Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

From Reuters:
Brain scans of people shown images of individuals they hated revealed a pattern of brain activity that partly occurs in areas also activated by romantic love, Semir Zeki and John Paul Romaya of University College London reported on Wednesday.

After three days of being a passenger in a car in the south-western Irish countryside, if I don’t have to see another farm in the next six months I would be perfectly happy.
Also if I could not see another piece of bacon or rasher or sausage or blood pudding for the next three months, that [...]

From Slate:
Most Internet memes have the lifespan of fruit flies. But there’s evidence to suggest fail is here to stay. For one thing, it’s easier to say than failure.[...] And there’s a proud tradition in English of chopping off the endings of words for convenience. Between Old and Middle English, many nouns stopped being declined, [...]

Watched Ran last night. I have an irrational fear of Chinese opera and Noh theater so when I first saw Lady Kaede in the film I was suddenly all, oh shit I’m fucked, my dreams are going to be all mental.
Season 3 of Friday Night Lights is on, too, and I realized today why I [...]

Siguro kasi pinanood ko ulit yung Rules of Attraction kanina. “All of our moves make up for the silence”. Atsaka ito yung favorite noisy angry morning song ko habang naglalakad papuntang opis.

Dude the truth is I don’t give a fuck about you now; not really. I value my friendships with your friends more than I do yours. I don’t really care about your life or how perfect it’s turning out to be. I don’t mean to sound  bitter or cruel; I suppose I do sound that [...]

So ang napansin ko dito sa bahay kung nasan yung apartment ko ay parang linggo linggo may laging iba ibang kotse na naka park sa front yard. Minsan pag madaling araw may naririnig akong lumalabas ng bahay, tipong bang ng door muna bago yung gate. So, ewan ko, ang suspetsa ko yung mga neighbors ko [...]

From Gawker:
The funny thing about a rebellious, anti-establishment man movie like this is that it’s actually the exact same thing as Gossip Girl—silly, aspirational garbage about grownups in kid suits—only funked up and dragged downtown to appeal to arty teenagers that will be saddened by the film (because they’ll never have that, never ever! I [...]