November 2009
12 posts
Vertigo
ekstasis:
Describe a scene from your daily life. The sky has come down around us in a shroud. Use plain language. It is dark. An old man comes toward me. He is smoking — no — it is cold out and that is his breath. He walks a big dog. Eliminate all adjectives. Slowly he coughs into his sleeve. And adverbs. What could be the reason for my fear now that he is just a man with a dog? Think of...
Old Men Who Dress In Women's Clothing, Worship A... →
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copycats:
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What...
ekstasis:
Soul Coughing - True Dreams of...
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Mike Doughty - Fort Hood
…My vote’s a...
“Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can’t kill the...”
– David Sedaris
ha!
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October 2009
120 posts
maybe time will decide
the restless spirit...
"Watching coins sort" is the new "watching paint... →
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12 Places To Go If The World Goes To Hell →
pegobry:
johncarney:
Not afraid to be servicey to paranoids.
“So far as he is serious, the artist is continually tempted to sever the dialogue...”
– susan sontag - the aesthetics of silence
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;...”
– H. L. Mencken (via syntheticpubes)
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS →
Rich People Things, with Chris Lehmann: In Praise... →
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“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t...”
– Joe Strummer (via stevenebowman) (via adamwhite) (via shutupinternet) (via quote-book)
“A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a meat-eater in a Prius.”
– Michael Pollan (via @nichcarlson) (via soupsoup) (via kindacarsick)
“There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via janettt)
“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via gatekeeper) (via janettt)
“I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life …...”
– Calvin and Hobbes (via janettt) (via quote-book)
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Real Rebels Risk
claytoncubitt:
“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew...
