December 2011
Last post of 2011!
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New Year's Resolution
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11:26, and thirty-four minutes from the new year
And I learn our television doesn’t receive any of the channels that show fireworks.
Congratulations, whoever you are, wherever you are: your New Year celebrations will be better than mine.
Every book and film I watched this year.
Repeats not counted, to hide the fact I watched A Social Network five times this year.
Books had to be read right to the finish, ditto movies.
I didn’t count television shows because ugh, fuck that.
Many of these things I have seen in past years.
BOOKS
At Home, Bill Bryson
Mistress of the Empire, Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
Mogworld, Yahtzee Croshaw
Magician, Raymond E....
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I managed to commentate on the Missing E notice,...
I have stood up to the platform I spend all day every day staring at.
My checklist for the year is complete.
“Ford Prefect explaining to Arthur Dent about why a robot said “take me to your...”
– Douglas Adams, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (via therealbbyron)
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tills:
scornandritz:
wincested:
iangallaghers:
wakingthegoldenwood:
“Stop fighting this,” e whispered, gently stroking a finger down the side of tumblr’s cheek. He flinched, but didn’t recoil as vehemently as e had expected, so he continued, rubbing soothing patterns onto the familiar blue skin.
“Don’t you see? We’re meant to be together.”
And maybe tumblr did see, deep down. But that...
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My Mother just made disapproving looks at me for whispering “chh-chh-chh-ka-ka-ka-ka” under my breath while a Tumblr page loaded.
Apparently she’s never seen the Six Million Dollar Man.
My 2011 will die the way it lived
With me sitting around in my pyjamas, not leaving the house and waiting for Tumblr posts to load.
(By the way Americans, yeah, that’s 9 hours away for us. Don’t worry. I’ll send you messages from the distant year 2012 telling you how the future is going.)
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My Internet is Capped!
Like the knee of a Skyrim guard!
Now I can’t be an (Internet) adventurer like you until I take an arrow (of more Internet) to the Skyrim-guard-(Internet)-knee-cap, which won’t happen until Monday.
TL;DR COULD EVERYONE PUT THE PUNCHLINES OF THEIR IMAGE JOKES IN THE TOP QUARTER OF THE IMAGE PLZ
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I hate it when my father gets the remote.
Now Playing: a Friday-night SBS documentary. About G-spots. I can’t see it but I can’t unhear it either.
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balcairn replied to your photo: Medellin: the world’s only slum with an escalator …
DAMNIT BRENDAN I was rll into that story until the last line
And after I went to all the trouble of identifying the actual treasurer of Medellin from a Spanish-language government website to make a shitty pun?
What did it lose me? Reblogs?
mors-victoria:
coldplayfanatics:
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The Secret Language of Bros: Inside the... →
Bro has been used as a colloquial abbreviation of the word “brother” for hundreds of years—the OED has a citation from about 1660, “I accompanyd my Eldest Bro (who then quitted Oxford) into the Country.” In recent years, however, as a standalone word (sometimes facetiously pronounced “brah”), it has come to mean something much more specific: bro as in frat bro, a casual, popped-collar term...
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Authors and symbolism →
In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers?...
