January 2012
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There is something to be said for rides that break and pouring rain. Like our...
– The Order of The Good Death
Today’s weather: 85% chance of nerd rage. Probably will start as light...
– James Nettum
The Crisis of Credit Visualized (by Jonathan Jarvis)
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate...
– Benito Mussolini
December 2011
17 posts
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all...
– Robert M Pirsig
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And...
– Ezra Pound
(via How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer scien…)
Shark Song →
Brilliant! And tragic, I think.
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the...
– Krisko Isackson
November 2011
8 posts
Until You Are Home Again →
A brilliant remix of my dear friend, @jacindae - on ccmixter.
monadologie:
I can’t even say this is a remix of me, it’s more just a really gorgeous sound collage that my voice happens to sort of be in.
She says:
“Yes, whenever men fear they’ve become Too Soft, they...
– She
thingsarequeer asked: I LOVE YOU. <3
The Primary Rule of Ships and Castles:
Never piss off the Cook.
”I’ve half a mind, you know, to dismiss that Castellan of yours. Replace him. Damn bold, he is.” He said this late one night, leaning against the big head table.
The Lady considered a moment. “No.”
“No, Lady?”
“No, I should think you shan’t.” A pause, and she explains: “Cook likes him.”
...
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down in fogharty’s cove
I’m working on my Red Hood, tonight. I found a lovely little girl’s coat, the softest fur you could imagine! It’s going to line the cloak’s edges, and the hood. I have always wanted a lovely hood, lined with scrumptious plush! If I have enough left over (as I am dearly hoping) I will be able to make myself a muff, to match! It really is lovely stuff, and I’m glad I decided to...
The price for ridding society of bad is always high.
– Richard Helmes, in a letter to his young son.
wake the white queen
There is a girl taking a mad dash to the wc, rushing back to the film. In her hurry she never notices her grandfather, standing ghostly in the mirror and trying desperately to warn her.
October 2011
14 posts
The 3 types of terror - The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down...
– Stephen King
If you really want complete freedom of choice, complete openness of information,...
– Philip Pullman
Nearly 40 states in the USA have fetal homicide laws on the books. These...
– This is terrible. 300:1?!? This should never happen, ever. Yet it’s horrifically typical of law in this country: a law created to help ends up being twisted and used to punish and hurt people. This is exactly why we need to fight and fight hard, to make sure these absurd and abusive...
Moon-man signifies in English a madman because the moon hath greatest...
– Thomas Dekker’s Lanthorn and Candle Light, 1608 (from this “Forgotten English” calendar, June 15, by Jeffrey Kacirk)
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while...
by Lemony Snicket
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a child—rarely...
Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual...
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the...
– Protesters Against Wall Street - NYTimes.com