Tumblr, I have been neglecting you like mad, but this was way way way too awesome not to post, at least in my nerdy little heart.
Shaken & Stirred: Strawberry Death Match!
“Because in a world where whiteness and straightness are “norms” and males benefit from our patriarchial history, it is always the GLBTQ books, the queer books, the non-normative books that get caught in the glitches, the ham-fisted errors.” — Richard Eoin Nash - The Blog: Amazonfail:
“Microsoft is awesome at execution and shipping, genius at the science of software. Apple is genius at the art of software.” — Welcome to Ada Lovelace Day! :: An interview with Linda Stone
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I want to go. It’s in New Cannan! Surely there is a train.
the perfect desk? In the perfect place? (via baobee)
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lately i have been dreaming of furniture
Big Ten-Inch Record #21
Nerdy Girl — Nerdy Girl
(from the 10″ EP Nerdy Girl, No Life Records 1994)When I knew Cecil Castellucci, she was a grown woman who still slept on Star Wars sheets. (Not that I ever saw them, mind, but she told me about them.) A native of Montreal who went by the nom de twee-pop of Cecil Seaskull, she more or less was Nerdy Girl, who released a handful of records in the mid-’90s. This song about her childhood Star Wars fixation was her signature tune, but my other favorite was always “Single Bed,” from Nerdy Girl’s sole full-length, 1996’s Twist Her. After she dropped the Nerdy Girl moniker, Cecil released an album around 1998 called Whoever, and then we pretty much fell out of contact. (Frankly, I fell out of contact with a lot of people around 1998 — it was a really bad year.) I googled her just now out of curiosity, and I learned that she lives in Los Angeles now, where she’s had several young adult novels published. People tended to have extreme reactions about Nerdy Girl: I knew some people who found both the diary-entry quality of Cecil’s lyrics and her undeniably polarizing voice just the height of preciousness. Me, I have to admire someone who starts a project with a very specific aesthetic, stays true to it for as long as it’s viable and then retires it when she’s taken it as far as it can go.
–Stewart Mason
Cecil! Your band is on tumblr!
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
— Anaïs Nin
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