January 2012
9 posts
“Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous...”
– YUP. (via langer)
“Why does sex play such an important role as a metaphor of moral panic? Sex seems...”
– Anna Clark, Desire: A History of European Sexuality, pg. 10
I had to quote almost an entire page of text, but I thought it was such an amazing insight, a way of looking at the moral panics that so often erupt in North American politics, over everything from HPV vaccinations to abortion, that I had...
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Endings
The hospital’s dining room was full. Maybe seven or eight senior citizens - all but one spoke English. She only knew Italian and the ensuing barriers were pretty apparent. My grandmother is an isolated woman at that hospital. I always wondered why she never even had to learn English in all her years here. Florence (who is hilarious, but accidentally; and I don’t mean that we laugh at...
“We must educate your feeling and persuade you to experience it like a man and...”
– Robertson Davies, The Manticore
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“To live is to battle with trolls
in the vaults of heart and brain.
To...”
– Ibsen
Coming & Crying: January 25 at Kelly Writers... →
meaghano:
comingandcrying:
January 25, 2012 6pm Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us (Melissa and Meaghan) at Kelly Writers House to talk Coming & Crying, writing, feminism, and ladybiz. There will be a reception and there will be books!
If you live in Philadelphia, come hang out with us at the Kelly Writer’s House, which as I understand it is a very...
Auld Lang Syne →
2012 is going to bring the biggest life changes for me, it’s hard not to think of the magnitude of it all. Feeling neither hopeful, nor hopeless; excited, nor anxious; fearful nor fearless - or perhaps all of those things at once - I will instead say, simply, that when I reflect on my past, and 2011 in particular, I will remember it for the people in my life who have made a world of difference.
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“Your feet will find the road easy if your heart will walk with them.”
December 2011
16 posts
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Growing up
There’s a song by Mumford and Sons that goes: “And my head told my heart ‘let love grow’ but my heart told my head ‘this time no’.” I came across it and realized that maybe even a few months ago, I would have identified with this line. I even have a lengthy post detailing a classic ‘head vs. heart’ battle, of sorts. Honestly, though, it all...
“I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change...”
– Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson
Outdated, sure, but sometimes old songs really sink in at the most (in)convenient of times. On what is probably a related note, I’m home.
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Yep. About time.
I seem to be a magnet for this sort of thing… and this time I was only tangentially related.
There are a million relevant quotes I could post about this, and there are a million things I could say about it. I could analyze him, the situation, or maybe why he could possibly think that death threats and violent posts are appropriate. Instead, I’ll just turn the page on this and remind...
“Part of the cruel genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make all activity...”
– The Resentment Machine (via langer)
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Eh bien, je continue
Did I have the same look of bewilderment on my face? What are we doing, exactly?
Well, what are we doing? I sometimes wonder if instant sexual gratification is enough for us to bare all; to stand in front of someone literally naked, vulnerable, with no layers to shield us from judgment.
In most cases, at least for me, the answer is No. What motivates me is the possibility of finding a...
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“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
– Zadie Smith (via pavorst)
This is actually part of the reason why I blog.
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“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
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abstractescape:
Every man’s memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley
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My Amethyst Heart: The Poems I Have Not Written →
keciasamethystheart:
-By John Brehm I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems
I have not written would reach
from here to the California coast
if you laid them end to end. And if you stacked them up,
the poems I have not written
would sway like a silent
Tower of Babel, saying nothing and everything in a...
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A wave is a wave
I guess I’ve known for a while that I would never be in love with him again. But I could never articulate a reason; could never come up with the language to express why.
And today, very suddenly, I knew.
At the end of the day, while I may deeply respect (and to some extent, idolize) those with their heads in lofty ideas, those struggling to define and relate to the world around them,...
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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via sol-psych)
November 2011
15 posts
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“Have I not wandered intoxicated through the universe of shapes? Yes! I have seen...”
– Frank Herbert (via sol-psych)
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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan (via sol-psych)
The Very Last Calvin & Hobbes Comic
chachama:
princenebula:
At some point, we all have to grow up.
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“Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via sol-psych)
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such...”
– Carl Sagan (via sol-psych)
“This isn’t what I want.. but I’ll take the high road. Maybe...”
– Criminal Minds (lol sorry, I know this isn’t the most highbrow of sources but like… shit was nice, OK?)
“You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. You are here to risk...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via sol-psych)
“Here I became aware of the world’s tenderness, the profound beneficence of all...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Beneficience (via sol-psych)
“In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the...”
– Marianne Williamson (via sol-psych)
October 2011
21 posts
How old is this blogger? →
findthepony:
entropyforever:
uncutting:
mycoffeemuse:
The AgeAnalyzer thinks http://mycoffeemuse.tumblr.com is written by someone 18-25 years old.
Not even close…
The AgeAnalyzer thinks http://uncutting.tumblr.com/ is written by someone 18-25 years old.
Ding ding ding!
(GenderAnalyzer correctly guessed I’m male, btw.)
The AgeAnalyzer thinks http://entropyforever.tumblr.com is...
Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul; Skin Is a Window... →
cdnabroad:
Cool article about a technique that allows scientists to test the effects of different schizophrenia drugs on neurons derived from patient skin cells!
“One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet ones’ whole life is complete at...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (via honeyforthehomeless)
One of my favorite plays ever. It’s one that will really stay with me forever.
“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod...”
– ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou (via dfierrobleu)
Why we should use the Oxford Comma
hipster-clown:
thoseglassdungeons:
A direct quote from The Times newspaper, talking about a Peter Ustinov documentary and saying that:
“highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector”.
….OH GAWD. LOLZ
THIS
“It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night...”
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (via awritersruminations)
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Light my fire
My last post, where I lamented being an island, was a bit unreasonable. When I don’t connect with people, when I leave the walls up, when I’m cold, detached; when I just don’t feel like talking to someone more - well that’s pretty normal.
If I’m honest with myself, the walls really aren’t up for everyone. Some people I’m automatically friends with. The...
Islands
zebrathoughts:
Yes, you’re an island, but you’re not alone, you’re surrounded by others, and the land you’ve outgrown. Separate from that land, but still within reach, it’s your actions that count, when you’ve lost all your speech. And the seagulls will visit, just to make themselves known, but there are islands around you, you’re not on your own.
The Thread: Views to a Kill →
cdnabroad:
An interesting piece, stemming from the recent death of Anwar al-Awlaki:
Are all assassinations created equal?
Also make sure to read the first few comments (particularly the second one for a different opinion).