January 2012
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December 2011
11 posts
Christopher Hitchens: the top 10 quotes from the... →
youmightfindyourself:
1. When asked if serious illness had changed his view of the afterlife, Hitchens replied: “I would say it fractionally increases my contempt for the false consolation element of religion and my dislike for the dictatorial and totalitarian part of it.
“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and...
poemendings:
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along.
- Rumi (tr.Coleman Barks)
November 2011
10 posts
WatchBarry George at East Austin Studio Tour 2011
GAWS: Rick Owens' 10 Rules of Style →
gaws:
1. I’m not good at subtlety. If you’re not going to be discreet and quiet, then just go all the way and have the balls to shave off your eyebrows, bleach your hair, and put on some big bracelets.
2. Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.
3. I’ve lived in Paris for six years,...
crazier than shirttails: Titles for my future... →
summeranne:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Wolf Parade
Too Many Colors Just Makes Brown
Useless Social Media Sites For Dummies
Captain Picard and the Death Penalty: A Study
How To Spend 100 Hours on a Mix Tape You’re Not Planning to Give to the Intended Recipient
SchlitterBahn-Voyage and it’s…
October 2011
8 posts
All the Single Ladies (The Atlantic) →
rutabagaparsnip:
psychotherapy:
“…In the 1990s, Stephanie Coontz, a social historian at Evergreen State College in Washington, noticed an uptick in questions from reporters and audiences asking if the institution of marriage was falling apart. She didn’t think it was, and was struck by how everyone believed in some mythical Golden Age of Marriage and saw mounting divorce rates as evidence of...
poemendings:
Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight, Out of the room that lets you feel secure. Infinity is open to your sight. Whoever you are. With eyes that have forgotten how to see From viewing things already too well-known, Lift up into the dark a huge, black tree And put it in the heavens: tall, alone. And you have made the world and all you see. It ripens like the words still in your...
Could You Forgive the Man Who Shot You in The... →
summeranne:
sayyes:
elmolikesthings:(via Instapaper)
“What would you get out of mediation?” Wahid asked him.
Bhuiyan’s voice wavered as he fought the tears. “I want to see him. I want to talk to him. I want to see that he is a human being. I need to show him that I am a human being, too.” The bailiff was now crying. So was a reporter sitting next to Paula Kurland, and a photographer from...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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“You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing...”
– The Egg (via aredridel)
May 2011
9 posts
