• "All she has left is the picture. Also the story of it."

-Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

-Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them."

-Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • "But why bother about the end of the worl...
mar 2 2017 ∞
may 17 2017 +
  • Visit the Supreme Court
  • See the Pentagon Memorial at night
  • Library of congress
  • Smithsonian
  • Sit in on congressional floor / committee debates
jul 2 2013 ∞
jul 2 2013 +
  • fairest with Phil Jiminez's pencils and Andrew Dalhouse's colors
  • Justice League Vol. 1: Origin (The New 52) by Geoff Johns,

May 8

mar 12 2012 ∞
mar 12 2012 +
  • The Way We Were
  • Love Story (i want to grow up to be the girl from it, without the dying part)
  • Les Choristes (the singing was sooo good)
  • Donnie Darko (cellar door)
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Karate Kid
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Away We Go
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Father of the Bride (part II)
  • Taxi Driver
  • The Illusionist
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather Part II
  • All About Eve
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Stella, Hey Stella!, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers, bette davis should have...
jun 17 2010 ∞
nov 2 2014 +
  • back to the future (dvd)
  • spirited away/princess mononoake (?)
  • fantastic mr. fox (dvd)
  • sunset boulevard (dvd)
  • citizen kane (dvd)
  • the great gatsby shirt from out of print... also the catcher and the rye shirt
  • save me the waltz by zelda sayre
  • messenger bag
  • mobile hammock
  • speakers for laptop
  • booklight
  • planet earth dvds
  • mini fridge?
  • a poster that has something to do with moby dick
  • a poster that has something to do with nabokov
  • death of omniman poster
  • new und
  • LOTR poster
aug 26 2011 ∞
jul 30 2012 +
  • Girl Interrupted at Her Music by Vermeer

http://www.art-reproductions.net/popup_i...

  • Poppies Blooming by Monet

http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/P...

  • Blue Nude by Matisse

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

  • Isolde by Beardsley

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/beardsley/ab...

  • Erna by Kirchner

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

  • Sitzender weiblicher Akt by Schiele

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

  • Paintings by J.M.W. Turner

http://www.art.com/asp/search_do.asp/_/posters.htm?ui=CBEA66C3A7D94B37BE4CC435B318E197&searchstring=turner

apr 25 2011 ∞
dec 11 2011 +
  • australian terrier
  • Burmese mountain dog
  • irish setter / golden retriever
  • sussex spaniel
  • australian shepherd
  • weimaraner
  • corgi
feb 15 2011 ∞
feb 15 2011 +
  • Tuck Everlasting
  • Black Beauty
  • Harry Potter
  • The Secret Garden
  • Age of Innocence
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Girl; Interrupted
  • Shutter Island
  • Carrie
  • The Shining
  • Misery
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter
  • The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Water for Elephants
  • My Sister's Keeper
  • Second Glance
  • Plain Truth
  • The Lovely Bones
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • On the Road
oct 23 2009 ∞
jun 30 2010 +
  • Pomona
  • Haverford
  • New College
  • Skidmore
  • Alleqheny
  • Sara Lawrence
  • Whitman
  • Hendrix
  • Occidental
  • Oberlin
  • Eckard
  • Goucher
  • Muhlenberg
  • Ursinus
  • Claremont-McKenna
  • College of Wooster
  • Swarthmore
jun 30 2010 ∞
feb 27 2011 +
  • Eastside
  • Viola/agonizing over quitting
  • Horseback riding
  • Favorite movie or book???
  • Quimby's
jun 30 2010 ∞
aug 10 2010 +
  • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
  • A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
  • ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
  • AMADEUS
  • AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
  • ANNIE HALL
  • BEN-HUR
  • BONNIE AND CLYDE
  • BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
  • CABARET
  • CITY LIGHTS
  • DANCES WITH WOLVES
  • DUCK SOUP
  • FRANKENSTEIN
  • GIANT
  • GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
  • HIGH NOON
  • IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
  • INTOLERANCE
jul 22 2013 ∞
jul 23 2013 +
  • The Fountainhead (NEVER!!!!!)
  • Enlightened Sexism
  • Private Series
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • The Catcher and the Rye
  • 1984
  • Deliverance
  • Valley of the Dolls
  • Eclipse
  • American Psycho
  • The Pact
  • Madame Bovary
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
  • Watchmen
  • There Are No Children Here
  • Beloved (4/30/11)
  • Atonement
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
jun 17 2010 ∞
mar 15 2014 +
  • Abeyance: temporary inactivity or cessation
  • Admonish: to caution/advise or to scold
  • Agog
  • Agminate: gathered/clustered
  • Ambidextrous
  • Ambrosia: drink of the gods
  • Ambulatory: capable of walking
  • Amorphous: having no definite shape
  • Anaconda
  • Antediluvian: of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood, chiefly humorous, ridiculously old fashioned
  • Apotheosis: epitome/quintessence or elevation of person to god
  • Arbitrary: random
  • Arcane: mysterious, understood by very few
  • Arid: without moisture/barren
  • Ascertain: learn with certainty
  • Ascetic: a person who devotes their life ...
aug 7 2010 ∞
aug 2 2013 +
  • The Lee Shore (chapter 23)
  • The Symphony (chapter 135)
  • Loomings (chapter 1)
  • The Log and Line (chapter 125)
  • The Hyena (chapter 49)
  • Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish (chapter 89)
  • The Doubloon (chapter 99)
  • Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London (chapter 100)
  • The Mat-Maker (chapter 47)
  • The Affidavit (chapter 45)
  • Queequeg and His Coffin (chapter 110)
jan 29 2011 ∞
jan 29 2011 +
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • The General in His Labyrinth
  • Never Let Me Go
  • There Eyes Were Watching God
  • Naked Lunch
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
jan 29 2011 ∞
feb 15 2011 +

Oldies

  • Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
  • They Shoot Horses Don't They (perhaps one of my most favorites)
  • Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • The Graduate
  • The Last Picture Show
  • Chinatown

Horror

  • The Shining
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Psycho
  • Rear Window
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Excorcist

Adrenaline-y/ Newer Movies That Are Actua...

feb 1 2010 ∞
may 19 2010 +
  • Christina Yang (grey's anatomy)
  • Merricat Blackwood (we have always lived in the castle)
  • Arya & Sansa Stark (game of thrones)
  • Madame Souza (the triples of bellville)
  • Kim Pine (scott pilgrim)
  • Azoula (avatar: the last airbender)
  • Fireball Roberts and "Hi Doggy" Doggy (from the last good kiss and the room)
  • Kaya (from transparent)
  • Cassie (from skins)
  • Y.T. (snow crash)
  • Princess Carolyn (bojack horseman)
  • Tamika Flynn (WTNV)
may 5 2015 ∞
aug 30 2015 +
  • And So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut)
  • Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

Ted Sorensen

  • Zelda
  • An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus by Tom Schultz
  • Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
  • Bossypants
  • Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman or My Life So Far
  • Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Livi...
jun 18 2012 ∞
jun 25 2012 +
  • "Suicide is not a way of ending pain; it's just a way of redistributing it."

-Borderline, Mishell Baker

  • "When abstraction sets to killing you, you've got to get busy with it."

-Camus originally, cited in "An Epidemic of Signification" by Treichler

  • "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Catch 22, Joseph Heller

  • "Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean ain’t nobody out to get you"

-Coleman Young (Mayor of Detroit)

  • "The world that is satisfying to us is the same world that is utterly devastating to them."

-Robert McAfee Brown, paraphrasing Juan L...

dec 25 2010 ∞
mar 2 2017 +
  • Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
  • The Book of Job by New International Version Bible
  • I Go Back to May by Sharon Olds
  • I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
apr 16 2011 ∞
apr 16 2011 +
  • shelden (after mon prefere celtic)
  • joe (after moi)
  • demetri (like in anastasia)
  • humphrey (bogart)
  • murray (as in hannah)
  • clark (gable nos lois & cause he was a prick)
  • jack
  • sid
  • gage (as in pet sematary)
  • clive
  • thelma
  • laroux
  • peach
  • delilah
  • mumbles
  • frothy
  • rebecca (bex)
  • petri
  • gary (but not for a hamster, for my cute little white cat)
jul 12 2010 ∞
may 9 2012 +

Crazy

  • Heavenly Creatures
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kate Winslet

  • Titanic
  • Revolutionary Road
  • The Reader

Best Actress

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf

Romantics

  • It Happened One Night

Humphrey Bogart

  • Casablanca
  • To Have and Have Not
  • The African Queen

Mafia

feb 19 2010 ∞
feb 19 2010 +
  • In the Town All Year 'Round
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Three Cheers for Tacky
  • King Bidgood's In the Bathtub
  • Rainbow Fish
  • Rainbow Zebra
  • Stellaluna
  • Lyle Lyle Crocodile
  • Make Way for Ducklings
  • Ferdinand the Bull
  • The Emperors New Clothes
  • Go Away Big Green Monster
  • The Story About Ping
oct 21 2009 ∞
oct 21 2009 +