January 2010
132 posts
Where to buy 167 cupcake flavors →
Walking in Holden's Footsteps →
(via audreyhepburncomplex)
“[My mom] prays for me every single night. She says that Baby Jesus blessed me...”
– Ryan McGinley, Oyster Magazine, 2003 (via fuckyeahryanmcginley)
“…you’re going to start getting closer and closer - that is, if you want to, and...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Daily Dose of Nonsensicality →
bbook:
blue-eyed:
youmightfindyourself:
White people love Wes Anderson movies more than they love their kids. If a white guy takes a white girl to a Wes Anderson movie on their first date, and neither of them have seen it, they will immediately commence a relationship that is reflected in songs by Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes.
Wes Anderson movies have this way of being sort of funny and a...
“I’m not a girl, nor will I ever be. But if I were a girl, I’d like to be Sofia....”
– Marc Jacobs on Sofia Coppola (via sofiacoppola) (via milkgirl) (via nnnoir) (via merricat)
The Case Against Settling by Julia Baird →
sexismandthecity:
Don’t blame feminism for bad dates.
bricoler:
Really interesting article against settling.
Hopes/predictions for the 2010s
unicornology:
buyhercandy:
saimagery:
rachelhills:
Image: What Will You Fill Your Heart With in 2010?, by Thomas Ott
Or 2010 itself, at least.
Fool: Bloated, hyperbolic professional bios/marketing copy. Cool: Letting your accomplishments speak for themselves.
Fool: Pretending that 600 Facebook friends means 600 actual friends. Cool: Spending more time with the people you really care...
Freddie: We'd be good together don't you think?
Effy Stonem: No.
Freddie: Why not?
Effy Stonem: Because I'll break your heart.
Freddie: Maybe I'll break yours.
Effy Stonem: Nobody breaks my heart.
It gets really bothersome when people who have no absolute idea about you feel need to suggest and presume to tell you the way you are/should be. Even more so, the amount of mindless fucks who are true believers in the art of being generic and expect nothing less of the world or its people. By the way, you mediocre fucks, it must be so incredibly fun to be living proof of the downgrade in...
Seymour--an Introduction by J.D. Salinger
merricat:
declasse:
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe...