July 2012
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Handed in my two-week notice at McMaynerberry Khaki Pants and Khaki Pants Accessories today. Soon I will not be selling khaki pants and khaki pants accessories.
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We live in a place where our grocery clerk asks if she can keep our carrot stems for her friend’s chickens. God bless Carrboro.
My favorite part of the Olympics is getting really intense about the gameplay of a sport I knew nothing about ten minutes beforehand.
That guy totally jumped like a decimeter over the hogline before the snitch got through the wicket on the other team’s foul area.
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Amtrak's Insane $7 Billion Plan For Union Station... →
rodmanstreet:
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As someone who goes between DC and NYC on Amtrak at least once a month, my basic reaction is “WTF?” The last thing Union Station needs is a cosmetic renovation. It’s significantly cuter, cleaner, more functional than almost all of the stations along the Northeast corridor. If you want to spend the money to upgrade the trains and...
camiwillknow:
So much good news this week! Everyone in this apartment except for the dog is now employed by Carolina!!!
I am job.
Mitt Romney
Loves Anglo-Saxons.
Thinks the UK doesn’t have anything he wants.
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XXX Summer Olympics
NBC is trying to get more of the Hardcore Pawn demographic to watch the games this year?
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I don’t know who Big Sean is, but his ad on Pandora just sounds like he’s bored with himself and already regrets the decision to have everyone call him Big Sean.
“Hey listeners, uh… what are we doing? This is (sigh) Big Sean. Oh yeah, I guess you should listen to my station or whatever. I know you won’t, you’re listening to a station of bluegrass and mellow...
I don’t care that I’ve been wearing these pinstripe suit slacks from work around the house all day. They feel like goddamn pajama pants.
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The 11th gif in your folder is how you flirt.
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“Every time I look in the paper now there’s an article about libraries or...”
– My mom, who finally gets it.
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Today I taught my mom that you can search in Youtube.
You don’t have to close the tab, open Google again, search for the next thing, and look for which result might be a Youtube video.
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Upon your first perambulation of the city, Asheville will appear to be disproportionately peopled with the homeless, but a closer inspection will reveal that the dreadlocked masses huddled in the awnings and back alleys are all carrying laptops, and the impetus for their unwashed vagrancy isn’t a lack of shelter, but wifi.
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"Are you willing to relocate?"
If I wasn’t willing to relocate, why would I apply to the job?
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“To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and,...”
– Melvil Dewey (via walkyouhome)
He went on to say “… plus women should be fine at it because I don’t think librarianship will ever be intellectually rigorous in any way, and I can pay them half as much as a man. You could probably train a monkey or a foreigner to put things in...
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Major League Standing Around →
This is why nobody watches baseball anymore.
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Y’all, it’s been a shitty couple of months to be a North Carolinian.
I think we need to take a minute.
Once it gets under 100 degrees out, let’s all set out on the porch with a Cheerwine and a Krispy Kreme, maybe some barbecue of your preferred geographical orientation, put on some James Taylor, and mainly just be glad we don’t live in South Carolina.
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Andy Griffith and Doc Watson perform "Crawdad... →
Doc and Andy were both inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
