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Rachel says:
This is Lola. Sheâs in her second year at Harvard, doing a masters in Business. Sheâs clearly on her way to a party of some sort - Iâm thinking her birthday party. I feel like she might have asked her friends for a small, appropriate party, before giving them a 35 person guest list and telling them sheâd âact surprisedâ. Sheâs vivacious and fun, and incredibly smart. After her degree sheâll move to New York and work semi-obsessively, so she can make enough money to retire early. Sheâs very driven. She also has an intense obsession with fashion; one of the reasons she looks forward to making money is that she can finally afford to splurge on all the clothes she covets. Sheâs less about haute couture, however, and more about finding fun or frilly outfits that make her feel excited to put them on. Forever 21 is her weakness. She loves dancing, and is constantly pressing her friends to try Zumba with her. She reads her horoscope every morning, and, if no one is looking, she eats frosting right out of the can.Â
art by Kora
Posted on January 31, 2013
There. Is. Going. To. Be. A. âBored To Death.â Movie!
YES YES YES
(Note from 2022 Rachel, I think this didnât actually happen?)
help! iâve fallen in front of a computer playing episodes of Sailor Moon and I canât get up!
This is really more of a tweet.
Rachel says: this is Margot (gingerbread) and Aemilia (eggnog). To me, theyâre very clearly university roommates. Theyâre both from Vancouver, but I feel as though theyâre going to school abroad somewhere, possibly the Netherlands. Being from the same place and meeting abroad cemented their friendship really quickly; Aemilia wonders if they would have been friends otherwise. Margot is outgoing and charismatic, and regularly performs numbers from âthe Pirates of Penzanceâ while drunk. She has a vague idea of being a CFO because it sounds both important and ambiguous, but she will likely marry a European stranger on an impulse and will spend a few years travelling instead. Aemilia envies Margotâs sparkling style, but is much loved for her own soft sense of humour, and her willingness to try new experiences. Although she might not look it, she is always game to try strange foods and new adventures like skydiving. She wants to be a baker, and own something fun like a trendy cupcake shop or a French Pâtisserie. Together, Margot and Aemilia are most often found shopping, going for pizza, or watching old romantic comedies on Netflix. Margot loves brown sugar, which she eats with a spoon, and she only ever reads the life & style section of the newspaper. Aemilia scours food blogs as part of her morning ritual, and has a thing for cotton candy.Â
Art by Kora
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via the Charlie Brown School of Dance
I love him just as much in this photo as I did when I was 14 and I had pictures of Jack Dawson all over my wall. He looks like an old Hollywood star in this photo, like Clarke Gable or something. I guess he is sort of our âmodernâ âold Hollywoodâ star.Â
Also I want to see this movie so much.
Buzzfeed Would of Course go on to Become a Highly Respected News Source (Hindsight in 2023)
For a long time, Iâve thought it would be my dream job to work at BuzzFeed. I mean, it wasnât really about BuzzFeed itself. Itâs more that Iâve always really wanted to be an Internet âcuratorâ, and BuzzFeed is one of the few sites that Iâm aware of thatâs successfully monetized the business of funny cat picture lists.
But today I read this, the Oatmealâs response to an article published by a staff writer at BuzzFeed. I love the Oatmeal website, I think Inman is a great writer, and a great comic. I was actually unaware of the ârape controversyâ that spawned the Jack Stuef article; I just read the comic, and thought it was hilarious. It was one of my favourite comics ever, actually, and I didnât find the last panel (now removed) unusually offensive - especially not by Oatmeal standards.
Sidebar: this is one of the things Iâve never understood about the Internet. I like the Oatmeal, so I read the Oatmeal. Things I donât like or care about - ultra-conservatism, sports, stocks - I donât read. If you find the Oatmeal so offensive, just donât read his comics! Why would you read them, and then get your knickers in a twist about the fact that they exist? The internet can be whatever you want. Just make that happen. Or go outside, or something.
All this is to say the Jack Stuef article is one of the worst researched, most poorly written things that has ever been called to my attention on the internet. I find especially baffling the repeated references to the Oatmealâs republicanism, since he is a very public Democrat.
Also, way to pull up some fake Oatmeal profile from a âsocial networkingâ site no one has ever heard of. Great move there. Did you have trouble finding his readily available verified social media pages? Or did you just want to ignore them because they didnât support your bullshit point.
Iâm surprised that there were no fact-checkers, no one to say âstopâ before this error-riddled article got published. But Iâm even more surprised I ever got excited about the idea of working for a place that would allow something so blatantly wrong to be published by a columnist. Poor job, BuzzFeed. If you want the Internet to look at your lists of cat pictures and cute animals, you should make sure youâre not also publishing âarticlesâ about something just straight up false.
definitelyraining: Whenever somebody tells me Vancouver has an amazing nightlife scene.
Pretty vegan cupcakes via DailyBuzz - Healthy Living
What the shit is this? Isnât the point of Cake in a Mug that itâs way easier to make than regular cake? What do I need cake in a mug mix for?
Yeah, of course I bought it. Duh. Shut up.