I’m not running
I’m not hiding
I’m not reaching
I’m just resting in the arms of the great wide open
Gonna pull my soul in
And I’m almost home
You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.
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| — | Taylor Swift on some peoples views on her songwriting. (x) |
Where I live, there are a lot of apathetic people, people who don’t care at all about what they do or how they do it. They let the world wash over them and barely notice anyone else is even there. Leslie Knope is not one of these people. She cares about everything and everyone in our town. I don’t know how she does it. People come to her with the pettiest, stupidest problems, and she cares - like really, actually cares - what happens to them. And if you’re lucky enough to be her friend, your life gets better every day. She spends every waking moment thinking of new ways to make her friends happy. There is something wonderful about seeing someone who has found her true purpose on earth. For some people, I guess that’s being an astronaut or a hotdog eating champion. For Leslie, her true purpose on earth, her true meaning, is making people’s lives better. That’s what I love about her, and that’s why she deserves this award. Sincerely, Satan.
"If you’re lucky enough to be her friend, your life gets better every day" - the same can be said about Smart Girls Amy P & Meredith
Ingredients
4-5 tart apples (I like Granny Smiths), peeled and sliced
1 lemon
1 cup flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
1/4 cup each almonds and walnuts, chopped
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Natalia Vodianova and Benjamin Millepied take over the Paris Opera House for our November issue!
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
All those little lines are jokes! ALL THE JOKES! (at least the ones I noticed)
Last year Jeremy Bowers, Danny DeBelius, Christopher Groskopf, Aly Hurt and I made a very silly interactive graphic exhaustively tabulating the running jokes in Arrested Development, along with their connections:
http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/
And wouldn’t you know it, someone just put in a book — giving me an excuse to put in on tumblr. So if you’d like to see how many times GOB says “I’ve made a huge mistake,” check out the graphic.
That’s why you always leave a note.
There’s something about sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself. Especially if you’ve just been totally made a fool of by the only person you’ll ever love. And you have a geometry midterm on monday, which you still haven’t studied for cause you can’t because Brian Krakow has your textbook and you’re too embarrassed to even deal with it. And your little sister’s completely finished with her homework which is just, like, so simple and mindless a child could do it. And that creepy 60 Minutes watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away.
— Anne Lamott, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
This will always be relevant.
A Golden Girls Podcast
exists, and it’s called Out on the Lanai. I wish I had the ability to do a podcast, but I can’t find anyone who would do it with me. Sigh. Guess I am just a Frieda Claxton.
