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Cilantro. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:55:54 -0500

Cilantro. (Taken with instagram)

I remember when these cereals were called Sugar Smacks and Super...

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:59:39 -0500

I remember when these cereals were called Sugar Smacks and Super Sugar Crisp.

(via Cereal Eats Face-Off: Honey Smacks vs. Golden Crisp | Serious Eats)

I’m practically a hippie now. (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 03 May 2012 17:28:09 -0500

I’m practically a hippie now. (Taken with instagram)

The Loneliness of Being a Non-Hunger Games Reader

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:16:16 -0500

The Loneliness of Being a Non-Hunger Games Reader

I finished reading all these books in the last week or so. Today...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:16:25 -0500

I finished reading all these books in the last week or so. Today I write about them. (Taken with instagram)

Walter is not a big fan of Paco, who is kind of a bully. (Taken...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:22:18 -0500

Walter is not a big fan of Paco, who is kind of a bully. (Taken with instagram)

(via TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Lorax Speaks for the Trees, and...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:57:29 -0600

(via TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Lorax Speaks for the Trees, and Now the SUVs - Boing Boing)

"So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:34:28 -0600

“So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language — and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers — a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

(via Our First Bit of A Look at the Super Girls of Lauren...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:42:20 -0600

(via Our First Bit of A Look at the Super Girls of Lauren Faust’s Super Best Friends Forever)

A Love Poem For Girls Who Read

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:04:37 -0600

A Love Poem For Girls Who Read

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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:03:28 -0600

"The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work, too. People in groups..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:12:04 -0600

“The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work, too. People in groups tend to sit back and let others do the work; they instinctively mimic others’ opinions and lose sight of their own; and, often succumb to peer pressure. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a stance different from the group’s, we activate the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the fear of rejection. Professor Berns calls this “the pain of independence.””

- The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com

"Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:14:17 -0600

“Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.”

- Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors | the narcosphere

S&M Brady Bunch

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:07:22 -0600

S&M Brady Bunch:

Dream posts suck, but when you have a disturbing dream involving a beloved sit-com family, you have to share it. This is almost as disturbing as the masturbating Uncle Joey dream.

Last night I…

"You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you..."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:34:13 -0600

““You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.” Carrie Brownstein”

- Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia” : The New Yorker

Because you asked: How I moved I Will Dare to a new host

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:52:48 -0600

Because you asked: How I moved I Will Dare to a new host:

Warning, about 99.99% of you are going to want to skip this one. But for that teeny tiny percent of people who have self-hosted WordPress websites, this might come in handy.

So Bakiwop asked how I…

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:25:51 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nobody sees the negative stereotypes

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:47:03 -0600

Nobody sees the negative stereotypes:

It’s ironic that a book about bullying can be so full of cruel, negative stereotypes that it verges on bullying itself.

Lucky Linderman, the teenage protagonist of A.S. King’s young…

Who needs SOPA when you have GoDaddy's shutdown policy?

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:23:05 -0600

Who needs SOPA when you have GoDaddy's shutdown policy?:

David Rusenko, co-founder of website hosting service Weebly.com, describes how GoDaddy wiped his domain name records, only restoring them after a phone call. All it took was a single…

My Christmas Wish 2011, for you, darling ones

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:10:09 -0600

My Christmas Wish 2011, for you, darling ones:

Here is what I wish for you, darling ones: someone who will change out of their pajama pants for you; a life full of hilarious serendipity, periods of time that are so full of fun and…