January 2012
6 posts
People always say that it’s nice to have someone with whom to share the...
– I <3 <3 <3 traveling alone. When I think of my best moments, the moments when I’ve felt the most confident, the most glamourous, the most like the person I want to be, they all take place in airports and airplanes, by myself, at the beginning of a journey.
[How the Internet Changed Solo...
Every Book I Read in 2011
In 2011 I read 68 books, compared to 2010’s 57 books. Some of these are series of comics (i.e. Preacher) and are only listed once.
I did this last year because I was trying to make a best-of list, and I hate ranked lists like that, so instead here’s every book I read in 2011 in reverse order I read them (December to January). Book club picks (I’m in two) are indicated with an...
There are conversations that you’ll have in a car you’d otherwise never have. If...
– Elissa Schappell, “Aren’t You Dead Yet?” from Blueprints for Building Better Girls, which I am currently reading and will be recommending to every single person I know and don’t know. Perfect way to kick off my 2012 year in reading. (via housingworksbookstore)
December 2011
14 posts
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November 2011
15 posts
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Be a bike person! Bike, helmet, locks, rear rack,... →
Buy my bike and all of the accessories! I tried to be a bike person, not very hard, but I am walking/subway person.
Unlike in generations past, when (I imagine) you just kept doing what you and...
– Edith Zimmerman, Dealing With Your Own Cultural Irrelevance (at Age 28) - NYTimes.com
October 2011
8 posts
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2. Let’s put an end to New Yorker-on-New Yorker crime, crimes of...
– Jen Doll, Ten Things New Yorkers Need to Stop Doing Immediately
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September 2011
5 posts
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Tyler Coates: Some Pitches for Thought Catalog →
tylercoates:
How To Act Like A 24-Year-Old
What Five Ex-Boyfriends Wrote On My Facebook Page On My Birthday
How To Get Dumped (So You Don’t Have To Dump Him)
In Defense of Radiohead
In Defense of Alanis Morissette
In Defense of Elton John
In Defense of Pavement
In Defense of T.A.T.U.
Why Flying First-Class Is Awesome
The Five Types Of Guys Who Will Rape You
Why Joan Didion...
Only 13 percent of participants in the study said it is impossible that elves...
– Iceland Still Believes in Elves and Ghosts
I want to go to there.
August 2011
13 posts
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