The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallery

Nerdy roving museo with an unfinished manuscript and a heart of muscle.

[nerd-gasms]

Once again accidentally logged into this inactive account because I forgot which email addresses are associated with which accounts. Oops! Looks like the last time was 3 years ago.

Anyway, hi. I’m weirdly pleased that this URL hasn’t been deleted.

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This account is still dead, but I logged out of Tumblr at work and it logged me out at home as well, so now I'm struggling to remember what email address is associated with my main account. I have rediscovered Tumblr accounts I didn't even realize were still registered!

Anyway, the point of this post is that I decided to check my tracked tags on each account and on this one I'm tracking my surname. Well apparently the stylist for One Direction shares this surname and the entire tag is just, like, pictures of her hanging out with One Direction or text posts about how great she is. It's weird.

Anyway, usually it's shitty early 20th century poetry so I guess it takes all kinds to make a world. Or a tag. Whatever.

HI AND BYE!

[nerd-gasms]

You might have noticed I was missing from your dash! Then again maybe not. I've been over at whineandbeer for a while now. 

This has been your periodic (sporadic) reminder.

[nerd-gasms]

In case you missed my first post, I've moved over to whineandbeer! It's just the same old nonsense, but if you're the sort of person who's into that you might be interested.

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It's not a secret, I just have too many followers here and I don't want that many! So I've decided to decamp to another blog. If you want to follow me there you're more than welcome. I've already followed a bunch of you (and was even going to send messages from this address to let you know I've moved) but it was too much work and I'm lazy so this is (maybe) it. 

[doctorsprotege]

Tumblr Help: Convos

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doctorsprotege:

Hypothetical situation: Say you had a best friend from college (so for like 5ish years) who you were very close to.  Say you had not talked to your best friend for about a month because there was lot going on in your life, and you had been ignoring their calls/invitations/etc.  

Say you then meet up with that friend again under a very trying circumstance where the friend could be pretty mad at you, but the friend is really nice instead.  

Question: What kind of things would you talk about? Would you gloss over “where the hell were you for the last month” and pretend it was all okay? Would you lie? Would you apologize? Talk about the “good old times”?

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Full Disclosure: This is for the purpose of writing a short story. Thoughts?

I fall out of touch with people for months at a time all the time, and I never think of that as weird and therefore I don't even acknowledge it. I just sort of pick back up? But maybe the OTHER person thinks that's a strange approach. Might be cool to see two characters approaching the same separation differently. Anyone who approaches human interaction like a normal person have an answer for Kat?

[dancingtilldawn-blog]

[nerd-gasms]

Everybody hates you. Everybody wishes that you were dead. Peter you suck. Peter you suck. Peter your music is fucking terrible. Peter you suck, Peter you suck. You don’t do anything of value. Peter you suck. Go write some music. But instead you sit and write these bullshit songs. It’s so self-loathing. Go see a psychiatrist. I hate the psychiatrist. Go see one anyway. I’M NOT GOING.

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Tuesday Blues Day

Tuesday is the worst! It hasn't even really started yet!

Last night around 10pm they (meaning I guess the Department of Transportation) started grating my street, which is an almost entirely residential street. These shenanigans continued until roughly 4am. The actual grating noise wasn't so bad with my combo of air conditioner and earplugs, but the constant backup beeping noise from the truck kept me awake all fucking night. AWFUL. I got two lovely hours of fitful sleep, and then I got up early enough to go to Starbucks, because my coffee maker is broken. 

Of course, OF COURSE, I spilled my coffee all over the subway platform. I put it down on the seat next to me to get something out of my bag, and it did that "sliding through its own condensation" thing right over the edge and onto the floor. All that beautiful caffeine, gone! And it didn't seem likely that I would come across another opportunity to buy coffee due to the stupid way the train --> ferry --> train timetable works, and the fact that my 20 minute walk through suburbia passes a bunch of houses with Tea Party lawn signs, but zero stores. Fortunately there was enough time for me to get a cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain before I got my train, but of course their coffee sucks and also they only had tiny cups. Still! I needed it!

And now I haven't heard back about scheduling this interview on Thursday, and it seems there's an event I'm supposed to work at on Saturday, and everything is generally awful.

[one-word-unless]

Take the win! What are you so angry about? Yes, government still exists. We still have ‘traffic lights.’ We’re sorry! Not everybody defines freedom as the ability to not pay taxes. Government isn’t perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

Jon Stewart to the Tea Party—The Daily Show August 1 2011

Check out the clip here.

(via wisconsinforward)

[inothernews]

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inothernews:

A dog is caught mid-shake by photographer Carli Davidson.  (via the Telegraph)

GPOYT

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Attn: onionlike

[bohemea]

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bohemea:

David Bowie

There must always be a Stark in Winterfell.

Or, I guess, a Bowie.

[nerd-gasms]

I had to look him up! But yes, you have me pegged: dark, brooding, and handsome. Psych! More like pale, anxious, and handsome, but handsome in the way you describe a lady as handsome, which usually means "I guess she's not hideous or anything but I don't particularly want to do her."

[nerd-gasms]

I'm too busy having a panic attack to decide whether I'm having a good day or not.

I think it's an objectively good day? Snagged two job interviews, for example. Admin positions all, but whatever. One is two blocks from my apartment, so there's that.

[myrussianutopia]

[nerd-gasms]

myrussianutopia:

leg bookmarks. 

#swag 

I might need this.

[youarenotyou-deactivated2012022]

RECIPE REQUEST!

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youarenotyou:

ok, tumblr, so here’s the situation: i have no money to buy groceries for the next 2 weeks. i just ran out of bread and i have no fresh produce except for garlic and ginger. i have enough money to buy onions, but that’s it. problem: i suck at cooking unless it’s from a recipe, and i am going to go through my cookbooks later, but most of them rely on fresh produce. so if any of y’all are talented at making recipes with what you have on hand, i would so appreciate any help.

thankfully, my tendency to go overboard at the grocery store when hypomanic has resulted in a pretty well-stocked pantry. i have the following:

tons of beans, rice, pearled barley, flax seed, wheat germ, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, canned tomatoes,  refrigerated polenta, corn tortillas, cheese (monteray jack, ricotta, feta), sundried tomatoes, pasta (pretty much every kind), tomato sauce, tempeh, eggs, oats, soy milk, flour, sugar, millet, sweeteners, corn meal, lemon & lime juice, capers, margarine, shortening, walnuts, slivered almonds, cashews,dried coconut,everything bagels, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, canola + olive oils, various vinegars, tamarind concentrate, tahini, refried beans, bouillion, lentils, yeast, nutritional yeast, peanut butter, sesame seeds, black olives, pineapple, salsa verde, enchilada sauce, a bunch of condiments (no ketchup)

and the following frozen vegetables, which are all really freezer burned ‘cuz my freezer is broken: cauliflower, kale, broccoli, green beans, spinach (not much), peas, brussels sprouts, a mix of kale+ mustard+ collard greens

i have these spices: cajun seasoning, celery seed, chili flake, rosemary, tarragon, fenugreek, garam masala, fennel seed, cumin seed, sage, anise seed, cloves, salt + pepper, dill, cinnamon, whole + ground coriander, whole allspice, ground garlic + ginger, thyme, nutmeg, old bay seasoning, curry powder, black mustard seed, turmeric, caraway seed, cardamom pods, bay leaves

tonight i am going to make stuffed shells for dinner. after that….???

if you have a recipe or suggestion my aim is blastopheme and my email is [email protected] — tumblr’s messaging system sucks so i’d rather not use it.

if anyone can help i love you so much. seriously <3

Signal boost! Also, http://www.food.com/ has a Recipe Sifter tool that might be useful.

[nerd-gasms]

Fell off the "no Smiths" wagon.

Possibly because I have a playlist on Spotify and am too lazy to make other playlists. Still! I had a really good weekend and didn't listen to any "oh God I think I might be a defective human being" music, and maybe there's a connection? Who knows. The universe is infinite and mystical. 

As you might suspect, this is all just a lead-in for the following question: What should I be listening to on Spotify?