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"a big gooey marshmallow core, covered in a thin crispy layer of absurdity." --absurdical

26, baby academic, pop-culture geek. An acquired taste, like goat cheese or Mr. Bean. Here there be: good-looking British actors and comedians, Community and Parks&Rec, Downton Abbey and other costume dramas, Tarantino, Doctor Who, Potter, Tolkien, Star Trek, sweaters/vests/sweatervests, Victorians, and things of questionable heterosexuality.

I also run Heck Yes, Matthew Goode! if you like things that are god damned glorious. Ask me anything

October 24, 2011

"To me, it’s like bad moviemaking, where as soon as Dad grabs the puppy, the shot immediately goes to Junior’s teary face — like the director does not trust the audience to have an appropriately developed emotion by itself,” Ms. Farinet wrote in an e-mail. “That’s what emoticons do. PLEASE don’t ‘show’ me that I should be happy-faced or sad-faced or that you are sad-faced or happy-faced.

“Can you imagine,” wrote Ms. Farinet, “reading the end of ‘The Great Gatsby’ like that?: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past :-( "

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Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural Studies - NYTimes.com

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH THIS IS IMPORTANT JOURNALISM, GUYS. these are really important questions about our hectic modern lives.

(via absurdical)

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