Sonia Saraiya
what kind of magpie keeps this blog?

writer on the internet and at @soniasaraiya

cloysterbell:

I Forgot Why I Just Opened This New Tab : A Memoir By Me

Posted at 9:34 am on Monday, May 20, 2013 with 533 notes
"Because I only talk a good game, I only dream in my head, but do you know what I want in reality? That you all go to hell, that’s what! I want peace. I’d sell the whole world for a kopeck this minute, just not to be bothered. Shall the world go to hell, or shall I not have my tea? I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via morphinith)

Posted at 9:16 am on Monday, May 20, 2013 with 467 notes
"step 11. go to three other pawn shops, each packed with old engagement rings inside jewelry cases like a shiny graveyard. you’ve never been to pawn shops before. […] you decide pawn shops are the most depressing places on earth. they look and feel like a theatrical venue for dream death. watch a high school kid pawn his trumpet. ponder his reasons."

little thousand: how to sell your engagement ring in 13 steps 

Posted at 7:51 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013 with 20 notes
Posted at 10:09 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013 with 196 notes
Natasha VC: crotch rot

natashavc:

is this just something that happens to jeans? where the crotch blows out around the upper inner thigh area? or is this something that we ladies who don’t live off a diet of Marlboro lights, green apples and coke zero ( MISS U, THIGH GAP) just live with (are u excited for cat marnell’s book so am…

Feel. This. Feel.

Posted at 10:25 am on Thursday, May 16, 2013 with 130 notes
"[N]o big break is going to make it easier to get up in the morning and write. What makes it easier is trusting your own instincts and noticing that you have giant ideas percolating in that herd-animal brain of yours, you just have to dig in and find them. After you find them, you have to write something terrible that eventually, through a lot of editing, over and over and over, becomes something great."

Ask Polly: Jesus, My Struggling Writer Friends Never Shut Up! | The Awl (via kfan)

Posted at 10:20 am on Thursday, May 16, 2013 with 23 notes
godsgrief: the odyssey, old west style, courtesy of vee’s fantastic brain

godsgrief:

the odyssey, old west style, courtesy of vee’s fantastic brain

Posted at 10:33 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 with 61 notes

but really

Posted at 2:08 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 with 30,092 notes
webecomelegend: Blah

webecomelegend:

Blah

Posted at 1:21 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 with 18,625 notes

New Girl, Season 2

Whoooooooo’s that girlllllll IT’S SONIA

Posted at 1:16 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
meganwest: citysleep: micropolisnyc: Carry on. …great! Remember when New York used to randomly smell like maple syrup and everyone thought it was a wind pattern test for something like this?

meganwest:

citysleep:

micropolisnyc:

Carry on.

…great!

Remember when New York used to randomly smell like maple syrup and everyone thought it was a wind pattern test for something like this?

Posted at 6:55 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013 with 180 notes
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."

When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Posted at 4:01 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013 with 21,290 notes
indigenousdialogues: Pakistani contemporary artist, Ayesha Siddiqui

indigenousdialogues:

Pakistani contemporary artist, Ayesha Siddiqui

Posted at 11:29 am on Monday, May 13, 2013 with 33 notes
new-aesthetic: “An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label” found at http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg, via @shyhoof.

new-aesthetic:

“An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label” found at http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg, via @shyhoof.

Posted at 11:29 am on Monday, May 13, 2013 with 145 notes
Posted at 10:58 am on Monday, May 13, 2013 with 17,273 notes
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