this is a great time of year except for one thing: my skin is blindingly, embarrassingly pale. not a pretty, smooth, freckly, pinkish white, mind you … my skin boasts that blueish tint commonly seen in skim milk.  so! until i get some sun, i’m pleased to report back to my pasty friends everywhere: this stuff works. i repeat: FINALLY. THIS FOAM STUFF WILL NOT MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A STREAKY ORANGE AND WHITE ZEBRA CENTAUR PERSON. it’s great. that is all. 

this is a great time of year except for one thing: my skin is blindingly, embarrassingly pale. not a pretty, smooth, freckly, pinkish white, mind you … my skin boasts that blueish tint commonly seen in skim milk. 

so! until i get some sun, i’m pleased to report back to my pasty friends everywhere: this stuff works. i repeat: FINALLY. THIS FOAM STUFF WILL NOT MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A STREAKY ORANGE AND WHITE ZEBRA CENTAUR PERSON. it’s great. that is all. 

+1 on that comment.  newshour: kqedscience: Floating Architecture: Finding Ways to Live With Rising Water “The Ark is a hotel by Russian design firm Remistudio and is meant to be self-sufficient. The transparent foil roof would allow light to reach plants inside, and the waste produced in the building would be converted into fuel. The cupola form is meant to be energy-efficient, and its shell basement with cables and arches is designed to distribute weight evenly to make it earthquake- and flood-resistant. ” Making this a featured comment: You make me regret that I am 80 and won’t be around to see this great vision of a new world.  Oh well, maybe the next time around.  

+1 on that comment. 

newshour:

kqedscience:

Floating Architecture: Finding Ways to Live With Rising Water

“The Ark is a hotel by Russian design firm Remistudio and is meant to be self-sufficient. The transparent foil roof would allow light to reach plants inside, and the waste produced in the building would be converted into fuel. The cupola form is meant to be energy-efficient, and its shell basement with cables and arches is designed to distribute weight evenly to make it earthquake- and flood-resistant. ”

Making this a featured comment:

You make me regret that I am 80 and won’t be around to see this great vision of a new world.  Oh well, maybe the next time around.  

pbs.org

Being funny is like any other artistic skill, but to wield it successfully requires outspokenness, unapologetic honesty, supreme self-assuredness, and an outright refusal to pander. And those aren’t exactly the traits we foster in our little girls. (Instead, we go with mistrust of other women, an extreme longing for expensive garbage, and the idea that being pretty is more important than being smart. Oh, here’s your toy, girls, it’s a fake baby that poops fake poop into a fake diaper for you to fake clean up. Have fun “playing.”)

Hey, Men, I’m Funnier Than You

- Can I just say: THIS IS SOME TRUTH TELLING! Here’s my experience: Most people — especially other women — don’t expect you to be funny — actually, they almost refuse to let you be funny — until they have had time to analyze you and sort you into the “quirky weirdo girl” box. Sometimes it takes forever to happen or just doesn’t happen at all. 

This has happened my whole life. Thankfully, it has happened to others, too, and it turns out that I have some hilarious lady friends.   

jezebel.com

naked face eating

so, listen. as a “digital native” (i hate that term but whatever)  i didn’t really think i had any personal boundaries when it comes to viewing disturbing things on the internet.

as it turns out, i do: blurry “naked face eater” photos make me uneasy as hell. (this coming from a woman who just the other day i google image searched “flesh eating bacteria.” i don’t recommend it.) i think it’s the cocktail of a lack of humanity/utter madness/sad drug use/morbid curiosity around it that makes my stomach turn. i have been avoiding my various news feeds as much as possible until the public at large latches onto a Time cover or a Kardashian marriage and the frenzy shifts. 

anyway, discovering these truths about myself and the world — what it takes to meet my limit, the fact that i have said limit, being reminded that PEOPLE WHO EAT FACES exist — all of those things make me really bummed in a way i can’t really explain. 

Medill girls (Taken with instagram)

Medill girls (Taken with instagram)

Memorial Day cookout carnage + @kellenhenry in a Nancy Grace shirt (Taken with instagram)

Memorial Day cookout carnage + @kellenhenry in a Nancy Grace shirt (Taken with instagram)

Watching petals fall off one by one. (Taken with instagram)

Watching petals fall off one by one. (Taken with instagram)

Fleeeeet week (Taken with instagram)

Fleeeeet week (Taken with instagram)

Notice Ruth’s sly little face. Fleet week. (Taken with Instagram at Brinkley’s)

Notice Ruth’s sly little face. Fleet week. (Taken with Instagram at Brinkley’s)

i will fall for this every time