December 2011
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"We see what you did there at Number 4. Naturally... →
The 2011 Popjustice Readers’ Poll Survey yielded hilarious results, such as Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” being short-listed for Best Cover Version of a song due to its “completely incidental resemblance” to Madonna’s “Express Yourself”/Kelly Clarkson’s “Walk Away.”
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Haiku About the Birds of the Apocalypse on the...
Pigeons are pecking
pathetically at the crumbs
Happy New Year, birds!
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Haiku About Slow-Dancing With You to Lana Del...
Everybody is
stuffed on cake and champagne-drunk
but you’re so bored, though.
So let’s slow-dance to
Lana Del Rey’s “Born To Die.”
It won’t suck, I think.
When the strings swell, we
can twirl. Then, advance with a
box-step. A box-step.
Everybody is
puking in the garden. We
do another twirl.
The last year sinks as
the new one rises; they cheer.
They...
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When I have kids, I look forward to telling them,
“When I was your age, the Canadian Dollar was so weak against the American Dollar, your grandparents and I used to drive four hours to the Toronto IKEA to do all of our furniture shopping because somehow that was way cheaper than doing our furniture shopping in the States! On our way back, we stopped by the delicious Indo-Chinese restaurant for dinner. But times change! The U.S. and C.A....
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VIEWERS: Hey Rohin, what was your most popular Tumblr post of 2011? ME: With 6,875 notes and counting, this photo of UK girlband StooShe, who are also shortlisted on the BBC’s Sound of 2012.
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"i suppose we’re always on a learning curve. from... →
Amanda Palmer penned this exquisite, if slightly scattershot reflection on how we get used to bad habits.
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“From that point onward I never worked a regular office job again, solely writing...”
– Lucking Out, James Wolcott (via ferrrn)
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Top 10 Lists of 2011
• Popjustice’s Top 33 Albums of 2011
• Top 10 Animals of 2011
• Top 10 Feral Children of 2011
• Top 11 Covers of “Super Bass” of 2011
• Top 10 U.S.-bred Plants to Grow in the U.K. in 2011
• Top 10 Recipes of 2011
• Top 10 Ways to Get Sick in 2011
• Top 10 Craziest Moments of American Horror Story in 2011
• Top 10 Wind Energy Stories of 2011
• Top 10 Pirated Films of 2011
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You guys, Kelly Clarkson hinted at this Ron Paul...
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
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littleorphanammo replied to your post: Dear Rohin Guha, Thank you for your time and for… Let’s make some wallpaper out of this shit bitch, yes? Bathroom wallpaper.
Enough to ask one of those HGTV hunks to come on down and help me renovate...
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Dear Rohin Guha,
Thank you for your time and for the opportunity to read your work, but this submission is not right for ____ at this time.
We wish you the best in placing your work elsewhere and respectfully ask that you wait at least one month before submitting more work for consideration.
Sincerely,
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"A Brooklyn college student says he was the victim... →
It’s kind of unfortunate that this is what mine, yours, and everybody’s else’s tax dollars are being wasted on. I’d rather they build a new park across the street in a vacant lot that now collects trash.
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Several literary writers you should be following...
I’m really concerned that Tumblr’s Spotlight does not do poetry and prose writers any favors unless they are writing for some media outlet first and foremost. This is unfortunate because there little gems of talent sparkling in the dark recesses of the microblogging site. There are just a few that I’m aware of. You should follow them and then Google them to find out what great...
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Several Long Reads from this year that I have...
• Facebook as Antique Courtship Ritual by Niina Pollari
Facebook gives us a lot of information about people. People are now using this information to do background checks on potential prospects to make sure they are marrying into the same (or better!) class.
• The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help by Roxanne Gay, The...
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If you comb over all the posts I tagged as "leona... →
You see: First, I hate Leona Lewis! but with each blog post, I slowly warm to her. Now I openly love her. I love her like I do chocolate and coffee and hairspray. Leona Lewis is the Mississippi River that serves as the stage for my coming-of-age story. Take that, Tom Sawyer.
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"The patrons range from yuppy East Villagers to... →
The Yelp reviews of the Stuy-Town CVS are priceless and we have all, at one point or another in our miserable it’s-kind-of-like-the-island-from-Lost New York City existences, ended up there. It’s where the pharmacy staff is like Jacob: Handing you wrong prescriptions and expecting you to call them out on it…or risk losing your life should you fail to inspect the bottle before...
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Silver Swans, “Video Games”
We are...
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Whining to my parents -> Wining with my parents
I’ve grown up, you guys.
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Bullets, unproofed.
via maura:
In the car on the way home I thought a little bit more about the Muumuu mess. Sorry if these are too succinct for some people, but I have to get all of this out of my brain ASAP.
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I keep coming back to wondering how this Marie Calloway character has become a fixture in any scene, especially literary. (The literary scene being one where people should be rewarded for their...
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I just finished eating the rest of the chocolate...
AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR, ROHIN.
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Bonjour Canada Tumblrers, eh! Let's meet up for a...
I’m going to Toronto to ring in the New Year, mostly because my family and I have an instatiable hankering for Indo-Chinese food and there is not a place in the United States—not even New York City!—where you can get delicious Chinese food cooked by people who can speak Bengali and what use is it if you can’t scream across the restaurant, in Bengali, “HEY YOU, COULD...
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My family and I saw a film today with lots of...
Did we watch: (A) Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise (B) Don 2 starring Shah Rukh Khan AKA Bollywood’s version of Tom Cruise
Time’s tickin’, guys.
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Last 'Myst'mas, I gave you a game / but the very...
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I'm going to sneak my way onto the masthead of...
and then I’m going to write a glowing review of Joyful Noise—which is out in the second week of January—starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton and proclaim it, THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.
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The final 'Harry Potter' film was just like the...
“Good enough.”
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