The Great LOLCatsby
Check out something new I’m trying out… a mashup of cats and The Great Gatsby and internet memes:
Brianna Goldberg Says Things Occasionally
Writer, Producer, Banjo Player, Pickle Enthusiast
(via staff)
This is a noise that happens in my apartment. It is not coming from my neighbours above or to the side, and I have no neighbours below me— just the laundry room/mysterious storage areas of my apartment building.
This noise happens at random times and random days. Sometimes I won’t hear it for several days in a row. Sometimes, like the past two days, I hear it almost every hour of the night.
It doesn’t happen in the daytime, only at night. It happens most often at 3am and 4am, but also sometimes at 9, 10, or 11pm.
Sometimes when I hear it, I run through the apartment building, trying to find where it’s coming from. There is never anyone around in the areas where the noise seems to be coming from. There are never any monsters around (that I can see).
For the love of all things mysterious sounding: Do you know what this sound is? And can you tell me how to make it GO THE FRANK AWAY?
Actual things I’ve said today while listening to streaming radio of Canadian singer-songwriters
Go away, Barenaked Ladies.
Go away, Bruce Cockburn.
Go away, Gordon Lightfoot.
Go away, Blue Rodeo.
Too many hobbies and too little feee time can cause instrumental anxiety.
(via pizzashares)
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on the shapes of stories, now in an infographic.
In Defense of the Happy Girl
Sasha Weiss considers why people find Anne Hathaway, Hollywood’s “happy girl,” to be so annoying: “Little girls learn very quickly to modulate their excitement if they want to be acceptable… Anne has somehow managed to retain that bright look, and many people would like to wipe it off her face.”
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Photograph by Jason Merritt/Getty.
