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LEIGHTON MEESTER IS JOHNNY DEPP YOU GUYS!!!
… says Veronica (who, did you notice, is checking in to Tumblr a bit earlier these days. er … not that I did … and thought about it long and hard enough to realize Australia doesn’t have daylight savings! (or at least not when we do) er. anyway).
… I say: Ms. Meester really pulls this off. I’ve long wanted M.’s BFF/tailor to make me a suit. Perhaps if I...
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I don't know what delights me more
The ridiculous couple or the revelation that Brett reads the Vows section….
cajunboy:
“One of the many things Elhamm Yavari and Mat Steel having in common is almost zero body fat.”
So at lunch today I’m just getting around to reading Sunday’s NY Times and the lede for this epic hipster wedding announcement has to be the best lede written for any wedding announcement ever,...
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“As 9-year-old Piper assembles the ingredients for cake from a mix, Sarah becomes...”
– Decoding ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’: Spoiled by family love | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times
She can see Mexico from her kitchen.
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“Don’t worry about it. You should see what we say about you.”
– An unidentified foreign official, speaking with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she tried to do damage control over the release of secret diplomatic cables that described many foreign officials in blunt terms. (via officialssay) (via squashed)
Zing.
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Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Ordered Diplomats to... →
(Um who are these people who think (a second) President Clinton would = “liberal paradise”? Sometimes I really don’t get mah country. Anyway.)
This. Story. Is. Fascinating.
I hope this puts to rest the notion that we would live in a liberal paradise had Hillary Clinton become president instead of Barack Obama…not to mention the notion that we already live in a liberal paradise...
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“Your love for my mom is myspace, dad! My love for my pillow is twitter. Dinner...”
– Sharing Time!: Notes on Thanksgiving
Guess ya had to be there.
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“Everyone’s internal map of New York, after long enough, becomes redacted by...”
– Lauren Collins explaining why Chef April Bloomfield can’t walk down Tenth Avenue: it’s the site of the failure of John Dory (which I quite liked but was in Bumblefuck, Manhattan).
Restaurants aside, it’s an interesting thought. My primary romantic failure (if we can call it that;...
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“The vegetable soon became a staple of the English kitchen. Queen Elizabeth her-...”
– The Carrot Purple
A gift of a tub of butter and a carrot wreath decorated with diamonds?! Some Queens get all the luck.
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The Carrot Purple →
Clicking through to Now I Know you learn that carrots were originally purple. In point of fact I just learned that this morning (in bed, obvs) while reading an ode to root vegetables in The New Yorker. I’ve screencapped one of the more interesting passages in which Jane Kramer relates speculations about why 17th-century Dutch horticulturalists decided to make purple carrots orange. She...
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what i learned today: why is a turkey a turkey →
dihard:
Today I learned how turkey got its name, thanks to the newsletter to which I am newly subscribed, Now I Know. Now I Know was recommended to me by a w.i.l.t. reader who sends out a daily dose of something he finds interesting.
So turkey. It’s actually indigenous to the US and Mexico. The bird, considered a delicacy, was brought to Europe via merchants in the East. It wholesaled out of...
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NYT: U.S. Corporate Profits Highest in Recorded... →
kateoplis:
American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released today. That’s the highest figure recorded since the government began keeping track over 60 years ago.
soupsoup:
The rich get richer, they want their tax cut, and sorry, they’re not hiring.
And Americans keep voting for the politicians...
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak via lost & Cup of Jo.
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Game changer...
thehuntbeautiful:
Must. Have. Ban.do. Shoeclips. Oh my! They’ll take any blah pair of shoes and turn them into something absolutely party worthy and smile inspiring.
Photo via Ban.do
Sweet!
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Just got a Facebook friend request from a guy who...
I love New York.
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Watchthedailywhat (via alittlespace):
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young perform Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” on last night’s Late Night.
[lnwjf.]
I was a bit busy last week so I did indeed miss this. Made my day.
(God he’s hot.)
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