January 2012
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"Newsweek Reviving Its 1960s Design for 'Mad Men'...
The magazine experienced its own upheavals in those years as cultural norms shifted. “In that period women were not even allowed to write for the magazine,” Ms. Brown said. “There was a whole ‘Mad Men’ culture at Newsweek. Women had to be the researchers and the copy backup to the sort of swaggering male writers. In the ‘70’s, the women of Newsweek...
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Downton Abbey makes everything better.
luciwithani:
Thanks a lot to all of you getting me ADDICTED to this show.
December 2011
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End the battle for your attention on your computer. It’s your computer, not...
– From Don’t blame the information for your bad habits, an article claiming that “we don’t suffer from information overload - we suffer from information overconsumption and poor consumption habits.” (via rianvdm)
Yeah…that makes sense.
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I have just decided that high schoolers on...
This has been a post.
(But seriously. Reading their try-to-be-cool-and-suggestive posts is like reading text messages that aren’t yours. It’s just uncomfortable.)
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Life gets ridiculous on a Friday afternoon.
me: I am sitting here chuckling to myself
but my colleagues might beat you to it
James: well chuckle it up, sweet cheeks
me: you're sweet cheeks!
James: you are!
me: most ridiculous gchat convo ever
James: you think?
I'm sure we've had some more ludicrous exchanges
me: blog post
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Defriend vs. Unfriend
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that they made the latter one official? I use “defriend” and feel like that is the one I hear most often. I think of “unfriend” as the version non-original Facebook users use, the ones who signed up in swarms and squashed all form of Facebook etiquette and the coolness surrounding the social network.
Not that I’m bitter or...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Getting married in six days
Why do I just feel like I’m going to throw up? Is this what they call the wedding day jitters? I keep thinking I just need to eat something but then I do and feel worse.
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surisburnbook:
Here’s a photo of Reese Witherspoon and her son Deacon running errands! I love this photo because she is holding $20 bills, which I have never seen this close before.
I mean, barely anyone even carries cash anymore, right? I think studies show that carrying bills lower than fifties is how you get anthrax. I’ve only ever seen fifties and hundreds.
Who’s even on the twenty? I...
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But none of my professional understanding could console me ahead of time for the...
– The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova
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Online Shopping Help
Y’all came through for me before when I was looking for dresses online. Now, let’s say I need to find a nice handbag that isn’t $300, where would you direct me?
Please love and thank you!
September 2011
15 posts
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She knows her role is to bring a spotlight onto causes and she will do that –...
– I will never get over how much I love hearing the Brits talk about their people. (in this case, Kate Middleton.)
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