October 2010
1 post
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
August 2010
1 post
It’s me. I’m here. I love you. Stop...
July 2010
2 posts
You know when you’re in an awkward situation with someone and you know it’s not going well and you’re just bidding the time until you can make a clean getaway? I realized that I felt that way for the first 17 years of my life, with my family.
With family, though, there is no clean getaway.
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are...”
– Alain du Botton, The Art of Travel
May 2010
1 post
What is this that I live with?
the constant pressure to perform
i must not be too much the Other
i live here because the conformity that is asked of me
takes some of the pressure off of me to put pressure onto me
ughsughts
June 2009
21 posts
The chaotic banality of life.
I just spent two minutes of my life watching this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4muob_zoom-into-a-tooth_tech.
the thing that blows me away is how apparently solid, “real” objects are made up entirely of space between such microscopic objects. How the perception of solidity is entirely manufactured by the needs of our consciousness and perceptions.
Yet: the self-organizing...
Listen
My bad habit is making mixes to which no one... →
and now I will stop ending sentences with the dangling modifier.
The next person who says “peace” to me, I’m going to cut them.
Hmmm.
I’ve got my browser set up so that I can only get onto facebook at certain times of the day for no more than 50 minutes—no stalking or drunken facebooking. Now I just drunkenly tumbl.
Daily Debate: Easier to Hate?
whymyexsucks:
Is it easier to have an ex you absolutely hate or one that you still like but it just didn’t work out with?
Easier to just plain hate the fucker. No having to explain WHY it didn’t work out.
Yeah
So I just had my third bicycle fall as an adult. It was while trying to stop my bike while cycling drunk. To buy cigarettes. I hope no one in the convenience store saw me lying prostrate with the cycle on me.
“Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may...”
– Larkin - This Be The Verse
“What that means is that you have contact with many, many more people, but each...”
– Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships : NPR
My totally corny dance mix up, and 8 tracks. ... →
David Carradine’s Legacy of Shame at Racialicious... →
When Sex Leaves the Marriage - Well Blog -... →
North Korea Tweets: Letter from China: Online... →
The Conservative Underground →
Yes! To find the future hate fucks!
May 2009
7 posts
“As a socialist, I have always said that the market can’t regulate itself,” she...”
– Norway Thrives by Going Against the Tide - NYTimes.com
8tracks | auraline | Something about you makes me... →
Hopefully this keeps us both from an uncomfortable dry-hump session with a mostly unwilling partner.
Now to smoke a cigarette.
Really?
If you’re going to write my name on my wall on Facebook, spell it right. It is just all over the fuckin’ thing.
FRIDAY!!
March 2009
1 post
She got sober and now she's boring! | Salon Life →
I’ve got a mild addiction to Cary Tenis but why the hell does he get so many letters from 20-somethings? What is wrong with the world?
February 2009
2 posts
“How much should I train? Basically what you are trying to do with your training...”
– The Top Six Beginner Questions
I’m considering competing in a triathlon. Maybe smart, maybe stupid. I don’t know.
Awr fuck
I forgot about tumblr.
I WILL WRITE SOON, AND DAMNIT!
December 2008
20 posts
Balls and brains: Intelligence predicts sperm... →
(via everybodycares)
Lunch time
I probably shouldn’t look at porn while eating my lunch, especially after a run and before an afternoon of hanging out with kids.
Obama: "I Can't Grow Facial Hair" →
everybodycares:
On Wednesday, Barack Obama addressed Bill Richardson’s shaven beard, stating “It was a mistake for him to get rid of it. I thought that whole Western rugged look was really working for him….we’re deeply disappointed with the loss.”
But perhaps the disappointment was more personal than the president-elect let on. In a September 20, 2006 article in The Hill about how voters...
everybodycares:
Midnight Lullaby - Tom Waits
Nine months, no pussy.
It’s been nine months since I’ve touched a cat. In Korea, the cats are feral, eating mice and garbage. They’re all over the place but terrified of people. Today, on a walk back from a yarn store, jauntily swinging a bag full of deep-fried mondus, I had a close encounter with a cat.
The brown tabby tom stood outside of a flower store. “Mrow.” He said, swinging his...
foreword
gnomechomsky:
srsly:
tarts:
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is the one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
—Joan Didion
This is from her introduction to...
An intimate gathering of bank CEOs in 2002…
moetkacik:
“I would resign rather than be expected to know everything that’s going on in my company. It’s just not tenable,” said an unnamed financial-services CEO. “That’s what I have a board for, that ‘s what I have a chief financial officer for. I simply can’t be held responsible for what all of those people do.” And yeah, Hank Paulson was there.
“The brain is so easily tricked, they say, precisely because it has spent a...”
– Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real - NYTimes.com
Moby fucking Dick →
“[Beer] regulates the bowels, prevents constipation, and becomes in this way a...”
– United States Sanitary Commission, quoted in this excellent New Yorker essay on craft brewing. (via superhamburgeramerica) (via robot-heart) (via everybodycares)