you're slow to learn

November 10, 2010 • 32 notes • cajunboy

There’s something jarring about the whole experience if you’re not familiar with the culture. With the colors, the people, the noises, the smells, all assaulting your senses from every direction. It can be overwhelming, or it can sort of feel like a dream.

This is true of any immersion into a foreign culture—or at least any culture worth immersing yourself in—and it’s definitely true of any trip to Louisiana, where you meet people you’ve only seen caricatured in movies, eat foods you didn’t know existed, and hear words that sound like French and English combined and then sent through a wood chipper, punctuated with a thick southern accent just to make good and certain that it’s all completely indecipherable.

But that’s Louisiana, and we’re talking about LSU football here. And instead of the acid trip you’d imagine of a trip to backwoods Louisiana, a weekend immersion into LSU football was more of a rational high. Still a completely foreign world, but it that wasn’t quite as insane as I’d pictured. It left me in awe, yeah, and it made me a little bit jealous, too. But mostly, it just made me want to come back to Baton Rouge for every fall Saturday for the rest of my life.

Out of breath and walking home with $30 worth of Rasing Canes chicken fingers, I explained to a friend, ‘It’s not even that it’s as crazy as I pictured it. It’s just… Why can’t I do this every weekend?’

Andrew Sharp for SB Nation on going to Baton Rouge for an LSU football game. (via cajunboy)

I WOULD LOVE SOME CANE’S RIGHT NOWWWW

October 29, 2010

read this. now.

October 27, 2010

I’ve Got Your Counterpoint Right Here, Marie Claire

I’ve been sitting at my desk ignoring my novel which is due next week. Instead I’ve been compulsively checking whether or not Marie Claire accepts my offer to write a counterpoint to this article.

(No, seriously, you have to read the article first.)

(Yes, the whole thing.)

(I’ll wait.)

Then it occurred to me I don’t need some magazine I don’t even buy to give me a platform. I’ve got my own right here.

So I shall attack this article much like I attack a piece of cake – layer by layer.

You know, because I’m fat and eatin’ cake is what we fatties do best!

(In between bouts of self-loathing and feeling lonely and swilling corn syrup straight out of the bottle, of course.)

The second I read the title Should Fatties Get a Room? by Maura Kelly I knew I was in for some fair and balanced perspective. The article opens with Maura’s editor posing this question: “Do you really think people feel uncomfortable when they see overweight people making out on television?” which… seriously?

This is what everyone talks about in editorial meetings at Marie Claire?

Huh. No wonder I subscribe to Traditional Home instead.

But maybe that’s because a house is the only thing that fits around me.

You know, because I’m fat.

October 29, 2010

divinesecrets:

sunsurfer:

Autumn Switchbacks, Chattanooga, Tennesse

photo from joisey

I need a vacation to the mountains this year. Who’s with me?

YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!

October 27, 2010 • 8 notes • divinesecrets

divinesecrets:

Today in my job is better than anyone elses: we got a keg of Stella Artois and painted pumpkins for Childrens Hospital. Someone painted this auburn pumpkin, so I had to come back with a Bama one. Great day.

in response to kelly: it’s the toe-thumbs

October 27, 2010 • 282 notes • recyclart.org

lickystickypickyme:

For LP:

Library information desk made of recycled books, at the TU Delft, The Netherlands.

kelly you should make a headboard like this

(via lickystickypickywe)

October 27, 2010 • 10 notes • divinesecrets

divinesecrets:

As it happens from time to time, I am missing this friend today. Next week it will be three years since he left us. It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long but at the same time it seems like I haven’t seen him since this picture was snapped.

I’m not sure what’s going on with many of the gals I follow here today, but it seems clear that you’ve lost someone as well. I’ll tell you here that it does get better. It ebbs and flows. The shock wears off. But you never forget. And you never stop loving. And you never truly stop missing them.

I’m here for all of you guys.

last night, i was just shooting some darts in the middle of top shelf. then this song (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hotactioncop/feverfortheflava.html) (i am stupid and dont know how to do links, and don’t care) anyway, that song came on. it so suddenly and randomly reminded me of foster that i started crying. but for the first time, it wasn’t a sad cry. it was an “OMG, i am so happy of the reminder of my friend” cry. and that was an exciting moment.

October 27, 2010 • 31 notes • cdn2.sbnation.com

brklyn:

shorterexcerpts:

Because it’s Hate Week, and this picture will never fail to put a smile on my face.

Dit-to.

October 20, 2010 • 3 notes • Flickr / piscesfish

loveyourcrookedneighbor:

i can’t count the times that upon telling someone i am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument i never made. (i have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

-jonathan safran foer

October 20, 2010 • 4 notes • divinesecrets

Ya-Ya Queen: Places I can't wait to check out in Birmingham

divinesecrets:

I’m just shy of my one month anniversary here at the new job, so things are finally starting to slow down just a baby bit. There’s still football season which keeps my weekends pretty jam packed, but I’m hoping sometime soon we will find time to start exploring our new city.

The Birmingham…

if you go see that giraffe without me, we will not be friends anymore

October 13, 2010 • 1 note

JAAAALLLLAAAAYYYYYYY this is for you

October 5, 2010

i have always loved m.c. escher

but it seems like noone ever really knows who he is.

go check it out

October 5, 2010

this picture is for katie

October 5, 2010

Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just old Luke, and Luke's waiting on the judgement day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won't you stay and keep Anna Lee company?"

October 5, 2010

well, that’s a pretty cool story.

October 5, 2010 • 5 notes • divinesecrets

divinesecrets:

Thanks for yalls advice on how to make my cubical feel more homey. (Even you, Brooke, who suggested I tie-dye the walls. I don’t even know how to start to make that happen.) I brought in lots of pictures and hung them right above where my laptop sits (important papers are pinned slightly out of sight, as it should be.) I also put together an inspiration/photo board that I need to hang soon. Blake is also relieved as this means all the crap he didn’t want cluttering up the apartment (coaster from San Antonio, old silver K initial, flower painting I made at Sips N Strokes, a sampling of the 50 framed photos I rbrought) can just go in my cube where I will love it all day long.

i notice i am only in one picture.

i made a new tumblr with my new computer.

SURPRISE!!!!!!