The Big Block of Cheese

I Think I Need to Say Goodbye for a (Short) While

I didn’t know I was going to be writing any of this.  I was sitting on a blank text post, waiting to write something, when I found myself typing the title.  And it feels right.

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Body Slam

Someone used this expression to talk about Blitzer not letting Gingrich get away with his attacking the media lines.  My dad used to body slam me.  I didn’t start with that sentence because it sounds like I was abused as a child in a really bizarre way.  No, he’d pick me up, spin me around, and then throw me down on the bed.  It was like I was doing belly flop, but instead of a painful red stomach I got to bounce up and down on that mattress.  God those were fun.

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prettybutt:

imaginary triangle

I adore this.

WE ARE A REAL SCHOOL →

In Great News from Last Night: Whitney and Chelsea both got 1.4s.

Happy Hour indeed bitches.  Happy hour indeed.  Drinks on the Human Beings, eh?

(Source: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com)

"Australian transport minister Anthony “Albo” Albanese is finding that out the hard way after giving a recent speech directed at his political opponent, Tony Abbott, in which Albanese struck out at his rival using nearly the exact same monologue that Sorkin originally wrote for a scene in which Michael Douglas’ fictional president Andrew Shepherd pauses briefly from trying to bag Annette Bening to make Richard Dreyfuss look like a huge dick."

— This is a surprisingly apt summary of a movie I used to adore and now go “eh” about.

(Source: The A.V. Club)

Day 17 - And We’re Back

Banneker Day 9

Good lord, I’ve only been there 9 days?  Wild.  Well, as you might have surmised, I’m back to interning, and it only took me a week!  I was selfish, I didn’t go my first week back.  I always amaze the smug, self assured version of myself when things don’t go exactly according to plan and I end up having so much more work to do than I’d planned.

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In Which Laura Talks About the Nominees

I’ve got things that need to be said.  Concise things.

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Lost in Translation is the kind of movie that, whenever I think about it, I simultaneously want to run it on loop for the rest of my life and never watch it again.  That’s the trouble with something perfect, I suppose.

Whenever someone’s being a real asshole, I find it calming to pretend they are sitcom characters. Kramer was fucking nuts but you always still wanted him around.

What Home Should Be (Materially)

I moved four times last year.  I’ll move three or four times this year.  Living in so many relatively similar places allowed me to pick out what really matters in life.  Materially, anyway.  So without further ado, a list of things I’ll likely require before I can go from calling a place “wherever the hell I live” to “home.”

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Dear Mrs. My Mom,

School is great.  I am learning politics a lot.  Please send protein bars.

See you at break!

Laura

Unoriginal

“This movie leans heavy on the back-of-the-head follow-shot, which has become an indie cliché.” - Noel Murray, A.V. Club review of Sundace, Day 2

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"You know, I’m gonna go. I don’t want to miss the news."

— Starburns

I’m Going to Like Creative Writing

I’ve never read much Hemingway.  For some reason he was shunted out of high school english books, and Hemingway is so intimidating to me that I wasn’t about to start reading his stuff until I was required to.

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