly tense muscles that culminated in a pulled back muscle on Christmas Eve that lead to another bout of...
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