February 2012
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...”
– Lemony Snicket (via selfinspiration)
“Your 20s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...”
– Kyoko Escamilla (via athousandtimessover)
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OMG WHAT
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ihavebeensherlocked:
everysongahiteveryhitasmack:
David Burke played the initial Dr John Watson in Granada Holmes
Here he is with Jeremy Brett.
He has a son called Tom Burke.
Tom was in the Film Third Star with Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict is BBC Holmes
HOLMES AND WATSON
WAIT WHAT? THAT IS AWESOME *w*
England has 5 actors.
See?! SEE?!
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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. ...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath committed suicide 49 years ago today.
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Guardian Q&A: Martin Freeman
Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Martin: Being with someone you love, with a family, and doing the work you want to do.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
Martin: That there is a hell and I’m going there.
Q: Which living person do you most admire?
Martin: My mum.
Q: What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Martin: Self-loathing.
Q: What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Martin: Self-importance.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment?
Martin: Sitting next to someone I’ve publicly cussed.
Q: What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Martin: I look like the man in the moon.
Q: What is your most unappealing habit?
Martin: Picking my toenails.
Q: What makes you depressed?
Martin: Not sleeping.
Q: What is your favourite word?
Martin: ‘Please.’
Q: What is your favourite book?
Martin: Animal Farm.
Q: How did you vote in the last election?
Martin: For Socialist Labour.
Q: How will you vote this time?
Martin: Not Labour.
Q: Which living person do you most despise?
Martin: Ricky Gervais.
Q: What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Martin: Being easy-going. The world is full of easy-going, bungee-jumping twats; we don’t need any more.
Q: Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Martin: ‘Mother of Christ’, ‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph’ - and I swear a lot.
Q: How often do you have sex?
Martin: I’m having it now.
Q: What keeps you awake at night?
Martin: Thinking about which shoes I am going to wear the next morning.
Q: How would you like to die?
Martin: Peacefully and old.
Q: How would you like to be remembered?
Martin: As a really nice man and the best actor ever.
Q: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Martin: Get the fuck on with it.
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“No Republican here should kid themselves about it: the greatest leaders in...”
– Newt Gingrich, January 5th, 1995 (via ajonesco)
Well okay then
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– Bill Hicks (via angelinthesnow)
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“Because if Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that nobody deserves to live in...”
– Harry Potter Alliance on LBGT organizations
(It’s one of my favorite shirts!)
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I swear every single British actor is in...
Seriously, I might just make a chart that connects everyone. It will be as large as Picasso’s Guernica and take twice as long to create.
So. Currently watching Jekyll, written by Moffat, Dark Lord of All, and starring James Nesbitt, who I must admit, is bloody brilliant in this. Playing Jekyll and Hyde is a challenge for any actor and he does it so well. He will also be in The Hobbit with...
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research team, led by...
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