laurenfrohne

horses x 4

How to Write With Style, by Kurt Vonnegut

Hmm…he forgot to mention “Liberal use of puns”.

Ira Glass: Storytelling and the Creative Process

A large (and frankly, scary) part of my graduate program will include being creative and having actual artistic skills (which I have very little of). Another large part (that I feel more comfortable with) is storytelling; but I’m already feeling anxious about all the details that go into telling other people’s stories: how to find “good” compelling stories, how to deliver the story, how to illustrate it. And also, coping with not being good at it to begin with.

I’ve only recently gotten into This American Life … today, I came across these videos of [Ira Glass] talking about the creative process and storytelling…

Full text of post HERE.

(via LifeHacker)

6 years ago: a match made in lurker heaven

alicia: im telling that girl about how you and i first became friends
me: haha
alicia: because you saw my "lj" picture screensaver and i asked you if you were going to bright eyes
me: and it was magic. cReEpY magic. and kind of emo.

boringloser:

Tumblr. - The Documentary.

Reblogged from Dave Seger's Blog

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LET’S suppose you’ve decided to eat less meat, or are considering it. And let’s ignore your reasons for doing so. They may be economic, ethical, altruistic, nutritional or even irrational. The arguments for eating less meat are myriad and well-publicized, but at the moment they’re irrelevant, because what I want to address here is (almost) purely pragmatic: How do you do it

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The Minimalist - The Minimalist - Putting Meat in Its Place - NYTimes.com (via adamiss)

nice find, adam.

(via soupsoup)

Most people assume that I’m vegetarian for some moral, animals-are-people-too reason. And the majority of them are taken aback when I say that I don’t eat meat because I think animals are gross and I don’t want them in my mouth. So, no, I never get cravings for meat (I get that question all the time). Also, like in this article, I always get the “Where do you get your protein from?!” question, or people go out of their way to find restaurants where I “can eat something” (which is considerate, but annoyingly so).

It’s pretty baffling to me that people believe that you can’t have a meal unless it involves meat in some way, and that you’re automatically malnourished if you’re vegetarian. My only ailment is that I’m anemic (like a lot of women in the world), but I was actually more iron-defficient when I was a meat-eater (in high school), probably because I eat much healthier things now that meat is not the center of my diet.

Reblogged from Soup

soupsoup:

siddman:

hilker:

someecards.com - (via lamblr)

Reblogged from Soup

More Of My Friends Get Engaged Or Married

Scott: do you need a good laugh at my expense? [Insert link to his new engagement/wedding website]
Me: more like a good BARF
Scott: you're more like a good barf!

I only just caught this last night — Wyatt Cenac explaining why Lost is better television than the Democratic primary! lulz.

obama08:

Congrats Obama. You did it.

Via Katespencer:

“America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.”

- The next President of the United States

LET’S DO THIS AMERICA.

Reblogged from Obama in '08