Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 21, 2009, 6:32 pm
The Olympics.Now we all know I kind of hate sports. But the Olympic Games are the home of some of the first world's most ridiculous visuals, and for that it is to be commended. Take, for instance:...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 18, 2009, 3:27 pm
I wanted to share a selection of electro-goth videos with you today, but the ones I had in mind are all unembeddable/nonexistent*. So let's just go with the boring old list format.Gebrauche Musik ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 14, 2009, 12:04 am
my love affair with ads is over. forget it. the damn things are criminal, carcinogenic and a noise violation. do i look like i'm joking? i can't even hit the shift key, that's how serious ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 11, 2009, 4:58 pm
i'm undertaking a study of bad penmanship and its effects on productivity. or vice versa.
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 11, 2009, 3:50 pm
Margaret Cho wouldn't hesitate, but many of us would.*how amazingly hot** your twitterfriend looks in dragthe shockingly horrible thing your twitterfriend just did to youwhat you're buying eve...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 9, 2009, 12:56 pm
I've been watching too much TV lately, that's probably why I haven't blogged in ages.Speaking of TV, I want to say I've been really confused by my feelings about those new Levi's a...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Nov 1, 2009, 1:53 am
Tonight, I saw the legs of some of the sexiest men in town, maybe the world.Oh my poor old maiden-aunt ticker. I lost years off my life. And I only had one beer.Hope you all had fun, too.
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 28, 2009, 5:26 pm
wow.hope you enjoyed that little mini-series from the family trip. it was a pretty good trip, really, but i always get, well, angsty, considering that family vacations are all about never being alone ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 24, 2009, 11:57 pm
...just when you think it's all aboutuncomfortable shoes,pretending to pray,romantic despair, andholding in your farts,comes that time at every good wedding party when the dj puts on Jump Around b...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 23, 2009, 1:31 pm
I am such a caricature"are you getting smarteror having more fun?"
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 22, 2009, 11:28 pm
What am I going to do on a family vacation if I'm nervous about depressing my immune system?Tea has already taken over parts of my life once dedicated to late-night weight gain. Now it's makin...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 21, 2009, 11:18 pm
just a thought, a draft toward a better self, one more small doomed theory. i'm fine, don't worry. oh look, Mythbusters is on.Wednesday, October 21, 200911:13 PMI feel ridiculously alienated. ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 20, 2009, 1:16 am
Let's Pretend. again.pretend you just got RELEASED FROM DEATH ROW.By the way, if you're NOT from one of the following countries-- AfghanistanAntigua and BarbudaBaham...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 17, 2009, 3:44 pm
The scenarios are endless! wizard duel with PG Wodehouse!(not pictured)repairing the ozone layer!complex maths!Yes, Demetri Martin:Superhero will bring good cheer and a go-getter attitude to any long...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 15, 2009, 11:04 pm
For more fun times on a boring workday, try blushing extravagantly during a brief interaction with a charming handsome man (or woman; but, in my case, man. Sorry, ladies).I'm so self-conscious an...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 14, 2009, 3:27 pm
I've got something ever so slightly on the deluxe side in the works for this blog but it involves scanning. Bleh. So I'm a bit behind but I haven't forgotten you.For now I'll share a f...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 8, 2009, 1:26 am
a Classical Music CD with a PARENTAL ADVISORY STICKER. no joke. it really has the sticker. "The Art Of The Bawdy Song"byThe Baltimore Consort & The Merry CompanionsReally, what more can I say? This is...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 6, 2009, 12:18 am
Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again by Paul YeagerHaha. I considered checking this out because I spent probably a good 2 minutes standi...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 5, 2009, 2:25 pm
To A Fat Lady Seen From The Trainby Frances CornfordO why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much?O fat white woman whom nobody loves,Why do you walk through the fields...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 4, 2009, 9:08 pm
In further optimism, today I was thinking along the lines of:Given adequate time(and surely eternity/infinity could be considered adequate)eventually human music, for example, will go through periods ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Oct 3, 2009, 5:32 pm
I'm going as an anaesthetist this year.I figure this costume will consist of the following:medical scrubs/labcoatand this pin:get it?
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 28, 2009, 2:15 am
I've been unaccountably annoyed by the trend of vocalists being in too many bands.The trouble with a singer who has a really distinctive style, which he/she uses on many different projects, is tha...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 26, 2009, 6:46 pm
lest i be accused that my purpose has been blunted...And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Nameby John AshberryYou can’t say it that way any more.Bothered about beauty you have toCome out into the open, int...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 26, 2009, 6:12 pm
SEX I can't tell which is the demon and which is the angel.
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 23, 2009, 6:13 pm
I discovered today that when you google Improbable Enjoyment, this man appears*:(image via wikimedia commons)John Kenneth Galbraith...well, "appears" in the sense of "is the primary search result," as...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 21, 2009, 9:41 pm
How to pass a weary hour in a job you sometimes hate: translate all your thoughts and actions into a 3rd person narrative. Bonus Points if you can construct a compelling plot/character arc by the end ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 17, 2009, 8:21 pm
I finished watching the BBC series Green Wing last night/early this morning.I think I am going to have to pass through all the stages of grief now that it's over. I literally just do not know what...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 16, 2009, 11:53 pm
Noticed a slight uptick in page views due to that McGregor excoriation. Shame that credible celebrity gossip is not my emphasis. Normally my opinions go blissfully unheard. But this is who I am.So any...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 15, 2009, 4:32 pm
The other night I had adult swim on in the background when, unforgivably, they put on that horrible Clone Wars animated series. I mean I assume it was horrible since the movies have been horrible; in ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 12, 2009, 1:12 pm
I volunteered with my local ACLU today.I like this form of desperation, I do. Normally I would never, ever, help anybody or do anything for free so this is a big step for me. But I've realized thi...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 10, 2009, 6:32 pm
Too Lazy to Work Too Nervous to Steal: How to Have a Great Life As a Freelance Writer by John ClausenThis book is far too anecdotal to be practical for my purposes.Maybe I'm spoiled by the clarity...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 9, 2009, 4:35 pm
yep, tried adsense and surprise surprise, i hate it.i must have messed up the HTML cause it only looks SUPER-OBNOXIOUS on my page. anyone know how to fix it?i guess maybe this problem will go away in ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 8, 2009, 7:09 pm
make phone calls i take twenty times longer to complete a task than the average person, if that task involves making a phone call.
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 8, 2009, 7:09 pm
Specifically Britain. I want to be the girl who ran away and joined the English.Or, in some respects, went back to the English. Though technically I suppose I'd have to chop myself up and reside s...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 8, 2009, 6:41 pm
I need to monetize this blog. at least until I have an actual career, I figure my job is to milk EVERY POSSIBLE TRICKLE of income so that I can one day move out of my parents' house and still keep...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 5, 2009, 3:32 pm
Has anyone yet made a movie about the World's Columbian Exposition? If not, why not?See also: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larso...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 4, 2009, 1:22 pm
What with the recent/upcoming release of two major works by Dave Eggers (What Is The What, and the film Where The Wild Things Are which is raising the pulses of my collective generation every time we ...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 4, 2009, 12:04 am
I figure I will now unveil Improbable Enjoyments' brand-new annex: Rachel's Repository Of Prompt Poetrywhich is where the poetry will go.so far there hasn't been a whole lot of it but yest...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Sep 3, 2009, 11:32 pm
Dancing With Cats: From the Creators of the International Best Seller Why Cats Paint by Burton Silverbarring some extraordinarily sad circumstances, simply put, this book cannot fail to cheer you up.c...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 29, 2009, 1:30 pm
Here's my two million cents on Inglourious Basterds (I say this because I can never, ever, keep these filmic opinions short).You know what? At the end as I was leaving the theatre I had this stran...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 29, 2009, 1:17 pm
Journals by Kurt CobainMy rating: 5 of 5 starsthis book. is REALLY. REALLY. FASCINATING. who knew?It helps if you're also a struggling artist/musician, or just someone who keeps a tortured account...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 27, 2009, 8:33 pm
Russian Futurism. What is it? What does it mean to me?Partly it means that, in spite of the fact that my parking permit recently expired, forcing me to ride a bike or spend most of my wages on parking...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 26, 2009, 12:20 am
I have decided that tomorrow will be the start of a whole new, less-desperate, less-stubborn life.,'*.;**!insert fairy dust here!**;.*',I think part of the breakthrough was finally finding som...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 25, 2009, 12:00 am
...OF THE DAY!Lykke Li - Time Flies(I wish)
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 23, 2009, 11:54 pm
The first time I saw Ethan Hawke's Hamlet* I thought it was fairly mediocre (one has to say 'fairly mediocre' as it just won't do to be too emphatic about mediocrity). The acting was n...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 23, 2009, 1:31 pm
There's a movie called Happiness. From the start a wise person will be unnerved by such a title.I was just listening to Stephen Fry's latest audioboo about happiness - the happiness to be foun...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 23, 2009, 1:05 pm
the last track I 'loved' on last.fm was this hotness:School of Seven Bells - "Half Asleep"
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 17, 2009, 8:38 pm
Just applied for financial aid so's I can get some kind of useful schoolings. I hate filling out forms.Now I want nothing more than to be drinking beer and relaxing with Nora the cat.Thanks to thi...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 16, 2009, 6:49 pm
Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-Punk to Indie and Everything in Between by Leslie SimonFor those of us hoping to understand 21st century music and its movements/la...
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Rachel L. posted an article on Improbable Enjoyments - Aug 15, 2009, 1:20 pm
It's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but no violence and no arses!?Thanks to Stephen Fry on twitter for this gentle bit of truth.
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