May 2012
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those...
– John Milton (via galadarling.com)
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Finally going to queue up some things I’ve been meaning to blog for, oh i dunno, months. Here it comes…
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...
– Maurice Sendak (via tyleroakley)
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April 2012
10 posts
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When I walk into class and someone is sitting in...
onthebanksoftheredcedar:
This blog — and specifically, this gif — are my entire life.
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For me, and I suspect many other women as well, the pressure to strip a personal...
– “My Pregnancy Rebellion” aka real talk
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oh girl. i’m eating chips at my desk as we speak. not a fuck is given.
– a friend on her last semester of college. BEEN THERE.
March 2012
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"A Short Lesson in Perspective" →
In this blog post about creatives and their ailing industries, Redding writes about whether or not the work is worthwhile in the end. He comes from an advertising perspective, but this was the bit that killed me…
What I have witnessed happening in the last twenty years is the aesthetic equivalent of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The wholesale industrialization and...
If you just sent me a message...
I tried to reply but I think I made your message disappear. You said you were from Saginaw, now living in Big Rapids for school. Definitely message me again! I don’t know how I screwed this up.
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#saginaw
Turns out #saginaw on Tumblr is mostly a bunch of pictures of delicious looking Mexican food and graffiti, local band promos and people calling each other out for being ghetto. Sounds like home is just as I left it. Let’s go back this weekend!
Also, this exists. http://fuckyeahsaginaw.tumblr.com/
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funkdvoid:
GPOY all week long.
February 2012
11 posts
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It’s OK to have a chip on your shoulder, as long as you allow it to be a...
– my editor, Dave Clark, in a conversation about proving people wrong
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Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...
– Amy Poehler
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My mom's stories
Last night, my mom started telling me stories about her job. She works at a florist/greenhouse/gift shop, which apparently draws some pretty strange Saginaw characters to her counter. “Teacup Boy” is one of them.
About once a month, a man comes to the shop looking for their latest teacup inventory. “And every fricken time, he explains the whole thing to us, how he collects...
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Lauren and I are shooting a Valentine’s Day arcade wedding on Tuesday and I AM PUMPED. Details to come!
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January 2012
13 posts
Mr. Bryan confirmed that he had posted on his Tweeter website account that he...
– A Department of Homeland Security memo on a British couple that was detained overnight upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport. Bryan explained that “destroy” is British slang for partying, and digging up Marilyn Monroe is a reference to the TV show Family Guy. (via officialssay)
Vague notes-to-self on my desk
One pot/anhydrous ammonia method (but modified to use ammonia nitrate fertilizer)
David Maguire CSC case RIP
Bryan’s contact solution