Monthly Archives: September 2014

women who want to be alone

Please, please, pleaaaaseeeeee, Mallory Ortberg?!! Just hire me already.

Read the entire series “Women Who Want to be Alone” here.

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i have my needlework
and my secrets

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ahh i would love to stay and go out with you 
i would love that 
so much
but i have to keep running away from you 
sorry 
😦 
how did you say 😦 out loud like that
idk sorry cant stop running away tho!!

 

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ahh sorryyyy
sorry my arms are trees now 
what’s that, can’t hear you, arms are trees

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alternate histories

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Over the weekend, I elbowed through hipster crowds in this unusual late-September heat to view pretzel earrings and graphic tees at Crafty Bastard. I don’t know why there aren’t more things like this in DC. Let’s fix that, crafters!

One of my favorite stands though was Alternate Histories. A T-Rex in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? A dinosaur interrupting the serenity of The Grande Jatte? Sign me up. Turns out this guy also has a book coming out in October. I mean, you already know how I feel about an altered Venus

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BFFs

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Oh man, I thought I was the only one who realized this relationship. Thank you, Leroy’s Place!

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titanic

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Sometimes art is a poster from your old CD collection.

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tahitian women

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Girl, I see you and I hear that. I wouldn’t wanna be about that “painted by Gauguin” life either.

Read more about how much I loathe Paul Gauguin here, here, here, herehere…oh!, and here.

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atlas

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Zeus made Atlas hold the heavens after the Titans lost to the Olympians.

This looks like a globe, right? That whole “world on your shoulders” mantra? From Atlas, right? Wrong. This is a celestial sphere, so, school your friends with that little piece of knowledge.

The Farnese Atlas is the oldest sculpture of the Titan, and is a second-century Roman marble copy of a Greek original.

Go ahead and see another Atlas at Rockefeller Center.

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This Art Deco beauty was installed and unveiled in 1937. He’s 45 feet tall.

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money shower

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So, I moved into a new apartment, which means that I’ve basically thrown out everything that was all nice and right with my old place, and plan to burn a bunch of money on new things.

Well, some money. I’ll just go ahead and add these $140+ shower curtains from Anthropologie onto my Amazon Wishlist…hint hint.

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unsatisfied women

I decided there’s no better way to start a Tuesday than to share another one of Mallory Ortberg’s masterpieces. Read the full article here

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i like dont want to be rude or anything
but me and this dog are kind of hanging out right now
so

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this isn’t really doing it for me anymore
do you want me to tell them to dance faster
no
i want them to dance better
jesus
this is a nightmare
i didnt say stop

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youre the only one i can trust
you and this leopard skin on the floor
the only ones i can trust

Mallory Ortberg, just hang out with me already.

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sunday afternoon

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Georges Seurat completed Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte in 1886. He was 27. You know what I considered an artistic accomplishment at 27? Marble painting my nails. 

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modern art

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Sometimes art is Art always is the love of a beloved, best friend, soulmate, ballerina-twin-emoji partner for life. Thank you for this book, you beautiful thing. I treasure you.