The Muddle

People are now using the iPhone’s predictive text feature to write poetry. Consider it just another accidental wonder of the digital age: http://bit.ly/1EjVnkH (via sideshow)

The Nightly Show covers the Baltimore Protests, April 28, 2015

Jon Krakauer: ‘If You’re Not a Feminist, Then You’re a Problem.’ — Medium (via rachelfershleiser)

I’d like to tell y'all that I am the cute little blonde in pigtails, but I’m not. That’s my cousin Julia and she’s still frigging adorable. Nor am I the crying infant. That’s my baby sister Rikki and it would also be an improvement. No, I’m not the husky fellow in the back row or the little fellow slinging a basket of eggs over his shoulder. Nope, I’m none of those. I am, however, the one the too-tight plaid dress with hightop sneakers who looks like she ate all her Easter chocolate in one sitting. (Probably because that’s exactly what happened.) I’d like to say that things improved – and they did, eventually – but boy, oh boy, it was long hard road. I went from this stylish mullet into a tightly rolled spiral perm and giant glasses, a look which was dubbed BY MY OWN MOTHER as “The Little Orphan Annie.” When I got boobs it helped balance me out a little, but that was several years later. My junior high school experience was punctuated by entering the marching band. High school was tolerable after I embraced my role as the FFF (funny fat friend.) But, I really peaked in college where I wore a lot of black clothing and way too much eyeliner and the poetic artsy fartsy liberal arts crowd thought I was the tits. I was queen of the journalism nerds and sassy gay men, and, yes, I was a benevolent ruler.”

YES!

There’s a  french TV show here in Canada that stole Hannah Hart’s idea of My Drunk Kitchen. The concept is that the host and a celebrety cook while they are drunk. They are planning to go to Cannes festival in order to sell the concept. If we could get Hannah to see this and to do something about it, it would be wonderful! The TV show is called Les Recettes Pompettes (basically drunk recipes) and here’s the link to one episode if you want a proof. They never credited her or anything and I think it’s a shame.

kvelling so hard rn

― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Nobody could tell us how much gun violence costs America, so we decided to find out.

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electricliterature and vol1brooklyn have united to put to rest the question that book fans have been wondering for ages: who makes the greatest tote bag of them all? We will have our answer on April 20th when Cosmopolitan’s book-editor-at-large Camille Perri, Saeed Jones (poet, Prelude to Bruise, BuzzFeed Literary Editor), Bev Rivero (Publicist at The New Press), and Dan Wilbur (Writer and comedian) judge the final contestants in the GAME OF TOTES. Along with the actual competition hosted by Jason Diamond and Lincoln Michel, Jen Doll and Kyle Chayka will be reading essays about tote bags, and there will be free wine and PBR while supplies last, all making this what will undoubtedly be the greatest night in the history of canvas.

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TDS, April 8, 2015

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