if life be a war: Archive

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From my journal, 31 December 2009: I’m not over New Year’s Resolutions, & so here they are: Spend less time online, more time reading, writing, crafting, socializing. Learn to knit socks. Normally I go for three, but I’m going to set the bar a little low. I’ll try to write every day, something I think I just about succeeded in doing this year. I’ll shoot...

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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BRB adjusting my New Year's plans

(Super Hans has left his own party because it has devolved into the heart of darkness. Jez goes inside, while Hans, Mark, and some lady called Yoko wait in the hallway.) Super Hans: …I’m going to write this place off. Send someone in there tomorrow with some disinfectant and a flamethrower. I’ve got me sleeping bag; I don’t want to know. (Jez emerges) Mark: How was it?...

Dec 30th

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I had been avoiding the Antoine Dodson footage, but then everyone was up and arms about there being a song and Andrew Garfield singing it. So I did some research today, kids, and: Antoine Dodson is my Person of the Day. Autotune is over. Let’s move on. Andrew Garfield, I had a thing for you yesterday but I was leaning away from the computer screen during that whole segment. You...

Dec 30th

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Channel 4 orders two more series of Peep Show →

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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I'm three minutes into The Imaginarium of Doctor...

& I’ve already seen Andrew Garfield and the guy who played the gorillaman in Misfits. It’s going to be an odd evening.

Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Open Book podcast →

I love this BBC4 podcast. Each installment introduces me to new books and revisits works I love. The one I’m listening to right now features excerpts read aloud by Russell Tovey, which is always a bonus.

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 26th

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Free eBooks on Google Books →

Or, “Why I will get f-all done in my office ever again.”

Dec 23rd

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half day at work, tomorrow!

flickflickflicker: which… i don’t know why i’m excited. all i did today was send passive aggressive emails, eat ferrero rocher and refresh tumblr. not exactly taxing stuff. On the other side of the world, someone else was living the same life as me yesterday. Or tomorrow. I apparently don’t understand how time zones work.

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

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I do not understand how people who are supposedly...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

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Alex James is the Winona Ryder of music.

He has not aged since the 90s. I offer you a comparison: The members of Blur are the worst nightmare of anti-drug PSA writers. They were in a drug-fueled haze for like a decade and came out of it functioning, successful members of society. What a bunch of BAMFs. (photos from fuckyeahblur)

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Blur to record new album for 2011 →

My excitement knows no bounds. WOO-HOO!

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Watch

whishawben: Yaaaaaaayyy!! THANK YOU! benwhishawmybrothertom: Love Hate ;) Enjoy Finally! I was just thinking about this the other day. Also, is there a hyphen in “cock swizzle”?

Dec 21st

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So I have been wanting snow for awhile now...

BUT I WAS JUST STRANDED FOR THREE HOURS. FUCK THIS SHIT. I left work a little early as it was just starting to snow, but within five minutes I was stuck on a hill with about 100 other people on a one-way street. Everyone was spinning tires and trying to push each other through intersections. Danger, we had it. I decided to park illegally and go to my friend’s house. As I walked there,...

Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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a thing of beauty: Misfits Ep 7...made no fucking... →

zebablah: It was like an alternate reality or some shit. Suddenly Nathan is ready to be a father and (common law) husband? Suddenly the entire gang is completely willing to give up their powers without any real thought about the consequences? And now many things just ~happen~ without explanation. It’s three… I was just thinking about the video Alisha watched and wondering how that could...

Dec 20th

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Why does my office computer have Google Earth on...

Inappropriate. NEVER GETTING WORK DONE EVER AGAIN.

Dec 20th

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This Bonus Season on Wall Street, Many See Zeros →

This is an opportune time to point out that the November 2010 unemployment rate is 9.3%. These two phenomena may be unrelated, but “throw[ing] $20,000 or $25,000 at each of the Zeros so they’re not discouraged” is, quite literally a bit rich. And then there’s this little gem: “No matter what we pay people, it is never enough and they always find something to complain...

Dec 20th

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the eleventh gif in your gif folder is the...

DEAD. SHAKING AND CRYING RN. (via marxisforbros)

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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airship-redemption replied to your post:This is a rhetorical question, David. Do you… You’re just jelly. Of David Mitchell being such a boss? Yes.

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

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This is a rhetorical question, David. Do you realise that by not having lots of casual sex with groupies you are criminally wasting the greatest privilege of appearing on mainstream TV? Chris Morris, Manchester Now tell me: a rhetorical question, that’s a question that doesn’t require an answer, right? [Silence]. Noted. Piece of rhetoric noted.

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

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“White readers often believe they are colour-blind. That is, until they read...”

– Zadie Smith (via estlin)

Dec 19th

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Dec 18th

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Dec 17th

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Life skills.

marxisforbros: I have the ability to watch a TV show/Film and like two of the characters without wanting them to be in a relationship. I don’t automatically “ship” them. If Tumblr is anything to go by, this puts me on a higher cognitive level than 99% of the people on earth. The original tags on this post are amazing. Also, I am concerned by the existence of the phrase...

Dec 16th

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