February 2012
5 posts
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Gretel in Darkness, Louise Glück
This is the world we wanted.
All who would have seen us dead
are dead. I hear the witch’s cry
break in the moonlight through a sheet
of sugar: God rewards.
Her tongue shrivels into gas…
Now, far from women’s arms
and memory of women, in our father’s hut
we sleep, are never hungry.
Why do I not forget?
My father bars the door, bars harm
from this house, and it is...
Science Fiction Story | Chris Killen
I will meet you again in the future. It will be 100 years from now. We will be evolved. We will be larger. We will be gentle with each other. When I try to touch your hand, my hand will feel like water. Your hand will feel like a fish. We will be evolved in different directions. We will be so gentle and evolved we won’t even be able to lift our glasses to our mouths. We will just sit in a bar,...
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Jenny Kissed Me | Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
January 2012
17 posts
3 tags
pica
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
I sold my iPad tonight.
I never used the damn thing, and Mike has fancy video equipment with an optional iOS adjunct, so now it’s his.
Next month I’ll be replacing it with an 11-inch MacBook Air.
I will not be writing a 1,500-word blog post about this.
You’re welcome.
"There's literally no one in the world that I...
bartletsquotations:
Everyone, except Toby, laughs.
GPOY.
BIG NEWS: GOD LOVES HAIR – SECOND EDITION
vivekshraya:
In September of 2011, the first run of God Loves Hair sold out! Shortly after, I was strongly encouraged by friends to do a second run but was not prepared for the greatest push, which came from my parents. I unexpectedly received a cheque in the mail from them, without my asking, to help pay for the printing. This act of overwhelming generosity adds another beautiful...
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Berkeley vs Harvard
bartletsquotations:
JOSH:
You’re overreacting.
C.J.:
Am I?
C.J. starts moving towards Josh.
JOSH:
Yes.
C.J.:
As women are prone to do?
JOSH:
That’s not what I mean.
C.J.:
That’s always what you mean.
[They are now face to face.]
JOSH:
I really think I’m the best judge of what I mean, you paranoid Berkeley
shiksta feminista! [beat]...
“I hope that people in our industry realize that you’ve got baseball...”
– Tegan Quin
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Why The West Wing still matters →
Starting a West Wing tumblr in 2012 might seem like a strange decision since the show has been off the air for almost six years. But the show was eerily prescient about some issues, and dealt with them earlier than we faced them as a nation. There was a warning about how banks were handling money, how important privacy and freedom on the Internet would be in the coming years, and the pressure...
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December 2011
21 posts
“There’s nothing sexy about a man who values his fashion sense over his sense of...”
– Ainsley
4 tags
WatchThe Mountain Goats cover “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
I accidentally the whole 2 a.m.
One teacher's approach to preventing gender... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
Allison was biologically a girl but felt more comfortable wearing Tony Hawk long-sleeved T-shirts, baggy jeans, and black tennis shoes. Her parents were accepting and supportive. Her mother braided her hair in cornrows because Allie thought it made her look like Will Smith’s son, Trey, in the remake of The Karate Kid. She preferred to be called Allie. The...
Coming in just under the wire on 12 December, here...
“After being resurrected Friday night, a crucified skeleton Santa was decapitated on Saturday in Leesburg.”
Emmy the Great – Trellick Tower
The saddest song...
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Antilamentation, Dorianne Laux
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who killed the cook.
Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark,
in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication.
Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot,
the one you beat to the punchline, the door, or the one
who left you in your red dress and shoes, the ones
that crimped your toes,...
“The spirits reveal no great secrets to Ebeneezer Scrooge. They only reveal that...”
– Paul Bibeau
“There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with...”
– Todd VanDerWerff
“Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct;...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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“So what should we do during the [Community] hiatus? Well, I’ll be working. Doing...”
– I love Dan Harmon so much.
November 2011
15 posts
“The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of...”
– Chris Sims on Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism
1 tag
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist...”
– Alexander Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
“Engaging in a ‘debate’ with those who are not honest and who are not...”
– slacktivist
This is why I’ve given up trying to discuss issues of any gravity online. Whatever energy I spend forming a logical, respectful argument is inevitably wasted in the face of disingenuous bullshit. It’s exhausting, and after 15 years of banging my head against the same walls,...
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“If you @reply to me on Twitter and it’s a stupid joke, or a dumb retort, or...”
– The only thing I have that could be even loosely referred to as a “policy” regarding Twitter I stole wholesale from Derek Powazek.
Life’s too short to deal with people who think they’re cool for being a cock to a stranger. No one should be a cock to a stranger. Ever.
