April 2009
Nicholas Kristof - Is Rape Serious? - NYTimes.com →
katoleary:
hithisisdanielle:
(via xyzprincess)
“Why don’t police departments treat rape kits with urgency? One reason is probably expense — each kit can cost up to $1,500 to test — but there also seems to be a broad distaste for rape cases as murky, ambiguous and difficult to prosecute, particularly when they involve (as they often do) alcohol or acquaintance rape.
“They talk about the...
“Ninety percent of clients will be happy with your first draft. Five percent will...”
– Sabrina Dent, talking at FOWD (via nikf) (via iamdanw)
superfem: RT @nicknotned:
Don’t worry about Gawker. It will be scuttling around with the cockroaches after the apocalypse.
It already is.
(drumkick)
Tim O'Reilly : Reinventing the Book in the Age of... →
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someone should make a single-serving site that mad-libs “now that topherchris works for tumblr __________________”
hmmm who can create it..
“My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the theory in which Ferris...”
– Metafilter User
I will never be able to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off the same way again.
(via twrecks)
Always remember: all stories are solipsistic, like a freudian interpretation of dreams.
homeofthevain:
Vice Dos & Don’ts of photography
Don’t: Text
Please don’t write on your prints, or scratch words into your negatives, or project text through the slide, or whatever. Has that ever been done well? Writers aren’t illustrating their books with bad photos, are they? So don’t illustrate your photos with bad writing. You can’t just throw in some words to beef up a boring...
HEY KIDS →
Don’t forget to be awesome today
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“we should make a movie where the new movie 17 Again gets struck by lightning and...”
– Ronen V (ronen) on Twitter
You heard it hear first, kids →
hitRECord Joe:
re: HESHER
It’s true, this site is NOT about my professional acting career. We’ve had many a discussion (mostly on the old v2 Forum) about how we’re not trying to make a “fan site”. Even writing those words makes me a little embarassed. So this isn’t that. But I’m just really excited and wanted you guys to know. Before starting work for...
“I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.”
– Salma Hayek (via quote-book)
“What I’m looking for isn’t found on the internet.”
– Twitter / chiert
“Possibly the best caper since the Muppets.”
– NoraLeah.tumblr.com (via brothersbloom)
On my newfound obsession with Scott Pilgrim
biancarocksout:
Me: OMG I’m OBSESSED with Scott Pilgrim Ronen: I FUCKING TOLD YOU… Now thank me for taking you to his party & go buy book 1. Me: I want to re-meet him. And I’m buying them ALL. Ramona is badass with the evil bf’s and the shorts and the tights. I want Scott Pilgrim to be my boyfriend! Ronen: duh, he’s awesome. You have excellent taste. Now what...
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Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy -... →
“Spambots don’t have memory” -kenyatta
“Negative thinking is a luxury we can’t afford.”
– Twitter / Yoko Ono
“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition,...”
– Michael Chabon (via meaghano)
