December 2011
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Dudes, I need help finding a poem/poet.
Four years ago, Colby & I had a punkish wedding ceremony at Spillage House, and at the last minute I found a collection of poems by a Russian (I think, or definitely Eastern European) poet with initials AP. Could’ve been Alexander Psomethingski-or-ov. Probably a “classic” that I should’ve known about but didn’t — it was a pretty big, comprehensive...
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“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the...”
– Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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C. & I went to his mom’s house for the holidaze, and Mom’s house is always comforting to me. It appears to be the kind of pristine suburban dream where you can’t touch anything and have to take your shoes off in the house, but to me it feels safe and cozy and reminds me that it’s possible to have a house that is also a home and not simply a temporary storage unit. Mom...
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“Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie … The pale,...”
– Willa Cather, from My Antonia (as quoted in Georgia O’Keeffe: a Life by Roxana Robinson)
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10 Ways to Love Others
ohapoeticsoul:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
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cyber-yardsale
Hey do you want some stuff? This stuff is in my free box. Eventually I will donate it to the appropriate locations but for now I have no means of transport so y’all should come by and take some of it off my hands. In fact, if you live outside of Athens and PayPal me a few bucks, I’ll ship things to you.
VHS tapes (some without cases): 12 Monkeys 2001: a Space Odyssey Ace Ventura: Pet...
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“Well, to begin with,
you might as well not apply for the job
if you don’t have...”
– Diane Wakoski, What I Want in a Husband Besides a Mustache (via grammatolatry)
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
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David Byrne's Journal: "You 'Da Boss?" Collective... →
David Byrne writes about collective creativity, ants, Occupy, free will, architecture, algorithms, anarchy, and other big questions.
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Stop the Internet, I Wanna Get Off
I want to write something all deeply critical about this trend of screencapping WordPad must speak to some generational notion of authenticity that I just don’t “get” because in my “old” age I read it as cold and artificial, and then somehow relate this to the magical thinking that photographing other expressions of physical text (a handwriting sample or even a...
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)
I sort of needed to read this this morning…
(via academiagirl)
This really reflects my personal experience. You couldn’t pay me to do my early twenties over again. What a shit show.
(via pandacatapus)
Yeah, I did this with my 20s. And I think that’s why...
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“Goddamnit, Hunter! What in the name of shit is wrong with you? There’s...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
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“You must accept the fact that if you choose
to hold the candle, the wax will...”
– Dave McKean, Cages [paraphrased; can’t locate the original]
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“The job of an artist is just not to forget.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
oh shit y’all, i just found my old website’s “inspirational quotes” page on the Internet Wayback Machine (circa 2003, my age 19)…please excuse my flood of nostalgia.
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“To survive in this fascist police state, … you gotta always be able to...”
– Philip K. Dick, from A Scanner Darkly
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“Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (via whylovememylove)
Who said the nuclear family was the best way to raise a child?
(via a-blog-called-everything)
I am sometimes sad to think that my future kids will likely be raised with only half of an extended family because my lovely family lives...
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“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
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New Words I Learned This Week
alterior motives
functionable
impactful
salesy
volumous
(2 & 5 are via classmates during an art critique;
3 & 4 are serious business jargon overheard at work;
1 is from a heated WikiTalk debate)
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Hello New Tumblr Friends...
It’s difficult to tell sometimes if you are real people that I know in real life! Please let me know if we know each other (if I don’t already know) because I like to follow especially people I know in real life. Also hello to other new Internet friends.
ANSWERS ENABLED QUESTION MARK?
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