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I’m going to reward myself with working harder. 2012, you’re only going to get better.
This is Ulyana Sergeenko’s DEBUT collection.
This is so me. You may as well wrap it up and tie it with a bow for me.
(Source: riseabove-aseriesofcycles)
Found this in the process of educating Midori on Bay Area hip-hop. It is simply one of the best things ever, I have no words. Just watch.
God bless America (especially the yay area).
Stop apologizing for being smart. Sexy is not a dirty word. (A Tale of Two Issues.)
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
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Courtney Martin (via air-light-time-space)
I guess what frightens me, is how much this hits home.
Did you know Nicolas Flamel was a real person? Paris teaches me something new every day.
Well the highlight of my first day of school, Mom, was obviously when I sat down to drink a Diet Snapple and eat a Luna Bar before class and to my right was Sarah Jessica Parker. Duh.
Why am I not on campus?
AP: Next Stop, North Korea
The AP opens first Western news bureau in North Korea.
Via the Associated Press:
The Associated Press opened its newest bureau here Monday, becoming the first international news organization with a full-time presence to cover news from North Korea in words, pictures and video.
In a ceremony that came less than a month after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il and capped nearly a year of discussions, AP President and CEO Tom Curley and a delegation of top AP editors inaugurated the office, situated inside the headquarters of the state-run Korean Central News Agency in downtown Pyongyang…
…The bureau puts AP in a position to document the people, places and politics of North Korea across all media platforms at a critical moment in its history, with Kim’s death and the ascension of his young son as the country’s new leader, Curley said in remarks prepared for the opening.
“Beyond this door lies a path to vastly larger understanding and cultural enrichment for millions around the world,” Curley said. “Regardless of whether you were born in Pyongyang or Pennsylvania, you are aware of the bridge being created today.”
Curley said the Pyongyang bureau will operate under the same standards and practices as AP bureaus worldwide.
“Everyone at The Associated Press takes his or her responsibilities of a free and fair press with utmost seriousness,” he said. “We pledge to do our best to reflect accurately the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as well as what they do and say.”
Image: Associated Press President Tom Curley, left, and Korean Central News Agency President Kim Pyong Ho hang the Associated Press Pyongyang sign on the door to open a new AP bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea on Monday Jan. 16, 2012. Via the AP.
“People sterilized against their will under a discredited North Carolina state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. This is the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of eugenics. The governor appointed panel recommended that the money go to verified, living victims and the legislature still has to approve the payments. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized more than 7,600 individuals in the name of “improving” the state’s “human stock.” By the time the program ended, the majority of those who were sterilized fit a similar profile: they were young, black, poor women. “I just want it to be over,” 57-year-old Elaine Riddick, told the AP. She was sterilized when she was 14 after she gave birth to a son who was the product of rape. “You can’t change anything. You just let go and let God.” Riddick, who’s seen in the video above, said she was surprised that the task force recommended $50,000 instead of $20,000. (Earlier reports announced the victims would get anywhere between $20,000 and $50,000.) Some say the big victory here is that the state acknowledge they were wrong. “It’s not really about the money,” said Melissa Hyatt, whose stepfather was sterilized. “It’s about the suffering and the pain.”
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NC Panel: Sterilization Victims Should Get $50K (via honeyandsun
)
They always leave this out of the history books.
(Source: cocothinkshefancy)
Ashley Olsen in vintage Christian Dior couture, Met Ball 2011
Everything about this is perfect to me. Puffy sleeves? Check. Cream and black palette? Check. Petite Olsen? Check. Danielle Nachmani, what a wondrous stylist you are.
Open up! Archeologists now concede that Pandora’s Box was indeed the world’s first-ever status bag.
Some anthropology/archaeology/Columbia/Core Curriculum humor right there.
(Source: theycanhaveitalll)
Je t’aime, Paris. A belated cheers to the new year.
This is the time of year when even people who hate the gym think about going to the gym. Many of us are still digesting whole floors of gingerbread houses, and jeans that fit comfortably in October are now a denim humiliation.
Sweating is a good way to begin 2012. Exercise, like dark chocolate and office meetings that suddenly get canceled, is a proven pathway to nirvana. But if you’re going to join a gym—or returning to the gym after a long hibernation—consider the following:
1. A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly better about yourself. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.
2. Give yourself a goal. Maybe you want to lose 10 pounds. Maybe you want to quarterback the New York Jets into the playoffs. But be warned: Losing 10 pounds is hard.
3. Develop a gym routine. Try to go at least three times a week. Do a mix of strength training and cardiovascular conditioning. After the third week, stop carrying around that satchel of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
4. No one in the history of gyms has ever lost a pound while reading “The New Yorker” and slowly pedaling a recumbent bicycle. No one.
5. Bring your iPod. Don’t borrow the disgusting gym headphones, or use the sad plastic radio attachment on the treadmill, which always sounds like it’s playing Kenny Loggins from a sewer.
6. Don’t fall for gimmicks. The only tried-and-true method to lose 10 pounds in 48 hours is food poisoning.
7. Yes, every gym has an overenthusiastic spinning instructor who hasn’t bought a record since “Walking on Sunshine.”
8. There’s also the Strange Guy Who is Always at the Gym. Just when you think he isn’t here today…there he is, lurking by the barbells.
9. “Great job!” is trainer-speak for “It’s not polite for me to laugh at you.”
10. Beware a hip gym with a Wilco step class.
11. Gyms have two types of members: Members who wipe down the machines after using them, and the worst people in the universe.
12. Nope, that’s not a “recovery energy bar with antioxidant dark chocolate.” That’s a chocolate bar.
13. Avoid Unsolicited Advice Guy, who, for the small fee of boring you to death, will explain the proper method for any exercise in 45 minutes or longer.
14. You can take 10 Minute Abs, 20 Minute Abs, and 30 Minute Abs. There is also Stop Eating Pizza and Eating Sheet Cake Abs—but that’s super tough!
15. If you’re motivated to buy an expensive home exercise machine, consider a “wooden coat rack.” It costs $40, uses no electricity and does the exact same thing.
16. There’s the yoga instructor everyone loves, and the yoga instructor everyone hates. Memorize who they are.
17. If you see an indoor rock climbing wall, you’re either in a really cool gym or a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson.
18. Be cautious about any class with the words “sunrise,” “hell,” or “Moby.”
19. If a gym class is going to be effective, it’s hard. If you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself, you’re at brunch.
20. If you need to bring your children, just let them loose in the silent meditation class. Nobody minds, and kids love candles.
21. Don’t buy $150 sneakers, $100 yoga pants, and $4 water. Muscle shirts are for people with muscles, and rhythm guitarists.
22. Fancy gyms can be seductive, but once you get past the modern couches and fresh flowers and the water with lemon slices, you’re basically paying for a boutique hotel with B.O.
23. Everyone sees you secretly racing the old people in the pool.
24. If you’re at the point where you’ve bought biking shoes for the spinning class, you may as well go ahead and buy an actual bike. It’s way more fun and it doesn’t make you listen to C+C Music Factory.
25. Fact: Thinking about going to the gym burns between 0 and 0 calories.
26. A successful gym membership is like a marriage: If it’s good, you show up committed and ready for hard work. If it’s not good, you show up in sweatpants and watch a lot of bad TV.
27. There is no secret. Exercise and lay off the fries. The end.
Where’s my infomercial and best seller?
— Jason Gay (via The Wall Street Journal)
