January 2011
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Top Ten Modern Delusions - Francis Wheen →
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If You Love Something You Have To Protect It -... →
What Is Normal? - Psychology Today →
tamburina:
Diagnostic labels are proliferating, and mental disorders seem to be annexing ever more territory. At the same time, many people with diagnosable conditions are forging their own original takes on what’s normal.
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water →
: Derealization →
tamburina:
Derealization is an alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems strange or unreal. Other symptoms include feeling as though one’s environment is lacking in spontaneity, emotional colouring and depth.
The detachment of realization can be described as an…
National Geographic Magazine: Descent Into Paris →
nationalgeographicmagazine:
Visiting Paris’s vast underground network is essentially interdit (forbidden, for those of you who were not French majors). But a handful of legal entrées provides a glimpse of this underbelly of darkness, where history, mystique, and ghoulish underpinnings collide. By Barbara Noe Photograph…
Jamie Lee Curtis Taete - Partying With Porn Stars... →
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home →
Hello, Saturday morning. What sleep-deprived, self-destructive ridiculousness will you bring?
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FANTASTIC MR FOX MADE US A MIX AND HE’S GONNA PLAY... →
One quarter of names on Zimbabwe electoral role... →
Just like in The Simpsons…
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Super Noodles at Wasa Noodle Bar →
Anyone fancy a late night noodle escapade?
The Young Vermeer - History, Stories, Questions -... →
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What the science of human nature can teach us →
jayparkinsonmd:
Occasionally, you meet a young, rising member of this class at the gelato store, as he hovers indecisively over the cloudberry and ginger-pomegranate selections, and you notice that his superhuman equilibrium is marred by an anxiety. Many members of this class, like many Americans generally, have a vague sense that their lives have been distorted by a giant cultural bias. They...
James Buchan on Gertrude Bell →
opticaldelusion-deactivated2012 asked: I've been meaning to ask what you got at the charity shop...
I was never afraid of the dark. Then one day I grew up,
All...
…I can smell is vinegar and old cigarettes. This is not particularly pleasant.
“It’s too easy to have everybody take care of us. But you can be helped to...”
– Professor Ellen Langer
Harvard University
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Better...
…a fence at the top of the cliff than an ambulance at the bottom.
I
lost my bloody phone. Goddam. Drunkenness is a beeyatch,
But...
…actually my head does hurt a bit.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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…Coca-Cola - your ‘Vitamin Water’ is full of sugary evil. Do I care if you are ‘disappointed’? Not really. Be honest about your silly beverages.
So...
…this is going to be interesting. I’ve not slept properly in months, I haven’t eaten anything in almost a week, and I’ve decided to fix all of this by cracking a bottle of vodka open at…what is it, nearly 6 o’clock in the morning. i’ve seen some stuff downstairs in the local charity shop that i quite like the look of and seeing as how i’ve...
Ugh...
…drinking a whole jar of pickle vinegar is really not a good idea.
Sticks and Stones →
More sadness.
amypond—:
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AWESOME.
Yay!
Watch Me Disappear →
Oh man, that was actually quite depressing…
Is...
...is Christmas yet?