You said it. Not me.

I read a lot. Some of it's hilarious. Most of it's ridiculous.

[academicssay]

I have no special talents. I am only unreasonably persistent.

[kimlacey]

Also, Amazon Mom can go fuck themselves for continuing to send me coupons and “reminders” about my due date well after I’ve opted out of the program. Thanks for the big fuck you miscarriage reminder.

[kimlacey]

Finding out two of your friends (in separate relationships) are getting divorced is rough news.

[kimlacey]

A visit from the goom squad

There's not much to say except I didn't realize how much I needed this book at this exact moment in my life.

[kimlacey]

Egan, Goon Squad

[rachelfershleiser]

“As Bowden took these puns from screen to plate, he documented his progress with a Tumblr blog, The Bob’s Burger Experiment, that soon amassed tens of thousands of followers and even caught the attention of the show’s creator, Loren Bouchard. From there, fan and creator became collaborators, and Bowden’s recipes will now appear in the show’s official cookbook, The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book: Real Recipes for Joke Burgers, coming out in March.”

(via Bob’s Burgers cookbook contributor Cole Bowden talks about his blog and recipes.)

[nprbooks]

I am haunting the mail drop hoping my copy of this arrives soon!  And I really want a Human Polenta-Pede Burger now …

– Petra

[npr]

Idk Petra, I was kinda always most interested in this:

-Vesta

[moan-s]

[nevver]

SECTIONS IN THE BOOKSTORE

[nevver]

Books You Haven’t Read

Books You Needn’t Read

Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading

Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written

Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered

Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First

Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered

Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback

Books You Can Borrow from Somebody

Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too

Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages

Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success

Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment

Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case

Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer

Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves

Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified

Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read

Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

Italo Calvino

[bled]

[kimlacey]

Lonely and falling apart.

[hypnictwitch]

[custer-mp3]

idk what’s going on here but it looks like Mark Ryden’s doing and I LIKE IT

[love-personal]

[hyperallergic]

One of the minor ironies of the postwar avant-garde is that an artist so resolutely against personal expression and the myth of the inspired genius should become the focus of a cult of personality. But that’s exactly what happened with John Cage before, and especially after, his death.

Taking His Chance: John Cage’s Diary

[tamper]

[dazeddigital]

Ai Weiwei finds hidden listening devices in his studio

The artist shared the sinister discoveries on Instagram this weekend.

[mous-bones]

I am really, extremely, amazingly excited to announce the release of my new Hello Pronoun stickers! I posted about these on twitter last night, but I can finally talk about them at length a bit more here. 

The stickers read “Hello, address me as:_________, Please use: ________”, allowing you to declare your name of choice and preferred pronouns immediately upon meeting people. These have been my pet project over the last week or two and a lot of thought has gone into their production. The colours were specifically chosen to be nongendered - no pink or baby blue (The Ze/Hir/Hirs looks a bit blue in these pictures but is really solidly teal), They rather specifically do not read “my name is” to head off people being dicks about “Is that REALLY your name?” because frankly it doesn’t matter if it is or not because it’s what you fucking go by. (Besides which, the concept of a true name is pretty bullshit unless you’re looking into demon summoning) I feel like there are a lot of great potential uses for these! They’d be great at school LGBT-club meetings or other large gatherings where you’re likely to meet a lot of new people, like conventions. They can be used right after coming out to help people who’ve known you for a while adapt to your new name/pronouns. If you’re genderfluid, you can use them to declare your preference on any particular day (and I’m looking into some more permanent buttons that’d make this much easier). They can even be used to remind that one old friend who can never get your damn pronouns right. Overall, it seems like these’ll be a wonderfully useful thing for folks under the trans* umbrella to have around and I’m really happy to have made them.

Obviously I couldn’t cover every pronoun variation/combination, particularly on the first run of stickers, but I tried to cover my bases on common nongendered/third gender pronouns. I’m completely open to taking requests for additional stickers, though, and if I get enough requests for a particular pronoun set I’ll be glad to maker a sticker for it.

I’ll have these with me at SacAnime this weekend for 1/$0.50, 5/$2, and 10/$3. They’re currently available on my Storenvy at 5/$2 - I’ll be adding 10/$3 after the con, at the moment I just want to make sure I don’t run out as I’ve only printed up 160 of each design.

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@thatsanawkwardthingtosay

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