this shit is some shit and i am real fucking sorry for that.
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Sweet mother of mercy, am I ever bad at this.
Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library -
Maria Bustillos:
David Wallace was a person who dwelt in darkness either by nature or compulsion, or maybe even by mere habit, or maybe just because he’d been given the wrong medication. Depression is a very inward-turned and self-loathing thing; he trapped himself in this sort of interior abattoir. But like all depressed persons, Wallace loathed himself in error.
Brisbane woman raped in the UAE, jailed for adultery -
In June 2008 Ms Gali had her drink spiked and was raped by up to four co-workers while working as a beauty salon manager at the international resort.
When she reported the assault to authorities she was jailed on an adultery charge and spent eight months in prison because it is illegal in the UAE to have sex outside marriage.
7. Make vague physical advances toward your love interest.
Sex and twee don’t correlate very well. That’s why people who are twee don’t have sex. They ‘make love.’ And if that’s a little too 1975 for your liking, you can use other adorable little euphemisms like “touching bodies until [name of love interest] makes a noise”.
My school is kind of a never ending stream of this.
The Awl: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text -
I promised myself that I’d not mention this particular fad. But:
“Look and listen deeply,” she challenges. An onanistic recursion, at once Siren and Cassandra, she heralds a new chapter in the Homeric tradition. With a slight grin, she calls out to us: “I sing of the death of the individual, the dire plight of free will and the awful barricades daily built inside the minds of all who endure what lately passes for American life. And here I shall tell you of what I have done in order to feel alive again.”
The Rumpus: The Careless Language of Sexual Violence -
I’d quote the salient bit, but it’d end up as wholesale cut-and-paste.
The perfect martini? With vodka? -
That’ll be the day.
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