April 2010
49 posts
Today when I was walking to class, I saw a man...
He had one of those cigarette/cigar hybrids sticking out of his mouth and a determined expression on his face. He was a little dirty looking: he had stubble, he was sweaty. Spotting him for a moment was like watching an entire movie.
The world of wine really opens up when you are...
Someday, I will be able to spend more than four dollars. It will be a good day.
March 2010
31 posts
Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World... →
I am a damn fool.
A goddamn fool.
In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books....
– Lorrie Moore, “What You Want to Do Fine” (via heartbeatcity)
I love to accuse people of being drunk when they...
There is nothing better than a well placed, incredulous, “Are you drunk?”
I have a question: why are surgeons encouraged to...
Both are made of latex, right? I’m guessing it has to do with the amount of friction during sex (that of which isn’t found during surgery) BUT STILL.
I have spent way too much time thinking about this.
For his sins and his follies, the unhappiness that befalls him, his unrequited...
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
“English is the only modern language in which it has been found necessary to borrow from the Latin a word with a deprecatory meaning, the word uxorious, for a man’s devoted love for his wife. In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with sympathy and admiration; there is a feeling that it was worth while, and the man who has done it feels even a certain...
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning...
– Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (via tylercoates)
I want to read this book. I saw the movie with Gillian Anderson and enjoyed it. I assume the book would be better.
I'll be out and about in real life, and have a...
And then I get on tumblr and I can’t think of anything.
I feel like an airhead.
Remember when people used to wear keffiyehs?
LOL.
I wrote this haiku expressing my love for put-upon...
kiamatthews:
hipsterhaiku:
My life: meaningful. White sunglasses and Supras. I wish I were Carles.
Kia
No disrespect to anyone reading who actively wears white sunglasses and Supras concurrently…
Actually, I take that back. You’re probably a douche.
I think we all wish we were Carles.