January 2012
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untowardness asked: Apparently, the AAA ride is not available in New York. :(
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bestofhands replied to your post: Pros and cons of going to Arizona for two months to work at a Renaissance Faire and live in a campground with two of my best friends
What about doing it over summer or something like that so you don’t have to worry about the college stuff?
Possible! The appeal of going from January to March is that that’s when the Arizona Renaissance Faire happens, so...
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Pros and cons of going to Arizona for two months...
Pros:
Adventure! Travel! Foreign lands! Because I will probably not have many more chances in my life to just up and go live somewhere else for a long-ish stretch of time.
I have never been to Arizona but I’ve always been abstractly attracted to it because deserts and turquoise and peyote and the concept of a completely foreign climate and landscape.
Speaking of landscape, according to my...
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“I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really...”
– Christopher McCandless | “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer (via julie911)
Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
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alloursongswillbelullabies asked: Oh hi there. Unsure of why I was not following you before but I have corrected the error. *waves*
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Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
nickpatrick:
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
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Whoa. Neat.
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“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it...”
– Rudyard Kipling, “if”. (via nedhepburn)
“As the teen [mugger] began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a...”
– A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
This story is kind of amazing.
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That moment when the dryer beeps and it sounds...
…and you SNAP TO ATTENTION before realizing that you are:
Not on duty
Not wearing your uniform
Not even close to your squad house
Rather drunk
…that’s a special moment.
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That moment when your friends have trouble saying...
…and when you gently correct their pronunciation, they go, “Oh right, you know what that means! Tell us!”
…and you do, and they’re all like, “Wow.”
…that’s a special moment.
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Winter makes me extra introverted yet still longing for human contact, particularly via snail mail, so if you’re into that kind of thing, we should be pen pals. Send your snail mail address to treehouseboat [at] gmail [dot] com (or just ask me for mine!) and I will inundate you with postal letters which you will love, trust me.
This video reiterates all that, and more.
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“Huntsman’s biggest problem is that he’s not a complete gaping asshole, whereas...”
– This piece for VICE about GOP candidate Jon Hunstman is really well written (so go and read the full fucking thing and get smaht!), but none more than this impeccable sentence. (via nedhepburn)
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via cultureofresistance)
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HEY BOSTON
YOUR STREETS ARE ODDLY ARRANGED AND NOT WELL LABELED
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owlnothuman:
I have pretended to like things that I actually despise for so long that I even have myself fooled.
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