Back to reality

I'm returning to work (very) part time tomorrow. If you can, send me thoughts of energy and strength; it's the beginning of a grand experiment.

(photo via http://backstoryradio.org)

I've been feeling foresty

So here:

In a Word

nemophilist
n. one who is fond of the forest

chiminage
n. a toll for passage through a forest

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We are broke.

We are broke.

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Why feminists shouldn't hate Twilight quite so much (maybe)

"This is an uncomfortable place for feminists, because this heroine is not particularly good at actualizing herself. Bella waits, she wallows, she thinks, and feels, and worries, and wonders. She does not actualize in the sense we have come to expect from our heroines, an expectation that, I might point out, is quite often based on a masculinist understanding of what being effective in the world looks like. Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of the popular The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo series, is emotionally stunted but, damn it, she actualizes herself! She punishes the people who hurt her, she sleeps with whomever she wishes, she zips around on a motorcycle, and she's a master computer hacker. In other words, our actualized female heroine might as well be a tiny man"

http://thehairpin.com/2011/11/our-bella-ourselves

(via the awl)

Chinese elderly citizens' choir covers Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

Video Link: "Lao Lai Qiao Gaga," from Hunan TV, China. (via @Theremina)

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Uke-ular Power

And may I also add:

Agreed.