I don’t think my love for Kate Beaton is a secret. The following comic is particularly fabulous (and seasonal). Please go to her hilarious website – Hark! A Vagrant – and read every single comic she’s ever written. No, seriously go. Go now.
Via Goulet.
Pangea is the supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago. Here it is with today’s political borders (roughly).
Via.
All hail the green screen.
Two thoughts:
a) Would not want to be wearing contact lenses.
b) Best Facebook profile photo ever.
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From the series “Blow Job” by Lithuanian photographer Tadao Cern.
Via Slate, you can see the rest here.
A creative way to tell your friends that your relationship is coming to an end. Congratulations to the (former) couple for handling things in a graceful, mature and kind way, and special high-five to Ivory for being straight-up about the fact that she doesn’t want kids. This might comes as a shock — but not every woman does. (Nor does every man, but that seems to be a lot less controversial for some unfair reason?)
Via Ashley of Decently Domestic.
“These colorful pipes send and receive water for cooling our facility. Also pictured is a G-Bike, the vehicle of choice for team members to get around outside our data centers.” Photo by Connie Zhou.
Welcome to the innermost guts of Google… quite literally Where the Internet Lives.
Via Slate.
Ashley Vincent/National Geographic Photo Contest
Check out the rest of the set. In the meantime, happy Thanksgiving, Canada.
Terry Gross interviewed Lena Dunham on NPR’s Fresh Air. During the interview, she played a clip of a scene from Girls, which Dunham then expanded on. The scene is one of my favourites from Season 1, and I liked Dunham’s elaboration so much I typed it out for you. Here it is…
Clip — Lena Dunham’s character Hannah, speaking to the guy she’s interested in: “I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me. And it makes me feel very stupid to tell you this because it makes me sound like a girl, who wants to like go to brunch and I really don’t want to go to brunch, and I don’t want you to like sit on the couch while I shop, or like even meet my friends. I don’t even want that.”
Lena Dunham: I think that there there’s a way that Hannah – and by extension myself – she has trouble with certain kinds of earnest expressions and maybe that’s a generational thing, maybe that’s her own anxiety that if she expresses herself in a true way she’s going to get shut down. But I think it was important for her, even as she said this incredibly sort of sweet, heartfelt thing, which is ‘I want you to want to spend time with just me, I want you to want to be with me’ I mean, she wants just what everybody wants which is –
Terry Gross: She wants a monogamous boyfriend.
Dunham: A monogamous loving partner, and yet she feels that she needs to explain that while she wants the thing everybody else wants, she is not like everybody else. And I think that is the important distinction to her, is that she thinks with the desire for a boyfriend comes all of these other trappings of being a sort of like bougie woman that she doesn’t think of herself as. She’s like ‘I’m a writer, and a thinker, and so anything you equate with being a boyfriend is not what you’re going to get with me.’ Even though once they were together she probably would want him to meet her friends, she probably would want him to sit on the couch while they shopped, and, god forbid, she would want him to go to brunch – but in this moment she sort of needs to define herself as this completely other type of woman, even as she wants what women want.
This show is uncomfortably accurate. Lena Dunham, hats off.
One of my best friends is bumming around Europe for the summer. Just because. Check out her blog and join me in my envy. It’s ok to hate her, just a little bit.
yeah just hanging out at a French castle built into a cliff.
And of course, when I say “bumming around Europe” I clearly mean “eating her way across the continent”:
uh, yum.
I don’t think I would ever want to marry someone enough to go to that much work.
Although maybe I’m just bitter that I’m pretty sure I don’t know 60 people. Either way, this is extremely heart-warming, and a pretty great way to spend five minutes.
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