February 2012
Thinking Thoughts
Kind of obsessed with @thinkingcatalog the parody twitter of Thought Catalog, which posts fake article titles to poke fun at the banal self-indulgence of writing in the internet age. I even made a few of my own:
Disney Princes I Have Lusted After
I Floss Twice A Day And Other Lies I’ve Told My Dentist
Arguments I Have Had With Cab Drivers (In My Head)
Vegetables I Am Still Unwilling To...
lieslieslies asked: Move to California already, sunshine girl.
elisabethdonnelly asked: Caroline, you have great taste, what do you get the 30 yr old dude who is bookish (but has many books), and has everything? I feel like I want to encourage his crafty, wanna-be woodmaking side, but I really don't know.
Anonymous asked: Can I ask you how you managed to move to New York? I feel like you've already said. I'm saving to move to either Chicago or San Francisco (obviously San Francisco being the pipe dream since it's crazy expensive). How much should I save? Is there a good estimate?
Anonymous asked: More pictures of Caroline in her swimsuit pls.
kateoplis:
“The weirder strain of criticism concerns authenticity. People seem to feel that Del Rey is trying to trick us, though it’s impossible to figure out exactly what that trick would be, as we are dealing with an entertainer and her audience, not a naturally fractious relationship. Detractors cite a variety of presumed conspiracies, some involving the influence of her father, Rob Grant,...
“Alright, let’s make an agreement. A) We’ll make an early start tomorrow...”
– The Darjeeling Limited (via)
Anonymous asked: Caroline! Help! I have a blind date tomorrow afternoon. We're meeting up to get coffee. I need ideas for something to wear. I want to look cute and put together without looking like I'm overdoing it since it is just coffee after all. Can you help a girl out?
“If you don’t wanna date me, that’s fine. I get that. But...”
– Workaholics
takesamuscle asked: I used to enjoy writing but somewhere along the line I lost my steam. A few months ago I came across your blog, & I fell in love with everything you wrote, long or short, and the passion you wrote with. It made me feel like I was the girl making the long commutes to Manhattan, who went dancing & whose heart was too heavy. It inspired me to start writing again, because even if it...
“Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I...”
– The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
“what if i lived in a world where i could just go to sleep whenever i felt tired.”
– well, alright:
Greatest wish.
Anti-Social Media
I have a twitter now. I don’t really know how to use it.
Is this a thing that you also do?
If so, follow me @CaroJarvis.
We can be tweet friends. I will twitter so many things at you.
Science
I didn’t do very well in physics. I actually can’t even remember if I took physics. I must have, right? Maybe not, because I’m pretty sure I’d remember learning the MOST IMPORTANT LAW:
No matter what, when you are at the laundromat, your most embarrassing pair of underwear WILL fall out of the basket and onto the floor the second anyone handsome glances over at you.
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all...”
– Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That” (via pinkhotel)
More on Vacation
The cruise.
The cruise was interesting and hilarious and cheesy. There were paintings on the wall of ballroom dancing polar bears. There were Botox parties and bingo. There were lounge singers and bad comedians and men in suits trying to sell you gold jewelry and liquor. There was a magician. He had a unicycle.
It quickly became apparent that Kay, Sarah, and I were basically the only people over...
Anonymous asked: If you're feeling creative, care to help me design a seafoam and peach dressing room? You've got such a beautiful aesthetic.
Caroline in the Kitchen
I know everyone’s all excited about the super bowl and whatever, but I think you should know that I just made myself a life-changing grilled cheese sandwich:
-peasant bread
-manchego cheese
-roasted garlic onion jam
I’m literally still chewing and I had to stop and tell the internet about it. We are all winners today.
Anonymous asked: You give such great fashion advice to girls, so I was wondering if you could help me, a 22 year old guy. I'm (too) tall, kinda skinny, and although I do try and make an effort with what I look like I'm generally fairly unsuccessful. So if you could suggest something for me to wear to classes/work/nights out, I would literally love you forever and ever.
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Things I Have Said While Lounging On A Pool Deck:
“Wanna go to the chocolate buffet and then go down the water slide?”
Cruisin'
I’m back!
Here are a few of the (many, MANY) photos I took on my trip, just to make sure you are all super jealous, and also so I can continue to relive it all weekend.
January 2012
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You (via travels-with-charley)
“Put a few words together prettily and it’s possible
to fall in love.
Move your...”
– Missy-Marie Montgomery, Arrangement (via grammatolatry)
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (via lethifold)
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via dissentients)
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“Very little grows
on jagged rock.
Be ground.
Be crumbled,
so wildflowers...”
– Rumi (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As...”
– Cornelia Funke (via adessive)
What 20-Somethings Want
You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when they’re drunk, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy restaurant, a mentor who can tell you what the hell to do with your life, a reliable internet connection, a...
Things Not To Tell 15 Year Old Me
At 25, you’ll still be having crushes.
You’ll still be horrified by the idea that your crush might FIND OUT YOU LIKE LIKE HIM.
You still won’t be able to touch the man you have a crush on, or even look straight in his eyes for more than three seconds.
You will still be having trouble using your words around anyone you want to impress.
You’ll feel exactly as stupid...
“My battles as a writer are battles with that part of myself that thinks I’m...”
– Mary Karr (via thebronzemedal)
Caitlin Rose - New York
“So I got lost on...
