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Someone came to see me in the hospital after my car accident and said, “Why should this happen to you?” I replied: “Who do you have in mind this should’ve happened to?” All my experience says that life is tragic, but not in the sense of meaning “hopeless.” Life is tragic because you are supposed to rise above tragedy, not because life is pointless or futile. Things of great weight “come heavy”…The lessons we learn, the wisdom we acquire, all come from this recognition. The nature of experience is heavy. So we shouldn’t spend all our energy running away from the truth. This is why you cannot explain why there is suffering. It’s there—you must recognize it, and engage it.
— Chinua Achebe in the Village Voice, read it in its entirety here. (via beautifulordinaire) (via beenthinking)
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Solid Advice

acehotel:

From Lucien, 6, in the mezzanine drawers at Ace Hotel Portland.

 I’m taking Lucien’s wise advice.

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permalink Eden Prairie resident, armed with gun, chases off tree trimmer

stuffaboutminneapolis:

A tree service worker hired by the city of Eden Prairie to remove a diseased tree faced a woman with a shotgun who told him to leave, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court.


When the worker went to the house on Tuesday, he rang the doorbell twice and got no answer, the complaint said. He went to the back yard to find the tree, which was marked with orange paint, and found that the letters “F U” also written on the tree.


As the worker started to size up the tree, Sisak came out with the shotgun across her body and asked him what he was doing, according to the complaint. When he said he was with the city to remove the tree, she told him to leave and followed him as closely as 15 or 20 feet, it also said.

 First I laughed. Then I frowned. She’s clearly a nutcase.
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Random guys at The Strip Club bar asked me to call their friend, Bob, who was waiting for them at the Liffey, and say hello. Bob sounded cute. In my mind he’s perfect.

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Seventeen-year-old Ohio teen Daniel Petric killed his parents when they refused to allow him to play the Halo series of video games. The teen’s lawyer said Petric was a “typical 16-year-old boy” obsessed with the game trilogy, which he played 18 hours a day when he could. After the murders, he fled the house taking only one thing with him — the Halo 3 game.

A 17-year-old Adrian, Michigan, boy killed his parents over taking away his cell phone and Xbox 360 as punishment after an argument. After the murders, Marshall Sosby called 911, sobbing, and relayed that his mother had killed his father and then killed herself — by shooting herself in the back of the head. The report of the incident indicated that this boy showed no remorse.
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Let’s just add these to my list of reasons.

(and several more similar stories at Women in Crime Ink.)

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Oh. Yes.

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permalink frightened: jewdar: friendlyatheist: mikesova: savagemike: 9gag: What you can get/do with $3M Instant reblog.

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jewdar:

friendlyatheist:

mikesova:

savagemike:

9gag:

What you can get/do with $3M

Instant reblog.

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permalink liquidchroma: minusmanhattan: World Famous Footed Pajamas! No joke, a colleague of mine received a pair of these in the skull pattern from a vendor. Want!

liquidchroma:

minusmanhattan:

World Famous Footed Pajamas!

No joke, a colleague of mine received a pair of these in the skull pattern from a vendor.

Want!

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permalink stuffaboutminneapolis: Dusty’s Bar, Minneapolis by Me The first annual Groundhog Day Bash at Dusty’s was a wonderful time. The power and beauty of the Dago Sandwich was able to bring people from all corners of the Twin Cities to Dusty’s Bar to bask in the glow of Italian sausage goodness. How good is the Dago? I just realized it this morning (after shaking the Grain Belt cobwebs from my brain) that not a single person took a picture of their Dago sandwich. Everyone had a love at first sight, I need you in my mouth moment as soon as the Dago was placed in front of them. (wait…did I really just type that last sentence?) So what was the effect of the Dago on near strangers on a chilly night in northeast Minneapolis? Boomd made the trek from St. Paul and ate a Dago to provide her with the brain power to dominate her trivia league later that evening. Essbee came as well and you know what? She’s a vegetarian! So no, she didn’t eat a Dago but she did watch other people eat, and I think that says a lot about her as a person, and just how powerful the Dago is. What did Ericaaaaa have to say about the Dago? “It’s better than the Jucy Lucy.” Yeah, take that Southside. I’m not 100% sure, but I do believe Ryan’s Rapture started weeping quietly as he dabbed a napkin at the corners of his mouth. The Opie is at Dusty’s so much, he’s the mayor of the place on foursquare. Did I mention James Norton from the Heavy Table was there? Yeah he was. And what did he say to me on Facebook later in the evening? “Definitely awesome” A late scratch in the evenings festivities was Jucy Lucy enthusiant Ed Kohler, who had a plane to catch to Detroit all of the sudden, and was unable to attend. Huh. Now Ed is a great guy, and I know he travels quite a bit, but…Detroit Ed? Really? I have my suspicions that the pressure of seeing people swaying and dancing, and singing the praises of the almighty Dago may have been too much for him to take in. But fear not, Ed and I have plans to make his Dago experience happen and right now The Deets are being worked out. I would like to say thanks to everyone who came out, it was good to see you and I had a blast. And to the folks at Dusty’s, it was marvelous as always but I would like to recommend you set up some sort of Man v. Food challenge involving the Dago…..I would be the first to sign up. It was definitely delicious. Sadly, it did not provide me the brain power to bring my trivia team to victory. I’m pretty certain we failed marvelously.

stuffaboutminneapolis:

Dusty’s Bar, Minneapolis by Me

The first annual Groundhog Day Bash at Dusty’s was a wonderful time. The power and beauty of the Dago Sandwich was able to bring people from all corners of the Twin Cities to Dusty’s Bar to bask in the glow of Italian sausage goodness. How good is the Dago? I just realized it this morning (after shaking the Grain Belt cobwebs from my brain) that not a single person took a picture of their Dago sandwich. Everyone had a love at first sight, I need you in my mouth moment as soon as the Dago was placed in front of them. (wait…did I really just type that last sentence?) So what was the effect of the Dago on near strangers on a chilly night in northeast Minneapolis?

Boomd made the trek from St. Paul and ate a Dago to provide her with the brain power to dominate her trivia league later that evening.

Essbee came as well and you know what? She’s a vegetarian! So no, she didn’t eat a Dago but she did watch other people eat, and I think that says a lot about her as a person, and just how powerful the Dago is.

What did Ericaaaaa have to say about the Dago? “It’s better than the Jucy Lucy.” Yeah, take that Southside.

I’m not 100% sure, but I do believe Ryan’s Rapture started weeping quietly as he dabbed a napkin at the corners of his mouth.

The Opie is at Dusty’s so much, he’s the mayor of the place on foursquare.

Did I mention James Norton from the Heavy Table was there? Yeah he was. And what did he say to me on Facebook later in the evening? “Definitely awesome”

A late scratch in the evenings festivities was Jucy Lucy enthusiant Ed Kohler, who had a plane to catch to Detroit all of the sudden, and was unable to attend. Huh. Now Ed is a great guy, and I know he travels quite a bit, but…Detroit Ed? Really? I have my suspicions that the pressure of seeing people swaying and dancing, and singing the praises of the almighty Dago may have been too much for him to take in. But fear not, Ed and I have plans to make his Dago experience happen and right now The Deets are being worked out.

I would like to say thanks to everyone who came out, it was good to see you and I had a blast. And to the folks at Dusty’s, it was marvelous as always but I would like to recommend you set up some sort of Man v. Food challenge involving the Dago…..I would be the first to sign up.

It was definitely delicious. Sadly, it did not provide me the brain power to bring my trivia team to victory. I’m pretty certain we failed marvelously.

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slaughterhouse90210:

“One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination.” 
— Lorrie Moore,  Birds of America

 My new favorite blog of the day.

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