2008

LOVE LOVE LOVE the hot pink cabs in Bangkok! These dream...

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“…because love is a continual interrogation. I don’t...”
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“This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and...”
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the single most disturbing article of 2008

“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of...”
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Caitlin: kat williams does a white people joke
Caitlin: about how white people will say "let's get wasted" or "let's get drunk"
Caitlin: like we plan it
Caitlin: which is so true!
Me: hahaha
Me: and then we say "im so wasted!"
Me: like mission: accomplished!
Caitlin: also he says "you gotta watch out for your white friends because they drink EVERYTHING"
Me: i'd say we drink everything besides wine.
Me: cos we have a fear of it being fancy and off-limits
Me: unless it is twist-off. then it's fair game
Caitlin: he was saying like "oh a brother, if he drinks hennessy, he only drinks hennessy"
Caitlin: "your white friends will feed you four different drinks in one outing"
Caitlin: like as in white people drink all types of boozes, not, they will drink all yr boozes
Me: ahhh, i see
Caitlin: this is what happens when i try to repeat black comedians
Caitlin: hahaha
Me: LOST IN TRANSLATION

“I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions,...”
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Snow Leopard Is Next

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Matt Taibbi, philosopher-dreamboat

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musing du jour

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Bill Clinton: STFU Already

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Last Night's Dinner

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“[Fiction is] one of the few experiences where loneliness can...”
— David Foster Wallace

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The Nation hates 'racist' Amy Winehouse

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Gotta love when CNN comes up with Onion-esque headlines!

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Caitlin: i said it in may: this will be a 6month cringe fest
Caitlin: where we just have to swallow it while obama embarrasses himself pandering to the imaginary center
Caitlin: who are these fucking people who don't know who to vote for?!
Me: i dont know, but hopefully some of them are superficial and pick candidates like we pick wines: by the prettiness of the label

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“People are always asking me in interviews, ‘What do...”
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Hamlet: Facebook Newsfeed Version

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Caitlin: if Germans mess up a form or some paperwork
Caitlin: then you never have to answer for it!!!
Caitlin: you will just simply have to present their incorrect papers to them and they will commit Seppuku in shame

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