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So, I tore my ACL and it’s going to be hard to get around for a while. So I’m staying in a lot and I need some good TV, you guys. I’ve been watching Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Always Sunny, Up All Night, Happy Endings, Community, Portlandia, and New Girl… I’m looking for fun, light, clever things like that.

ETA: Also watching Veep and Girls (DUH, but also, thanks, great suggestion)

gordonshumway:

…”You play (or run or swing or kick) like a girl” isn’t deployed as an insult anymore. But, at least to this woman, “I play like a girl” doesn’t feel empowering either. It feels like a limitation, one I hope won’t be a screenprinted slogan for another generation.

I play, period.

We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there…

This week for NBC Sports, we talk about Title IX’s upcoming 40th anniversary and how an 8-year-old inadvertently taught me everything I need to know about its impact and importance. Click HERE for the rest.

Really great piece, Jelisa!

(via robot-heart)

gretchenalice:

Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents

This is an English accent!

(Source: wittels)

I’m reading Pynchon’s Against the Day right now… really wonderful writing so far

langer:

“…as if the the daily feeding at the trough of ‘infotainment’ (ugh, that word) has so lowered the bar of what passes for baseline intellectual cognition that the mere intention one displays by googling, idk, “[jacques derrida/walter benjamin/some other bro i read in my intro to crit class] and the effect of [something relevant to the latest episode of ‘mad men’] is the new normal of intellectual curiosity.

but intellect when donned as a twee affectation leads generally only to puerility (or a TED laminate, i guess?). oh you spent the last 5 minutes reading a wired article instead of playing farmville? mazel tov, kiddo, here, have a 20 minute panel to tell us all about the emancipatory implications of helvetica neue at a conference that establishes exclusivity not with intellectual rigor but with a $7,500 ticket price… “

Langer, the internet always wants your opinion

(via The Shape of Boys’ Names: An Update on the Age of Aidan | The Baby Name Wizard)

THIS WORKS

This paper on logic from the early modern period may have taken a turn for the worse.  I have recently found myself talking about bovine tuberculosis.

Most boring things to blog about:

• your dreams
• your cat’s personality
• your paper

But YOU GUYS, it’s my last paper other than my thesis (“other than my thesis”=hahahaha, oh, girl) and I’m dying. The length requirement is 1-30 pages, I am not joking. Also it’s due “in time for it to be marked.” So I’m aiming for 3000-4000 words and getting it finished by tomorrow. I am totally live blogging my progress, because it’s the only way to make myself keep typing words.

I’m at 1622 words and when I hit 2000 I will allow myself to go on a run in the cold, cold rain! Yes, this is what my life has come to; these are my rewards.