December 2010
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Paterson Calls For Investigation Into Sanitation... →
Oh cold snap!
“They were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor pay for the layoffs, the reductions in rank for the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank-and-file.”
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She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris.
– Gustave Flaubert (via hotpanic) (via bricorama, juliac393)
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Thank you, shovelers. Yours truly, a sap.
Ignoring my parent company’s emails permitting me to stay home, I came into work yesterday not to prove myself as a dedicated employee, but to challenge myself Snowpocalypse style – much like that time Mr. Edwards trekked through a deadly blizzard to bring the Ingalls family gifts on Christmas Day. Knowing full well that the MTA service would be iffy at best, I walked outside and began my icy and...
His eyes were very blue and very beautiful half hid away in the leathery seams...
– Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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In all those old crises of the twenties, the thirties, the war - each one of...
– Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
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"Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow."...
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was written with the intention of being dreary; that’s what makes it the best Christmas song. Though I understand it’s situated in a genre of music focused on jingling, jangling and jolliness, trying to brighten the mood with a bunch of hooey about shining stars and boughs doesn’t change the fact that it’s a song about...
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Left Behind 3 is an actual video game. This is its... →
I’m either dying with laughter, or everyone else is being raptured.
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Rebecca and Lauren have a piano. It was free and is currently out of tune, but at least I can play this.
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