April 2011
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Why do I never learn not to eat chocolate in bed.
I always drop a piece and don’t notice until it’s too late and I look like THIS:
But with chocolate.
Though it still wasn’t as bad as the time a piece of a Haagen Dazs ice cream bar shell fell into my coat sleeve at the movie theatre and I didn’t realize until I got up to go to the bathroom, pushed up my sleeves to...
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Very optimistic, Jack.
CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY: Mr Simmons, be so good as to select our very best hands with holystone and swab and send them aft. And tell me, who of the officers is the most remarkable for taste?
SIMMONS: For taste, sir?
CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY: Yes, yes, artistic taste. You know, a sense of the sublime.
SIMMONS: Why, sir, I don't know that any of us is much gifted in the sublime. I do not recall the sublime ever having been mentioned in the gun-room.
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Lovely fellas. Two of them fancied me.
– The Doctor, obviously talking about Hamilton and Jefferson, because everyone knows Adams was all about his awesome wife
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30 Day Female TV Characters Meme, Day 29: A...
LIKE I COULD CHOOSE ONE.
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The Hot 100 Singles of 1965 & 1966 by pepperlandgirl (Mad Men, Peggy & Joan)
This is the friendship I wish they could have.
When All That’s Right is Wrong by ladycat777 (SGA, Jeannie Miller)
I love Jeannie Miller forever and ever and I love sibling fic, and this brings good both. AU, post “McKay and Mrs. Miller.”
Anywhere But Here by...
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Children Say Goodbye to Sarah Jane →
Lately I’ve had a hair trigger with crying, and everything has been setting me off — public radio, sad songs, stories about good parents, stories about bad parents, every film I watch — so it’s no surprise this made me completely lose it. Really touching notes from young viewers of The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who about the passing of Elisabeth Sladen.
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30 Day Female TV Characters Meme, Day 28: Favorite...
I’m taking that to mean “for TV”, to keep things simple, and I’d like to throw out a shout-out to two TV writer blogs I enjoy:
Jane Espenson, who wrote for lots of cool things but especially Buffy and gives good tips to aspiring TV writers.
Doris Egan, who doesn’t update that often now (though she did satisfyingly tear apart a sexist TV review earlier this week,...
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Reach for the stars, Sam.
Sam: I get nervous.
Donna: What happens?
Sam: I become unimpressive.
Donna: In what way?
Sam: In many ways.
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Penguin does hand-sewn book covers. →
WAAAAAANT.
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God, I love this movie.
Hobson: Bathing is a lonely business.
Arthur: Except for fish.
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I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers...
– Red, The Shawshank Redemption. (via thiscanbemine)
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Things That Suck
Forgetting how a movie you like but haven’t seen in a long time ends.
And then it turns out everyone dies.
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