May 2013
22 posts
Gawker’s fundraising campaign to buy the Ford video
Drugs can be great fun, but Rob Ford is very terrible.
The Second Part: On Waiting →
waystocookanegg:
These days when I get my period I crave a burger and fries. For the iron in the red meat and the salty carbs, maybe, but also for the immediacy of the meal and the ingrained comfort I associate, for better or for worse, with greasy fast food. This isn’t a…
My friend Teri wrote this and it is a really wonderful essay.
When people I know have babies or plan to have them...
My friend Ashlee made a Pinterest with all the things we remember growing up with in 1980s North America.
My horse and I currently have the same medical problem. Peas in a pod.
April 2013
21 posts
WatchAnother turtle. You can hear him eating.
WatchLook at this turtle. My dad filmed it yesterday morning.
One thing that has interested me for a long time is why exactly girls are so attracted to horses. More so than boys. While so many top riders are men, you hardly ever see boys at riding schools, you don’t see boys drawing horses in their notebooks or putting horses on every wish list they ever have or dreaming about them every day and every night the way girls do. I do not remember a time I...
Sleater-Kinney - Jenny
WatchRolling on the ground and making adorable sounds.
WatchHere is he is freaking the fuck out to the radio.
When we talk about leaving Toronto now it is not about whether or not we want to, like it was since we got here, but when we want to go. I would be disappointed if we were here in five years. Or even three. It would feel like a failure. But this place I want to leave is a place I know better than anywhere else. I think I’ve been on every street between the Runnymede and Victoria Park, south...
“This is a politician, after all, who never won the votes of more than a third of the electorate; destroyed communities; created mass unemployment; deindustrialised Britain; redistributed from poor to rich; and, by her deregulation of the C…ity, laid the basis for the crisis that has engulfed us 25 years later.
Thatcher was a prime minister who denounced Nelson Mandela as a terrorist,...
The magical saddle fitter came to look at the Optimum, watched me ride, re-flocked, watched me ride, re-flocked, and then watched me ride and re-flocked yet again, and now it’s perfect and I learned that Valor has a perfectly straight spine and that he hates saddle fitting and THE NIGHTMARE IS OVER AND I CAN MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE AND I AM NEVER BUYING ANOTHER SADDLE EVER AGAIN.
March 2013
25 posts
Valor was attacked by his so-called friend and has a piece of skin missing from his neck. He had four days off and his craziness upon returning to work created both terror and the most amazing extended trot we have ever ridden together. Flying! His half-passes were probably the best ever too, but that extended trot was magic. I hope I can make that again soon.
