“It’s more fun talking politics with people who agree with you,” said Lucy Vigmostad, who was celebrating her 18th birthday by being first in line in Grand Rapids.”
— Sarah Palin’s supporters embrace the full and diverse range of political opinions in America
November 22, 2009, 3:15pm
math prof at cal teaching on the outside of evans hall after fire alarm was pulled by fee hike protester (via the daily clog’s twitter)
Strange how things are almost unrecognizable one year, one budget shortfall, and one ridiculous rainstorm later.
November 21, 2009, 2:05pm
Connie’s immediate response to this picture:
“HE LOOKS LIKE A CHICKEN NUGGET. WEHRE ARE HIS EARS?!?!?”
Where, indeed?
November 20, 2009, 7:16pm
“I cannot wrap my brain around the ubiquity of Crocs. Kelly Ripa [on “Live with Regis and Kelly”] said, ‘I insist that you put them on because they’re so comfortable.’ And I put them on. I am looking down at my feet, and I feel like I have hooves! They’re horrible. If we all succumbed to the comfort trap, to dress as if we never got out of bed — then we should never get out of bed.”
— Tim Gunn, speaking truth to power about the sinister consequences of wearing Crocs
November 17, 2009, 8:18pm
No need to thank me, I just need people to listen to this so that I can actually hold conversations with you. Yes, I am saying that if you do not listen to this album, I will not engage you in any form of communication whatsoever.
November 15, 2009, 11:46pm
I would like to petition all the women in the world to start wearing more fucking DRKSHDW.
November 15, 2009, 2:02am
Honestly, the only things that I’ve found worth buying from this season come from DRKSHDW. For spring, too. Maybe it’s just because I’m in a suit all day that I only care about denim and cotton nowadays.
November 13, 2009, 7:12pm
“Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
”
— Francis Pharcellus Church, awesomely named dude and lead editorial writer of the New York Sun, who answered Virginia’s famous question
November 12, 2009, 8:03am
The fact that these positions have names surprises me far more than the statistics accompanying them.
November 09, 2009, 2:01pm
Le Jockey ou Le Galop d’essai, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899
November 09, 2009, 8:00am
I can’t believe how hard I am sipping on the Lady GaGa Kool-Aid, man, but I fucking love these.
November 08, 2009, 10:32pm
“Korean popstar + kitten + Korean VOGUE GIRL photoshoot” is apparently a winning formula.
November 04, 2009, 8:04am
