What happens when L.A. Armenians are in town:
Cousin 1: I’ll prepare the nargileh (hookah)
Cousin 2: I’ll get the good Arabic CD from the car
Cousin 3: I’ll get the cognac
Me: I’ll get….my cookies…
December 2010
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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
—Robert Frost
Sing us a song, you're the piano man: How to be a 20-something: An informative guide →
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Be really attractive. Your acne is gone, your face has matured without having wrinkles and everything on your body is lifted naturally. Eat bagels seven days a week, binge-drink
and do drugs: you’ll still look like a babe. When you turn thirty, it’ll become a different…
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“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost.”
—Nicole Krauss (via loveyourchaos)
“When life gives you lemons ask for salt and tequila”
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“Within three years of its initial release, classifying any intense friendship as “totally a Harry Met Sally situation” had a recognizable meaning to everyone, regardless of whether or not they’d actually seen the movie. And that meaning remains clear and remarkably consistent: It implies that two platonic acquaintances are refusing to admit that they’re deeply in love with each other. When Harry Met Sally cemented the plausibility of that notion, and it gave a lot of desperate people hope. It made it realistic to suspect your best friend may be your soul mate, and it made wanting such a scenario comfortably conventional. The problem is that the Harry Met Sally situation is almost always tragically unbalanced. Most of the time, the two involved parties are not really “best friends.” Inevitably, one of the people has been in love with the other from the first day they met, while the other person is either (a) wracked with guilt and pressure, or (b) completely oblivious to the espoused attraction. Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less. But When Harry Met Sally gives the powerless, unrequited lover a reason to live. When this person gets drunk and tells his friends that he’s in love with a woman who only sees him as a buddy, they will say, “You’re wrong. You’re perfect for each other. This is just like When Harry Met Sally! I’m sure she loves you-she just doesn’t realize it yet.” Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives.”
- Excerpt from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned.” —Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned.” —Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”
“The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.”
—Julian Assange, 2007
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost circa 1923
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When tumblr wasn’t working:
Having to resort to facebook:
Tumblr finally starts working:
“Religion is like a penis. It’s fine to have one. It’s fine to be proud of it. But please don’t whip it out in public and start waving it around. And please don’t try to shove it down my children’s throats.”
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It’s 26 degrees outside. I can’t wait to be in California for Christmas, but I’ll be so stoked to come home to snow :-)
early 2010
Silence Is Not a Solution: Armenians March Amid Increased HIV/AIDS Infection Rates →
ianyanmag.com
Groups in Armenia marched for World AIDS Day/Courtesy of PINK Armenia
While at least 56 countries have either stabilized or decreased rates of new HIV infections, rates in Armenia have…
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Tegan and Sara, “Nineteen”
This never gets old.
