February 2010
January 2010
Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street.
“The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, and Oreo) during the course of three years. The film is brutal in the depiction of drug-related crimes and diseases: prostitution, AIDS, and lethal overdoses. The director also put a lot of emphasis on the moral sides pertaining to the junkie lifestyle: from the question...
jerriann thanks for the follow.♥
(via bellalavita)
Right back at you, lady!
You sold me on the pictures of cats wearing paper hearts.
“Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch!”
– embarassing girly show
“In the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go...”
– BARACK OBAMA.
“The aspiring writer must not merely be persistent, but relentless. If you are...”
– Jacob M. Appel
For John and Sonny, who are running a marathon in...
“Much like Scientology, Mad Men, and tumblr, marathons are just a way well-to-do white folk can replace one addiction with another that’s less “urban”. Here’s why being friends with a marathon-runner is EXACTLY like being friends with smack addicted Balitmore junkie.”
Read the whole thing here.
“I got halfway through Sarah’s book and quit. Quitting is not like me, but I...”
– Helen Philpot on Sarah Palin and Going Rogue
Train Wreck « Margaret and Helen
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger
that little dream of yours
livethelife:
is begging for your precious time and effort. if you work hard enough and long enough, you will make it happen. just keep at it.
A bit of motivation for everyone before Friday.
It’s always hard to stay focused on Friday.
These are a few of my favorite things ...
-the cool temperature outside
-hot chocolate
-homemade fruit salad from John
-sweet emails people sent me today
Study: Humans Were Born to Run Barefoot →
savingpaper:
Oh great. Now my “Were Our Human Ancestors Attempting to Create a Pair of Sneakers 1.5 Million Years Ago?” study is completely moot.
My roommate is all over this study and just bought the new Nike Free shoes because of it.
PowerPoint alone misses the point
“It is only the first month of the new semester, and we are already hearing students complain about going to class. It seems a bit soon for the excitement of learning to wear off.
We think the lack of spontaneity in the classroom could be aiding in the apathy prevalent among UCF students.
We are not downplaying the energy or effort professors put into devising their lesson plans.
We...
“But it was the females in the crowd who read more into Apple’s menstrual...”
– -Fast Company
I immediately cringed upon hearing the name iPad.
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them...”
– Bertolt Brecht.
Ah, this is the life.
I am pretty sure the only positive comment on my Shack-a-Thon stance is from my boyfriend.
The fact that people disagree with what I wrote does not anger me. What infuriates me is that it appears the people leaving comments have never read an opinion page in a newspaper. If they REALLY want to be offended they should read the NYT or watch cable news.
But wait, isn’t being hated by the...
Leaving cheapens Shack-a-Thon
Habitat for Humanity at UCF attempted to achieve a few things with its Shack-a-Thon event Friday. One important objective was to enlighten students on how unfortunate life can be when living in a shack.
The organization attempted to do so by having students spend the night in their handmade shelters.
The impact was cheapened, though, when many students left in the middle of the night.
The...
Supreme Court makes blunder
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court came to a 5-4 decision to ease restrictions on the amount of money corporations can donate to candidate elections.
Like most Americans, we were confused and disappointed with its decision.
We were confused as to how five justices came to this decision, because to do so they had to overrule two important precedents.
Defenders of the decision argued that the...
How to stay interested in blogging
Shift your focus If none of the above suggestions work for you, then it’s time to shift the focus of your blog. Company mandated bloggers can still write about the same topic, but tackle a different subject. For example, travel bloggers can shift their focus from covering airline prices to covering travel destinations for families. A political blogger, instead of covering the minutiae of the...
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
Jim Rohn
Must combat holiday weight* gain ...
with …
-bike ride with Stef this morning
-an evening run
-(hopefully) dancing with the boys downtown tonight.
*It isn’t a lot of weight but why not lose it if you can?
“This part of the proposal may as well be called the Lloyd Blankfein Act of 2009,...”
– Gross, on Obama’s proposed banking rules (via newsweek)
