January 2013
1 post
Maybe it’ll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money...
– Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff from “You Can’t Take It With You”
December 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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June 2012
1 post
February 2012
1 post
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
– Albert Einstein
I just added my blog to Findtumblr.com →
Find the best blogs in your city, Maybe you are one of them!
September 2011
3 posts
weather words
if you know me, you know that meteorology is my secret passion and my desire to be a weatherwoman has still not been satiated (not even by simulating a weather report at the newseum…)
but here’s my gripe with weather words:
when it’s raining, it rains
when it’s snowing, it snows
when it’s hailing, it hails
when the sun is shining, it’s sunny
but
when...
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
– Ray Bradbury
August 2011
4 posts
June 2011
3 posts
Bruce Springsteen's Eulogy for Clarence
I’ve been sitting here listening to everyone talk about Clarence and staring at that photo of the two of us right there. It’s a picture of Scooter and The Big Man, people who we were sometimes. As you can see in this particular photo, Clarence is admiring his muscles and I’m pretending to be nonchalant while leaning upon him. I leaned on Clarence a lot; I made a career out of it in some ways....
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the...
– George Santanaya
May 2011
1 post
I learned how to ride a bike this weekend.
so now that’s checked off my bucket list.
April 2011
2 posts
Dear Genna, knowing you is like seeing magic for the first time and being like,...
– My friend Sam.
(I love my friends and birthdays.)
a clip from a really fun night in dc. and the lumineers playing one of their stompy clappy songs.
March 2011
13 posts
a zombie apocalypse mix from yours truly →
a mix to take you through a potential zombie apocalypse from initial zombie sightings to quarantines and finally to adapting to apocalyptic life with your loved ones.
a limerick.
there once was a girl from DC
who wanted so bad to be free
she skipped to the bar
it wasn’t too far
and now in her hand is whiskey
just another day at the office gym
after running a few miles on the treadmill and working up a good sweat, I was waiting for the elevator to go upstairs when I ran into the maintenance man, Charles...
Charles: so, who won? you or the machine?
Me: the machine. the machine always wins.
Charles: ::giggles::
serving size: 4 cookies.
everythingshewrote:
do the girl scouts really expect me to stop at 4 thin mints?
thin mints are the reason i gave up cookies for lent. so good, so dangerous.
February 2011
6 posts
January 2011
15 posts
what I remember most about playing with legos →
pay attention to the largest piece of the pie chart. i totally remember how painful that was.
okay so this is the one and ONLY time that winter has produced something acceptably cool.