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Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/1582140658

ellebelle — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:37:39 -0000

The text on the front page is messy, darker and a different font and when
viewed in the dashboard it shows the formatting language (um...I have no
idea what this is called). I'm using Firefox, maybe this is the problem?

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/1432366063

ellebelle — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:49:50 -0000

I feel like I should reply to this but I'm not sure what to write, You're
welcome isn't appropriate because I didn't even have a new picture but you
know how I am with time and I have been saying this over and over in my
head, don't forget Mills' birthday, it is in October and sitting at my desk
today repeating it to myself I realized this was the day and so I am tempted
to apologize for it being so small.

Gosh, this is such a small gesture.

You have been one of the best friends that I have ever had. I remember once
saying this to you and you replied that you didn't think it was true because
I didn't seem any happier than I had been before but that wasn't what
mattered or does matter, what is and was important is that I am better for
having had known you and for having been your friend even if on the surface
I still struggle in the same old ways.

I often think how remarkable you are and I admire you for so many reasons,
mostly that you always try to do right by the people you care about, even
when it isn't easy or convenient, even to those who don't hold a large part
of your heart. It is easy to speak of your mind and your many talents and
your personality and sense of humor because they are so exceptional but
above all else it's your heart and compassion and generosity that make you
such an extraordinary person.

I'll stop here, the tears welling in my eyes being a signal that this has
become too sentimental.

Happy Birthday Mills!

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/1314074406

ellebelle — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:53:14 -0000

Yeah, you like to see the creative behind the scenes, the work before the
great masterpiece?

I wish there was a queue that was a real queue, or maybe I should post in
the middle of the night, where I can edit publicly in private because I'm
not sure what I like until it is there.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/1207342232

ellebelle — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:54:08 -0000

Fat Frickin Chance...I'm four years away from a logical half-life and you
just left college!

#butthanksforthesentimentanyways

Re: I’m a bad writer

ellebelle — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:39:34 -0000

Ok, here we go:
He has a dick, of course he's gonna call you out.
It wasn't rude, just a little shocking that I have aged SOOO much in the
last five years.
Ask your dad, he knows what color my hair is, yo
I can't shave my head because I won't have anywhere to hide when I am
embarassed

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/1092199635

ellebelle — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:45:56 -0000

I learned my ABC's from you! and what I can't make up for in words I can
make up for in smiles and pinches (could you imagine me as a sales person,
not wanting to engage but being so competitive that I wouldn't want to
lose...I'd be fucked.)

Re: People die. Their burdens don’t.

ellebelle — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:39:03 -0000

Call me yo, I'd be happy to tell you.

The Things They Carried is (not past tense) very much affecting.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/660651751

ellebelle — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:49:26 -0000

Why thank you!

I'm following in your footsteps and your hippie-do with less-no blow dry
mantra!

Re: from the (not so)sweet mouths of babes

ellebelle — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:33:51 -0000

Did you tell them the bad words? Sometimes I catch myself being too
honest (or what I can imagine is being too honest but usually ends up
being totally prudish by most standards in the end).

The conversation ended with the babe saying stupid was a bad word and
I nodded, still slightly in shock from the first word, and then he
asked if stoop was a bad word and just like that, we pulled up in
front of school.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/472480452

ellebelle — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:20:13 -0000

You did with this comment, thank you Erica!

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/440342925

ellebelle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:45:29 -0000

Sigh.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/421212303

ellebelle — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:59:40 -0000

Oh Ellen! This is so nice, really truly sincerely, thank you

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/385586866

ellebelle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:30:28 -0000

Yes! Wednesday I felt like we were forsaken, possibly forever, Thursday was
a resurrection and today is so glorious; two days of sunshine and blue skies
feel like paradise!

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/381997788

ellebelle — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:13:33 -0000

There are too many points: you didn't remember saying this when you read it in my post; you didn't remember saying this days after you said this; I couldn't find the essay you thought it might have come from; you said this about your girlfriend and you still don't remember ever saying anything like this; I confused Peter Attenberg for Peter Altenberg; there was another man involved; I don't like to publicly admit we are friends because: you don't know what my children look like despite being being friends for a very long time; I had to publicly shame you into following my on twitter; you think I am a yankee; you, like some of the worst men alive, also think that women talk to much about food.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/374829138

ellebelle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:56:42 -0000

Ok, you win - this made me snort laugh.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/371514526

ellebelle — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:21:54 -0000

This one isn't mine!

For the millionth time: Oh. My. God. I thought we were friends!

Re: http://langer.tumblr.com/post/361209827

ellebelle — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:59:00 -0000

Matt, I apologize, I should have been more careful with the tone of my comment because it wasn’t my intent to be political. I was disagreeing with the use of the word consumers because the majority of U.S. purchasers are not wealthy or elite (and with Mac sales not making up more than ten percent of the net U.S. computer purchases I think it’s safe to say that those concerned with new Mac products and applications are not a majority of consumers) and I think if we are calling people out than we should use the proper names.

Politically, I’m not in agreement with your response; I don’t think that it is unjust for people to command billion-dollar empires but I don’t think it is just for children to die from lack of food. Fair and just are a luxury to talk about but also a waste because they’ll always exist, the world will always be this way, it’s the nature of life. People are hungry in the shadows of these empires but they were hungry before them and they will be hungry afterwards. The disparity of wealth is so immensely large that I find it almost entirely impossible to wrap my mind around it but closing the gap would do little to alleviate suffering on a whole because it’s inevitable, it abounds, it’s part of the human condition. If there wasn’t one billionaire hording power and comfort at the expense of others there would be another one. It’s also true that hugely complex and deeply layered problems are not solved with singular solutions and in fact, simple solutions often expound the problems.

I sympathize with you. I think that we should grant a majority of our considerations to people and not things. I think you have a good heart. I think that once someone has experienced true suffering than it makes it impossible to ever turn your head completely away to that kind of pain again; to not recognize it and to feel it shudder deep in your bones but with that said we all do it everyday on some scale. We are surrounded by hungry people, desperate people, people who are disenfranchised, disengaged, and forgotten and I think that the best we can do and the most many of us can hope for is to channel our efforts into making smaller impacts that ripple throughout humanity by reaching out where we can and by doing the best by our neighbors as we can.

Re: http://langer.tumblr.com/post/361209827

ellebelle — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:02:24 -0000

Matt! Really? December's national unemployment rate was 10%. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that government spending on food stamps will rise to $50 billion this year.

I'm willing to bet that for a majority of current consumers it is a luxury to think about the location and processes by which their food is grown.

Re: http://beautifulordinaire.tumblr.com/post/357300526

ellebelle — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:10:13 -0000

Really?! I just woke, slightly worried, at 5am to do research and this gave me a head start. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Re: Everly Veda’s Birth Story. I’ll start this story... - Dear Baby

ellebelle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:12:30 -0000

This was so beautiful, tears streamed down my face, thank you for sharing such a meaningful and intimate experience.

Congratulations! xoxo

Re: the beautiful and the ordinairy

ellebelle — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:56:54 -0000

Kate Rose is a nice alias; I feel like it fits you really well.

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

ellebelle — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:55:20 -0000

Ba da dum!

What is that sound that the drum plays when the joke has been delivered? Other than silence...I'm all to familiar with that sound and the accompanying awkward stares.

Whatever! This isn't the point. The point is that you should forget the novels and pursue comedy. You and your sister could switch. Like a movie. Except not.

Oh fuck. I wish I didn't have to attach any identifying information to this comment.

Re: the beautiful and the ordinary

ellebelle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:24:14 -0000

I'm laughing and coughing, coughing and choking, laughing and coughing thinking about you in Florida, all of it, the whole thing, the insults, the slander, the hippie hostel with the community living...it was the best. Except for that time that you lied about what you were reading.

Re: heaven spent

ellebelle — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:43 -0000

'Everyone is going to unfollow us simultaneously and I don't care, we make me laugh!

Re: Reason one thousand and two I am grateful for my cat allergy

ellebelle — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:21:27 -0000

Seriously, you're the best.