Cmonnnn do itttttt, because it’s Friday and it’s almost 6PM and on Monday morning at 10AM you’ll be delighted you made a good decision last week!

Cmonnnn do itttttt, because it’s Friday and it’s almost 6PM and on Monday morning at 10AM you’ll be delighted you made a good decision last week!

Not an endorsement of this opinion about Newsweek, but one I enjoyed nevertheless.

Writes Charles Pierce, journalist, on a guest post for Eric Alterman’s blog at The Nation:

I have been fortunate enough to spend most of my career writing for magazines. I like to think I’ve got a pretty good bead on what the various critters who edit them are going for at any one time. But, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what Parson Meacham is trying to put together at Newsweek. (Once again, as always, Dahlia Lithwick can leave the room while I discuss this.).

Is it some kind of print version of Arianna’s joint? Is it pure link-whoring of the most ungainly kind? Is Baby Jesus screwing with the Parson’s mind? Newsweek used to be the kind of quasi-hip little brother to Mr. Luce’s Time, which I believe was once written with pens dipped in Metamucil. Now, it has all the essential coherence and identity of one of those lamp-posts near Harvard Square on which the Spartacists, the Earth Firsters, the YAF, and various dyspeptic punk bands all staple their flyers.

slaughterhouse90210:

“I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.”  — Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

This blog continues to amaze.

slaughterhouse90210:

“I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

This blog continues to amaze.

from slaughterhouse90210
In which Brit brilliantly articulates our contemporary inability to articulate.

britticisms:

The Aughts: Trying to Say The Things I Can’t Say

We talk about nothing, except for when we talk about Something, in which case our conversations only graze the surface. I don’t know if this is because we are uninformed, or that the subjects are too upsetting and complicated to warrant even an attempt at a thorough conversation.

Maybe not we; perhaps just me.

I think about all of the things that took place during this decade – the multiple wars, September 11th, school shootings, economic collapse, Hurricane Katrina – and realize that although they affected our collective livelihood, I was unable to talk about them in any thorough or enriching context. I still can’t.

(Read the rest here)

from britticisms

dpdsprings:

Ugh, getting academic extensions is proving to be as challenging as I always assumed getting hair extensions might be.

Just grant them to yourself. In that scenario, one is much much easier than the other!

from dpdsprings
The pro-life propaganda is coming from inside the internet.

The pro-life propaganda is coming from inside the internet.

Yes, I also have better things to do than Tumbl about it. Now I feel dirty.

ALSO

(Unless I removed it from the tumblr “re-blog” chain, the attribution is still there, as far as I’m concerned. All one did was type two words into google. It was a fascinating result. But do we have to assault someone’s personality and attack their outlook on the world and the ways in which they’re failing themselves?! Couldn’t it just have been a friendly reminder to credit a source instead of a personal dig? As a writer, AHEM WHATEVER, I can safely say that, as I wrote in my response, when an idea/thought I write is put out there, it doesn’t really belong to me anymore, and I would be sufficiently happy that people were sharing it, even if they had casually forgotten to link back to my blog—especially if I could nevertheless track that dissemination through a handy Tumblr tool!)

"I'd expect, from a writer like yourself...that you wouldn't be the kind to strip my attribution link out of that reblog."

I understand the motivation, but do people still really send emails like this?