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I hope 2014 is the year of Motown-themed dance parties
Mickey’s Monkey by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles I’m obsessed with this song right now after hearing it sampled in Lumdi by by Camp Lo. Which do you like better?
PHAMETRICS // 20
(Photo thanks to Vinita Israni) What a busy month! End of my first semester of grad school and end of the year! There was so much free food during finals week. Cookies flowed like water. I think 2014 has to be a good year: fourteen is one of my lucky numbers! My birthday is on the 14th.…
“Make your habits gold”
I finally made that habits post I promised you! Some of it might be old hat for my two blog fans, but if you’re curious, check it on out Medium!
Something sweet: Country apple dumplings
Terribly-easy-but-fancy looking recipe. Not particularly healthy (not at all), but I have reduced the sugar a lot from the AllRecipes original and thought it was still sinfully delicious. It’s one of the most popular recipes on the whole website. Give it a try with these simple alterations:
‘This Apt Aint Big Enuff’ video
Shameless isn’t the right word. Proud plug for my friend Shanna’s independent movie she made for a contest. She won third place! My very talented friends. My dear friend Katie also got her screen play, Whole Lotta Shakin’, in the Strawberry One Act Festival in New York. If you’re feeling generous–which I know you are–consider donating to her indigogo…
5: Paradoxical ways I’m using my break
Paradoxical because, I’m working during my break. I am somewhat relieved to find out that, even without classes all the things I want to do take up so much time that it truly is hard to do them when school is in session and it’s not just me having poor time-management skills. But also, I’m…
“Tracing Skylines” – Skiing in Detroit’s abandon buildings.
One of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. But as you’re watching you see them pile cement blocks, and broken pieces of wood with a thin layer of snow on top to build a ramp to jump over a pile of broken glass….and I’m thinking that I would literally cry if I…
What I know now // 011
What I’m reading over winter break…
So. Excited. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (non-fiction, neuroscience) What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction, social science) How to Do Things with Language by JL Austin (non-fiction, language philosophy) Things That Make Us Smart: Defending human attributes in the age of machines by Donald Norman (non-fiction, design) Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (fiction, Russian classic) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki…