January 2012
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“In This World” - Moby
This has been...
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An experiment.
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“Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as if I were...”
– Frank O’Hara, excerpt from Meditations in an Emergency
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“Meaning and significance are assured only when our learning fits in with a grand...”
– Michael Wesch, “Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance”
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“The Sun Is Shining Down” - J.J. Grey...
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I NEED SOME ROLLERBLADES.
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Pascal's Wager →
We don’t need to be 100% sure that the worst fears of climate scientists are correct in order to act. All we need to think about are the consequences of being wrong.
Let’s assume for a moment that there is no human-caused climate change, or that the consequences are not dire, and we’ve made big investments to avert it. What’s the worst that happens? In order to deal with climate change:
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All poetry aside: "The poet has come back..." -... →
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The poet has come back to being a poet after decades of being virtuous instead. Can’t you be both? No. Not in public. You could, once, back when God was still thundering vengeance and liked the scent of blood, and hadn’t got around to slippery forgiveness. Then you could scatter incense and praise, and wear your snake necklace, and hymn the crushed skulls of your enemies to a...
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Early in the Morning - Peter, Paul & Mary
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Beauties.
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“I can resist anything but temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde
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The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart - Jack Gilbert →
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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient tongue has no...
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What a wonderful "to do" list. →
letitbe33:
“Be more forgiving. Substitute, “goodbye” for “I like your face.” Spend two nights a week not drinking to forget. Listen to your body. Listen to someone else’s body. Get limber, Don’t dog yourself to feel humble. It never works. Lift others up onto your back until you are sore. Write for yourself a movie that doesn’t end. Eat a churro slowly. Kiss your mother on the cheek...
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“If you did not have an emotional reaction to Where the Wild Things Are [movie],...”
– Buddy Wakefield
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Found this elsewhere, pass it on. Why ever not?
Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433
LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255
Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743
Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438
Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673
Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272
Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000
Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-439-4253
For what it's worth: my "ask" feature is always on.
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“flyPaper” - K-Os
Discovered this in...
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Henry (8) and Sal (10) watching "Marie Antoinette"
Henry: So what, you just like trade your daughter to another country to stop world war two or something?
Henry: They'd better not take that pug from the girl from Spider-man. Oh my GOD they did. I hate France.
Henry: I want a feather pen.
Sal: They are really heavy and hard to write with. You have to dip them in ink. They leave blotches.
Henry: You don't think I know that stuff? I tried to make a feather pen.
Henry: Is he wearing a wig? Why is a big butt dress supposed to be fancy? Everyone likes big butts. They cannot lie. This is where the song probably came from.
Henry: Instead of kissing at the wedding they should do the chicken dance.
Henry: Are there explosions in this?
Henry: Is everyone going to watch them go to bed? Are they dying? Okay is everyone going to go in their room every night?
Henry: Uhhh (boob shot)
Henry: Did they want them to have a kid their first night together?! Um, they kinda have to know each other first. Jeez.
Henry: I can't wait to go to France and eat pastries.
Me: They're just like the ones at the patisserie.
Henry: No. They're better. Mom, it's Paris.
Henry: Do they have to make a baby here at some point? God, that would be annoying. This prince is a weirdo. He makes keys.
Sal: Why is the King with that girl? That's not the queen? Ew!
Henry: What about that pug?
Henry: They said the princess is fooling around, but the prince is never sleeping with her.
Henry: Don't walk behind that huge dress! Peacock! CA-CAWWW!!
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“I have no technical advice or counsel to offer those of you who labor in this...”
– Edward R. Murrow
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“Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at...”
– Edward R. Murrow
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"Race, liberty and Ron Paul" by Michael Lind →
Excerpt (click on title for full article) :
By equating the Civil Rights Act, which expanded American civil liberty, with the Patriot Act, which reduced it, on the grounds that both are federal laws with sanctions, Ron Paul displays the moral idiocy of someone who declares that a person who pushes a little old lady out of the path of a bus is just as bad as a person who pushes a little old...
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Everybody knows about one form of competition among newspaper reporters, the so-called scoop competition. Scoop reporters competed with their counterparts on other newspapers, or wire services, to see who could get a story first and write it fastest; the bigger the story - i.e., the more it had to do with the matters of power or catastrophe - the better. In short, they were concerned with the main...
December 2011
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I just left Facebook. Again.
[ I start negative and cynical, but I go somewhere positive.]
I don’t care that you just got a pedicure.
I don’t care that you and three other friends I’ve never met are about to have a night on the town.
I don’t care what political candidate you have been led to support through your shallow, uninformed, and impetuous selection process.
I don’t care that you just...
10 of The Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever... →
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Someone just told me I’m more attractive that Don Draper. Is this real life? More to the point, should I be filing blasphemy charges?
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WOD
Row 2.5K 50 Pull-ups 50 Back extensions 200ft ladder climb 30 toes-to-bar
And some other random stuff.
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“I don’t want to be the best lover you’ve ever had, I just want to be...”
– Derrick Brown, Hot for Sorrow
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Let's get some interactivity going here. Ask me... →
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“Deliver me from Swedish furniture.
Deliver me from clever art…...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again....”
– Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
Thinking of a new blog title from this. “Fail Better” instead of “Conspicuously Discreet.” What do you think?
Update: I changed it.
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Throw Away Your Television - Red Hot Chili...
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