“Damnit, Chog!” She exclaimed from the living room.”
—Tanyssa, and her hilarious tendency to narrate what’s happening around her when she’s high.
June 2013
Still No Internet at the House
So I’ve taken to making lists of things I want to google when I’m sitting in a Starbucks with my laptop. I present the one I made last night while watching SNL:
-How did Jason Sudeiikis and Olivia Wilde meet?
-“Monkey-Man” song?
-What the fuck is a Kardashian?
-Has Nicholas Cage won an Oscar?
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
—― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via bookmania)
Random fact of the day
“Blood is thicker than water”, when used in the context of family over friends, is in fact a wildly incorrect bastardisation.
The true, full quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” and refers to relationships forged by choice holding deeper meaning than those of mere biology.
Feminist Frequency: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games →
femfreq.tumblr.com
This is VERY NSFW but this is actual abuse that this Feminist Video Game Blogger receives when she posts. I can’t even fathom who these people are, and how it’s possible they can talk to someone like this.
Thanks #XboxOne #E3 press conference for revealing to us exactly zero games featuring a female protagonist for the next generation.
— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq)
Above is a tweet I made this afternoon in reaction to the fact that none of the games presented at…
What I’m getting is that all the women in Middle Earth ran off and set up their own civilization somewhere….
“Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?”
“Nobody is going to want a female protagonist!”
“Their target audience isn’t big enough to warrant any games!”
“Women aren’t as capable as men, they don’t belong in video games!”
“If more women starting playing video games, maybe then they’d have a say in the matter!”
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
—Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via myartisnotforsale)
Both Roommates Out of Town
Will probably make Link and I a pillow fort to comfort us in our loneliness.
“By the first world war, soldiers swore so much that the word ‘fucking’ came to function as no more than ‘a warning that a noun is coming’.”
—Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr - A Review (via tylerweaver)
Chain-smoking on the porch during a party:
And other tales of social anxiety.
