January 2010
9 posts
Dreams are nosy sonsofabitches!
This song is the most quietly precise...
http://kateharding.net/2010/01/12/just-a-reminder/ →
It’s nothing new, but sometimes it still surprises/sociologically intrigues/makes me feel better about all the choices of beauty available:
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In 1912, Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn, New York, was deemed the “most nearly perfect specimen of womanhood” among Cornell’s four hundred coeds. Scheel was twenty-four years old, stood five feet seven inches tall, weighed in at a healthy 171...
Fuck. Just realized for the first time, while walking home, that there is in fact intelligible meaning in the sentence, “If there’s a bushel in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now/It’s just an offering for the may queen.”
WatchAn Australian Beatles tribute band covers “Stairway to Heaven,” Beatles style. It makes you really bizarrely conscious of the lyrics. And renews my thoughts of ” ‘If there’s a bushel in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now’? What the fuck, Robert Plant?”
Women with cancer
have a 20.8% chance of ending up divorced after their diagnosis. Men diagnosed with cancer have a 2.9% chance of their marriage ending. The article says the overall rate of divorce in the entire population is around 11%, so men are two/thirds less likely to lose their marriages when they get cancer, but women’s odds of losing their marriages double.
I’m not even angry about it,...