September 2010
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I hate Facebook. If you use it more than an hour a day you should be mobilised...
– Slavoj Žižek - via VersoBooks.com
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Q: Do you think you’d act like Sally if your mom was like Betty and your...
– Q&A - Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper) - Mad Men - AMC
Right. Because most 10-year olds I hang out with use the words “unresponsive mother” and “physically absent father”. Given that she’s clearly smart and talented, why not let the kid herself speak in her own...
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hughbot asked: Doesn't Eco teach in your home town? Have you ever seen him in the wild?
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She was an astronaut.
– Bertram Cooper, Mad Men S04 E09 “The Beautiful Girls”
Finally in this series the Mad Men women are all coming into their own as characters - Sally Draper especially. A great, great script. And more Roger for everybody. WHAT. AN. EPISODE. I love you Mad Men.
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The Pope may be in Hyde Park today, but The Boss was there last year....
– via @gwto Twitter
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Granita. Flower of my adolescence, torment of my... →
ennelletti:
Umberto Eco wrote a hilarious parody of Lolita that he called Granita. In his version of the story, a young man falls in love with an old lady. It would seem that the sight of her marbled flesh, glimpsed through a window as she removed her stockings, drove him wild with uncontrollable lust. When he runs away with her, he has to travel by bicycle (he doesn’t have a driver’s license...
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Happy Roald Dahl Day! →
“Roald Dahl Day takes place every year on 13 September, on the birthday of the World’s No. 1 Storyteller.”
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Why do we love owls so much? | The Guardian →
“The owl had more than its nocturnal lifestyle to confirm its status as death’s messenger-in-chief. All of the British species have binocular vision and suggest, perhaps, what humans might look like were we ever reincarnated as birds. Throw in their absolute silence in flight, the ghostly pale of the barn owl, their predatory habits, their eerie shrieking or moaning...
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25. Bill Murray’s final inaudible whisper to Scarlett Johansson at the end...
– Bill Murray is 60! Celebrate with 60 Bill Murray facts | Film | The Guardian
(*if you are really that curious click here, but know that I agree with Slash Film: “whatever you have created in your imagination is likely better than the actual quote.” And not knowing is actually the...
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