February 2012
35 posts
Writing friends...
…I submitted a blind submission to a Website last Wednesday, but haven’t heard back. What is the appropriate time to wait to follow up? Is silence the standard or should I assume the answer is no?
It’s not a time-sensitive piece, but curious nonetheless. My email is lia dot lobello at the good ole gmails if someone may be able to let me know the protocol. I’ve been out of...
Hey, Rihanna, you should date me instead.
This is very amazing.
stevecronincomedy:
Hey Rihanna,
My name’s Steve Cronin, I’m a comic living in New York City. I’m not sure if this is true, but I’ve read online that you might be getting back together with Chris Brown. This is going to sound crazy, but… and I’m using bold font so you know it’s important… you should date me instead of getting back together with Chris Brown. But before we...
“Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives — the gals put it...”
– Holy shit Republican party are you kidding me?!?! (via cajunboy)
I really wish Andrea Mitchell HADN’T said “Let’s change the subject.” No, let’s stay on this subject. Explain yourself. Justify this. Tell me why you are so anti-woman so we can put you where you belong...
Valentine's Day Romance
Me: Do you want to do anything tomorrow?
GC: Do you?
Me: I can make you dinner.
GC: I can make YOU dinner!
Me: We can make EACH OTHER dinner! Then we each eat two different dinners.
GC: That the other has made.
(short pause)
GC: No, we can have dinner if you want but then I have to finish this script I owe to Andrea.
Me: Good, I can finish my fingerless gloves knitting project.
(We stare at each other in the face for 5 or 10 seconds.)
End Scene
RIP Whitney →
I have hesitated in posting anything Whitney because I wanted to pick my favorite song of hers. There are so many! I spent years of my life dancing in my room to her songs and singing them with my sister. They are, in many ways and with others, the soundtrack to my adolescence. After much contemplation, here is my pick. Not because it’s the one I danced to the most, but the one I think...
“You do not have to be spoken for, if you speak.”
– Ah! This quote speaks to me!
As the breadwinner of my house, this quote speaks to me.
I know where my charity donations are going in 2012. It won’t be much, but if there are enough of us…
brianvan:
Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization...
