December 2009
32 posts
My Dad, The Great
We are sitting at Northstar waiting for our carry-out food and I notice that my dad has picked up a copy of BUST magazine.
Me: Um...Dad?
Dad: What? Oh. I wanted to read the article about 'What a Girl Wants" because I need some ideas for your mom for Christmas.
(In the middle of waiting for our food, I glance over at my Dad. He actually IS reading that article.)
Tact
Giles: Cordelia, have you actually ever heard of tact?
Cordelia: Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
The message is that true love will conquer all, which may or may not be true but...
– John Green
Somewhere out there
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky Somewhere out there if love can see us through Then we'll be together somewhere out there Out where dreams come true
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in...
– Bob Thaves
Youtube user: Dear John Green, you have a lot of advice for straight people about relationships, but what about gay people?
John Green: Same advice, different pronouns.
The Gay Agenda
Someone call San Francisco! The Gay Agenda has been leaked!
This from user VT Idealist on Feministing.com:
The Gay Agenda
8:00 - Networking reception and mingling with straight people. Coffee and pastries will be provided.
8:30 - Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 - Initiation of America’s youth into The Gay
10:15 - Break. Opportunity for lusting after straight people in sex-segregated...
Bad Day
Buffy: I just had a bad day.
Dawn: Well, join the club.
Buffy: Could I be president?
Dawn: I'm president. You could be the janitor.
Procrastination.
Total time spent this weekend complaing about/putting off essay: 24+ hours
Total time spent working on essay that is now halfway done: 1.5 hours
Lesson: When I plan to write a paper, I should make sure I budget in procrastination time.
Too much homophobia up in the music industry →
‘But why’s she got to go to the library?’
‘Because that’s what Hermione does....
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(via malfoyy)(via infinitebutterflies)(via thefallingoftherain)(via dreamawaymydear)
(via togetlost) (via oh-theplacesyoullgo)
(via fuckyeahhptrio)
The upside of being in the library all weekend is that my Hermione street cred has gone up.
Make it Rain.
“Rain was usually associated with the male principle, as in the case of Jupiter Pluvius whose watery ‘semen’ fertelized Mother Earth.”
-The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
I now have a new intellectual repsect for the hypermasculinity of Fat Joe’s “Make it Rain.”
http://www.metrolyrics.com/make-it-rain-lyrics-fat-joe.html
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a...
– Lady Gaga (via fuckyeahladygaga)
There’s this big hullabaloo about whether or not Lady Gaga is a feminist. I think she cleared that up for us.
Giles: Something is going to happen, soon!
Buffy: (repeating) 'Something is going to happen soon'? Gee, could you vague that up for me?
Bored Now. →
There will be no Buffy without Willow!