June 2012
13 posts
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“On the long journey, doubts were often my companions. I’ve always admired...”
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
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ShortFormBlog: Man in Oregon contracts the plague:... →
shortformblog:
A very rare occurrence, especially in the U.S.: An Oregon man in his 50s contracted the “Black Death” plague while trying to remove a dead rodent from a stray cat’s mouth. While somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 instances of the plague— yes, the same plague that devastated a third of Europe’s…
“If nothing else, Matt Weiner created a season that featured lots and lots of...”
– The AV Club
“If you’re a woman who writes and you don’t want to end up writing about being a...”
– Ellen Etchingham
(via staceymayfowles)
Double Switching: While The Men Watch: Sports... →
fuckyeahcbc:
doubleswitching:
This post is not about baseball. But it is about women and sports, and is therefore one hundred percent relevant to your humble author, and I have a few things to say.
A couple of days ago, the CBC announced their brand-new programming during the Stanley Cup finals: an awfully sexist thing called…
Well said, and thanks for posting this, I think a lot of folks...
Vintage Pens: The Tragic City →
jacobboon:
See, we were too far from the roads to ever have made industry indefinite. Squeezed off as we were from the side of the continent. Too small to put the jewel in a crown, so it remains unpolished. Rough as coal, until that runs out too.
We never had a shot.
A city of sailors and…
