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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

What are some of your favourite songs from childhood? like tracks your dad liked so you liked them too kind of thing

I mostly fell in love with albums. When I was about 4 or 5 years old my father put me in charge of choosing the records that we’d listen to on the weekends, I took that job SO seriously. These were my favorites from that time:

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Hotel California - The Eagles
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore

And my mother used to play Tracy Chapman’s self-titled album on repeat, I still listen to that album all the time.

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I can’t be bothered to work hard to stay/advance my smarts, but i hate feeling stupid/brain decay. Do you ever have this fight with yourself? How do you stay in the game mentally?

no not really… i’ve been almost obsessed with learning things from more or less birth. i mean we’re only here for so long, i feel like there are so many things to know about. idk, i used to do research projects for fun in the summer between school, the way i feel when walking into a library is like an addict walking into a pharmacy. i am probably the worst person to ask this question to, ask someone else.

Ask Riese an actual thing. (Ending a paragraph with “help” or “help me?” is not an actual thing)

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a stranger I never communicated w/ read my blog and sent me a package using information he deduced. I emailed him to ask him to please not contact me again, because it was scary and upsetting, but he responded very angrily and I’m scared. what do i do?

as much as i am scared/distrustful of most people in uniforms i think you need to tell the police. file a report and give them as much information as you have about him. so that if he does anything else there’s a track record, and maybe they can advise you as to whether anything he’s done is actually illegal. because i don’t know. i hope it’s at least harassment but i don’t know. tell someone (besides me anonymously on formspring) because that is really scary and i want someone to know so they can help you. also if it were me i would probably delete everything about me on the internet ever but maybe that’s letting the terrorists win, i don’t know. i hate this man and i hope you never ever have to deal with him again ever.

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good day to you. what is your browser of choice and why please?

Chrome is awesome because I like the tab set-up. But also because I can right-click (ctrl+click) on something and then select “Inspect Element” to see the CSS code that makes it look that way. You can also double-click the code and change it to see what it would look like (though this doesn’t actually change the code of a website, it’s just a good way to learn CSS!)

I learned this trick recently… it’s a really awesome tool for web designers/developers.

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Pros and Cons of wearing boxer briefs? i think i want to start wearing them but i feel like they might roll up in the thigh area and get annoying?

Pros: no wedgies, completely comfortable. I have some kinds that feel invisible like I’m not even wearing underwear.

Cons: some kinds of mens brief do ride up on my leg… but I just pull them down. It’s a lot better than riding up my ass. I’ll take it.

THE SECRET IS: (and I’ve recently found out, after much experience with wearing mens briefs…)

SEAMLESS TRUNKS.

I promise you. These are the ticket.
They are thin but stretchy so it’s like you’re wearing nothing, and there’s no “penis pocket” so you don’t have that weird thing going on at your crotch like some other mens underwear might do and they fit just fine under pants of any tightness because they are a thing material.

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mrsexsmith
But it’s Sheen the misogynist who holds the key to the puzzle. Holmes points out that self-destructive celebrities are nothing new; it’s just that they’re normally treated differently. “Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears are endlessly derided for their extracurricular meltdowns and lack of professionalism,” she writes. It’s true: Shaming is normally a major part of the sport of celebrity crash-gawking. All Miley Cyrus had to do was take an (apparently legal) bong hit and hold onto a pole during a musical performance, and we regularly treat her as if she’d released several dozen sex tapes filmed atop a pile of crack rocks. Sheen, by contrast, has displayed far more troubling behavior, and become a hero. This actually makes sense: Lohan and Spears are breaking all the rules of femininity. But as Sheen has gotten more out of control, his behavior has become more stereotypically masculine.

Comic Masculinity: The Three Faces of Charlie Sheen

Good article by Sady Doyle on Charlie Sheen and “comic masculinity.”

(via clarityandchaos)

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