January 2012
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thedailywhat:
Animated Short of the Day: “Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor.”
Co-directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, Morris Lessmore is one of five films nominated for an Oscar...
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Shame
Patrick and I saw SHAME this weekend because we waiting far too long to see Michael Fassbender naked (shame, shame on us). SHAME was a good film and Fassbender did an excellent job, but I often felt the movie was missing something, like a reveal moment or just a small moment letting you into the past lives of these two siblings. It is clear (at least to me) that something inappropriate happened...
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Shivers down my spine, people. Shivers. CAN’T. WAIT.
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A new tradition?
My lovely lovely friend Becca gave me this necklace in honor of the book I’m currently working on.
Isn’t it fantastic? If you remember my current WIP is about a girl living alone in a house with a lone wolf as her only companion. What’s interesting is that my previous novel had a lot of key imagery in it and as a present my sister found me a very lovely and ornate key on a...
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GCC: Butter Lane
For this episode of The Great Cupcake Challenge the GCC team visited the Butter Lane bakery. Jealous? Yeah you are.
Butter Lane offers three cupcakes bases: Chocolate, Vanilla and heaven – I mean Banana. Over those lovelies you can pick from over a dozen frosting flavors.
What flavors? Here’s a chart!!
As you can see there are far too many options and we didn’t try them all because we wanted to...
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Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
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25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
bookshelfporn:
Hilarious list by Open Salon for anyone who has ever thought about owning their own bookstore (eg. ALL of Bookshelf Porn’s readers).
I still want to open a bookstore. Though mine would be more Black Books style.
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thedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: The second part of Stephen Colbert’s must-see sit-down with accidental-children’s-writer Maurice Sendak.
[colbertnation.]
See Also: Part 1.
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thedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Stephen Colbert sits down with Where the Wild Things Are author and affable crank Maurice Sendak to discuss a potential Where the Wild Things sequel among other penises.
Part 2 airs tonight.
[ccinsider.]
This is fantastic.
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collegehumor:
Grad School Scam
The biggest financial scam in history is revealed.
“They…they called it a Masters in Fine Arts.”
OMG. This hits way to close to home.
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This no-budget science fiction short looks better... →
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