February 2012
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“There may come a day, as I say, when you have cause to sing this song. I hope...”
– John Darnielle introducing No Children at The Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA, 9.26.06. (via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
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joaniepepperoni:
Do you guys ever think about how weird it is that we wake up every morning and live every day counting on the fact that no one is going to murder us?
Here is a list of people who could murder us if they felt like it:
bus driver
taxi driver
teacher
professor
receptionist at where ever we are
delivery person
person riding by you on their bike
person walking past you on...
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“My friend Mark Givens and I had an emoticon we amused ourselves with years ago....”
– John Darnielle (via insomnius)
hahaha
screw you guys for nobody liking that post, i’m laughing my head off still
Ahhah I’ve been doing stuff on the phone for a half hour with a person from windstream and when I finally got speed test results & told her she couldn’t stop laughing and then more waiting and now she’s making small talk w/me about the weather and dreariness of February and groundhog day
no no no my internet is doing that thing again where it’s stuck at like 0.1 Mb/s download speed god help me i have to do so much research for classes for tomorrow
insomnius:
megachiropteran:
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Watchplay this on a loop at my funeral please
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hermionejg:
When I leave university in a few months I’m not going to miss essay deadlines or the horrendous exam anxiety or the asthma attacks in the run ups to results day. But I am going to miss the seminar environment, I’m going to miss being able to read great books and talk about them and think carefully about the approaches themselves and be a part of something much bigger — namely the...
nofloorhasaface:
I had a dream that half the days of the week I was living on campus at a college. I had a room with five other girls and the beds were all like shelves on the wall mostly but mine (shared with another girl) was on the ground butted up against a huge picture window that we left open at night; it looked out over mega-green, grassy, endless rolling fields. We were woken up early...
Watchjkrasweb:
John Krasinski talking about his first date with Emily Blunt, how he got ‘burned by Meryl Streep’… and the marionette’s back! (Conan O’Brien, 2nd Feb 2012)
At the moment John K is taking first John place in my heart. And it is mighty stiff competition!
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foolishoptimism:
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the...
