December 2010
2010, you did me proud.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand (via ageofreason)
Am I the only one annoyed by this?
You know how some people disable the “Wall” on their Facebook profiles?
I think that’s such an obnoxious thing to do. It’s like, saying, “Hey guys, look how hard I am trying to seem like I am not trying hard at all; look what a minimalist I am! I really had to work at realizing I could even disable this thing in the first place and it’s my subtle...
On Gardening
I should do it more often.
There’s just something about dirt, man.
Hey guys, read this.
“Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions. We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments...
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I really really need to do something insane.
We’re talking multiple kinds of illegal.
Now.
We are an immigrant nation. The first...
- Jack Donaghy
constellation asked: ... or how we have a word for children whose parents have passed (orphans) and yet we do not have a word for parents whose children have passed.
HEY DO WATCH THE VLOG BROTHERS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LpHfPOM6GQ. Lexical gaps are the windows to my heart.
Also: see contranyms - a word that can be used as its own antonym ->...
HEY DO WATCH THE VLOG BROTHERS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LpHfPOM6GQ. Lexical gaps are the windows to my heart.
Also: see contranyms - a word that can be used as its own antonym ->...
Survey Says: Ana should be better investing her...
What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Here goes! In 2010 I : drove legally, applied to something actually scarily competitive and made it (more than once), left the state of Florida (way more than once), wrote a play, used the USPS for old-school reasons (a lot), walked several miles for lack of a car, tried a bunch of weird foods whose names I don’t know, and several...
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Survey Says: Ana should be better investing her...
What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Here goes! In 2010 I : drove legally, applied to something actually scarily competitive and made it (more than once), left the state of Florida (way more than once), wrote a play, used the USPS for old-school reasons (a lot), walked several miles for lack of a car, tried a bunch of weird foods whose names I don’t know, and several...
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Talisman by Suheir Hammad
it is written the act of writing is holy words are sacred and your breath brings out the god in them i write these words quickly repeat them softly to myself this talisman for you fold this prayer around your neck fortify your back with these whispers may you walk ever loved and in love know the sun for warmth the moon for direction may these words always remind you your breath is sacred words...
And she's off like a prom dress!
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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding,...
Joan Didion
Empathic Fatigue.
Shit my friends say:
Just realized I’ve slowly stopped eating pork. Am I preparing myself for the arrival of the Messiah?
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An archaelogist's eyes combine the view of the...
—Thornton Wilder
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In a perfect world, I would be a(n):
sailor, palm-reader, ballerina, wine-tester, mad scientist, folk singer/songwriter, Indiana-Jones-style anthropologist, village storyteller, cosmonaut, fossil hunter,
or, you know, your typical world-traveling mad sailing wine-testing dancing scientist (occasionally in space).
Blueberry-flavored Fridays (Day #12: Bullet your...
Today
was
a
good
day
throughout
Merry blueberry to all
and to all a good night.
Is there a word for 'brain digger'? Like gold...
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apidae asked: your tumblr is incredibly forest-y right now! yay!
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