This amazing story, about the Lykovs, has been going around the internet lately, and thank you to everyone who’s sent it to me, confirming my belief that you like to think of me when you see anything remotely Russian AND remotely creepy.
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Alone in the Siberian wilderness
You can’t understand a man until you cruise a mile in his Beemer
January 29, 2013
In the beginning of the world, goes the creation story of the Tohono O’odham people of southern Arizona, the First Born arose out of the darkness and created all the plants and the animals. But the plants and the animals didn’t like being in the darkness, so they begged the First Born to create something so they could all see how the other beings lived, and the First Born created the sun.
And then the First Born hightailed it the hell out of there, because people are assholes and don’t really care how other people live. They just want to live better than other people.
There are only 8 movies my husband and I can watch together
January 27, 2013
I can’t believe there are this many, actually.
This is what happens when you Friday Links
January 18, 2013
Path of Beauty from Florent Igla on Vimeo.
- Best writing I’ve read this week, about how movies with Lindsay Lohan get made
- What do data scientists do? <– This one eats Nutella.
- How people learn to separate other people
- “Victoria Lomasko is a Russian artist who is probably most famous in the West for her drawings from the frontlines of the Pussy Riot trial.”
- How we write web headlines
- How to dress for the cold…Mom, is that you?
- Walking around the world
- Even you can be nominated! And you and you!
- Chinese restaurants in New York
Did you know there are millennials who are normal people?
January 15, 2013
Did you know that there are millennials who:
don’t date people on OKCupid? don’t have trouble finding jobs? are not social media managers?don’t wear skinny jeans? don’t still live at home? are not typing out their IM conversations? are not on antidepressants? are not photographers? are still buying cars? whose parents were not helicopter parents? are not getting or sending sexts? don’t have college debt? are not completely incapable of real life? are not in “emerging adulthood?” don’t have shows? don’t have fashion blogs? are not lonely? are not writers in New York City? do not have a startup in San Francisco? are not on Pinterest?
Did you know that there are millennials who:
are responsible adults and handle their responsibilities without complaining?
Did you know there are millennials who:
Did you know millennials are not all the same?