“I have to say, 14 years later, it’s still a pretty useful list of phony-baloney vocabulary that editors are well-advised to excise from stories.”
Oh god, I’m a repeat offender on a few of these…
Can’t say why, but I can’t get this song out of my head. I wonder how many listens I can rack up while web-siting all night…?
Fool-Proof Ways to Deal with Massive Stress:
Eat creamcheese frosting and listen to Jason Anderson.
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Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.
Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.
Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.
Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.
Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.
Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
"- Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via ceedling)
Yeep
(via this-is-leigh)
CuseNation
A piece I wrote about watching the SU game this weekend that fails to mention sneaking into the Sheraton pool, setting off fireworks, or drunk emailing my family (sorry, guys)
It’s a long story but I made a comment about this being a good picture for a new indie band called GlitterKittenz, and made the thing — only to forget about it completely, realize someone else was on top of their shit and posted a funny one already. Oh well, this one goes to the blog.
Jillian, this one’s for you. And your band. Of course.
MY HAPPINESS LEVELS ARE OFF THE CHARTS!!!!
Palm of Your Hand — Ingrid Michaelson. When staying up all night to write an article, you need a good sound track. I’m hopelessly in love with this song at the moment <3
"I think journalism schools should have workshops for young female reporters on managing old men who have no game and think, because you’re listening to them intently and probing what they think and feel, that you’re romantically interested, rather than conducting an interview,” says Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor at The Atlantic. “Every female reporter I know has had this issue at one time or another."
Why yes, yes I am currently obsessed with this song.
