Rachael Prensner

mostly me with the occasional movie review

matchbooknu:

The book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The first sentence: “I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”
The bikini: Hanalei Bikini by Mikoh. Top $70. 

This is brilliant, but if you want to look smart at the beach, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to just bring a copy of Infinite Jest. I mean, I know it’s probably the world’s worst beach read. View high resolution

matchbooknu:

The book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The first sentence: “I am seated in an office, surrounded


by heads and bodies.”

The bikini: Hanalei Bikini by Mikoh. Top $70. 

This is brilliant, but if you want to look smart at the beach, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to just bring a copy of Infinite Jest. I mean, I know it’s probably the world’s worst beach read.

(via newsweek)

Paint fumes

shitmystudentswrite:

Graffitti is art, old people just don’t understand it. I wish I could take them to see real street art but they would probably die from paint fumes.

Bizarrely considerate.

stupidfuckingquestions:

Amy Poehler fangirling over Miguel! (x)

She’s so write about the record and this is an appropriate reaction.

(via 30rockasaurus)

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
— Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)

Gearing up for literary theory in the fall

(Source: larmoyante, via themonicabird)

What part of “shorn’t” don’t you understand?

Michael Scott (via zenhabits)

malapropisms=one of my favorite things in the world.

(Source: tvfanatic.com, via zenhabits)

She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. ‘Hello,’ I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me.
— Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell to Arms” (via thatkindofwoman)

Possibly the writer who talks the most about love using the smallest vocabulary. 

(Source: kingofcarrot-flowers, via findmeintheaspens)

Performance reviews

shitmystudentswrite:

On a more personal note, I think Churchill and Hitler were both good at their jobs (Hitler was a ruthless murderer, but besides that.)


Fair and balanced.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety.
It is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.
Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear….
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.
— I know the original of this is Spanish and more beautiful.

Paulo Coelho (via arcaninefire)

(via themonicabird)

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