October 2011
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murray gold motivates my friday night studying
me: Dickens was the 19th century's Steven Moffat. Popular, serialized, shocking, funny, with a social agenda. More progressive than many writers but still woefully sexist and racist. Dickens invested the serial story form and the Christmas special. People in the U.S. pirated his work extensively, to his disgust. Both openly disparage critics and emphasize their prowess publically. WHAT IF DICKENS IS STEVEN MOFFAT AND THE DOCTOR BROUGHT HIM HERE TO WRITE THE PAST TWO SEASONS OF DOCTOR WHO?
besttumblr: Oh. My. God. Get this on the internet stat.
September 2011
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best friday morning
read martin chuzzlewit, made a preventative/”i’m not traditionally sick but need to go” doctor’s appointment, got a free flu shot with sarah, and then got free vegetables from the uw student farm.
now i’m in the coziest library on campus…procrastinating.
and then there this going on this weekend.
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“Write, let not one hold you back, let nothing stop you: not man, not the...”
– Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
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“Intellectual Fapping with Roland Barthes: best new indie band of 2011”
– besttumblr
i'm pretty sure i'll never choose to move to the...
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Unpopular Opinion time: I like Elizabeth Gaskell...
notunlikethecomet:
hernosestuckinabook:
I know Elizabeth Gaskell isn’t writing at exactly the same time but they are similar.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Pride & Prejudice but North & South has strikes and workers and conflict between classes. I find that Austen lives in her little bubble and hardly any of that is seen. Soldiers are just there for love interests. War is barely...
adventures
me: has grad school made anyone else's mouth taste metallic? like you're sucking on a cheap fork?
theory study group: *crickets*
me: ok, just me then.
angela: you're drinking too much coffee.
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TRUE STORY
i watched mrs. doubtfire at least thirty times as a kid and didn’t understand that frank and jack were gay, or that the whole point of the movie was “hahahah isn’t it hilarious that this guy is in drag and no one can tell.”
idk if my parents really knew either.
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hahah, "capitalism awareness week"
As part of Capitalism Awareness Week, you are invited to a special event here at UW-Madison. The Revolutionary Case for Capitalism by Dr. Eric Daniels Wednesday, September 28th at 7:30pm 2650 Humanities Despite capitalism’s enormous success in producing material abundance and political freedom, it faces a crisis—one that may lead to its demise. Capitalism is perishing because...
barthes prefers to be called stormageddon, dark...
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can't write about aristotelian rhetoric without...
can’t write about the state without wanting to jump out of my window
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“Then the LORD said to Moses “When pizza’s on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime”
– Exodus 14:9 (via sarablanks)
hahaha. they play the “sugar in the mornin’, sugar in the evenin’” song at my work every day, and pizza on a bagel is never far from my mind
(via tropigalia)
ultramaricon:
The only thing worse than gender designated one-person bathrooms is gender-designated one-person bathrooms with artsy, barely decipherable gender designations.
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evp barista: doesn't putz mean...the skin left over after circumcision?
lady: let's be clear: putz means the actual member.
evp barista: i'm glad, as carol burnett would say, that we spent this time together
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i would like to take this moment to say →
that my theory prof’s faculty photo is definitely an instagram photo
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And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”
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Troy Davis' execution has been delayed. Pending...
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Hello, Wisconsin! Who makes it through their MA year takes the Universe! But, bad news everyone, ‘cause guess who! Ha! Except, you lot, you’re all whizzing about, it’s really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I AM TALKING!
Now, the question for the hour is, “Who’s got the wherwithal to finish?” Answer: I do. Next question:...
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do what you can for troy davis today.
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dean spade will be speaking at MLA this year in...
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omg omg omg
are you going?
today my project assistant professor told me to meet her in a fortnight at evp (a coffee place with bottomless cups of coffee). i told her i’d probably be there anyway in two weeks because of aforementioned endless coffee. she said she’s probably be there early too working on her book for tenure and her slew of articles.
oh god possible awkward coffee not-workdate followed by actual...
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19th century travelogues by white americans rival...
oh i’m sorry to hear you’re seasick—that’s what happens when you’re on a steamer to london, though.
somewhat related: in the early days my last ill-fated romance, the boy called me whiny out of nowhere, which was surprising and embarrassing but SO TRUE
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hey tumblr
know any good sources about rhetoric and (trans)gender/sex/sexuality/etc.?
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a study of being alone
in many ways, the project before me now is to learn how to be alone; to learn how to be satisfied with the rain falling outside my window, with the casual coffee shop politeness of the person who i stretch my arms out and graze accidentally after closing another .pdf, with my cat’s tender breath on my face in the morning.
after thursday afternoon, my weekend stretches to tuesday morning,...
“Calk’s intended message: “I-LV-TOFU” The woman loves her bean curd. What...”
– PETA: “ILVTOFU” plate request misinterpreted by TN | The Tennessean | tennessean.com
oh tennessee
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mestizarate:
whenever my dog sees that i’m stirring in bed after waking up from a nap he comes next to my bed, smiles at me and then breathes directly in my face.
which is kind of gross because his breath is a little stinky.
i love him.
i realized yesterday that the second sound i hear every day after my alarm going off is the chirruping of my cat, who hops up on the bed for me to pet her
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contribution
in the south, in seminars, we say “i’m going to piggyback off of what [fellow student] said,” when you are going to sort of one-up and/or expand a comment someone else just said, which is probably just fake politeness because we all know what’s going on when someone says that.
up here, people says, “i’m going to telescope that, Neil, and say [insert smarter...
last night i went bowling with folks from my...
three of us put doctor-who themed names in for our bowling names (sonic screwdriver, bad wolf, and john smith).
ALEJO GOT ME A SONIC SCREWDRIVER FLASHLIGHT
my life is already 9000x better now
OMG TRIFLE
sometimes you are better than the original plan for the cake
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