February 2011
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January 2011
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And I am inarticulate again.
blendstogrey-deactivated2011060 asked: Is the beard a year-round fixture?
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“A man who knew all the words looked with painstaking love at the plants and...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “Martin Fierro,” from The Maker, as collected in Collected Fictions, 1998 Hurley translation.
You make a joke utilizing Young Winston, the vocative case, and Titus Andronicus.
You have won Not-The-Internet.
Three Adjurations To Young Writers Concerning...
Don’t capitalize sentence extensions.
WRONG: “Where is the dog?” He asked.
RIGHT: “Where is the dog?” he asked.
Do not confuse a sentence extension with an independent sentence that follows dialogue.
WRONG: “Where is the dog now?” he stood in the kitchen, looking baffled.
RIGHT: “Where is the dog now?” He stood in the kitchen, looking...
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Wikileaks Cables Being Used In Defense of Former... →
In breaking news, there’s more evidence that Wikileaks’ work is not without unfortunate consequences. Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, is accused of crimes against humanity, including the enabling of mass murder, mass rape, widespread burning of cities, terrorizing civilian populations, selling people into sexual slavery, garden-variety slavery and forced labor,...
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“In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon...”
– Dylan Thomas, “In my Craft or Sullen Art.”
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Overheard At Cafe
A: I'll go to the counter. What do you want?
B: Just a regular. Black.
A: …
B: No room for cream.
A: I don't think they do that here.
B: What—of course they do. Everyone does regular coffee.
A: What about French Roast? There's Bold, you could get a Bold.
B: I don't know what that connotes. French Roast.
A: Here, look, there's an Italian Blend.
B: Does it taste more French?
A: Or you could get a macchiato, I hear they're really good here.
B: What is the taste of French like? Blue-veined cheese? Accordion music? Does it taste like a beret?
A: …
B: Does it perhaps taste like the sweet sorrow of long-lost love? In the rain?
A: Do you want to go to the Huddle House?
B: Yes. Yes, I want to go to the Huddle House.
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Things I Am Actually Afraid Of
Had a dream where I accidentally misjudged my razor guide length and trimmed a huge chunk out of my beard. Woke up in a panic, heart pounding, smacking sweaty-palmed hands to my face Macaulay Culkin-style. First nightmare I’ve had in years.
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028. Dear Love,
olenvancilland:
I wonder who understands you more. The couple that has been married 20 years, or the couple who got divorced 2 years in? Yours sincerely, Olen van Cilland
Not to be glib—wait, scratch that, that’s exactly what I’m going to be—but I’m going to guess the people who are still married? Yeah.
whiteonwhitecrime asked: "skinny jeans deathcore" is to "my video(nile)" as "pearl jam(early 90's)" is to "nickleback." clear?
There’s little more cheering than realizing someone is more than you gave them credit for.
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Now It Was Something Else
Sex, like everything, ends.
It was the unfortunate part of love and marriage, watching the slow disintegration of what, in the beginning, was everything that they had. Those were the days when she dressed in gauzy translucent dresses to match the translucency of her unblemished skin. Any space longer than an hour that they were let alone would inevitably end with him on top of her, her pulling...
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Dear web site designers,
Please stop putting goddamn Facebook “Like” buttons next to every goddamn thing, turning the internet into a bunch of goddamn blue-and-white synergizing SEO garbage. Thanks.
Sincerely, Barretta.
P.S.: This goes motherfucking double for blogs, and if you are trying to get people to “Like” individual creative writing or poetry posts, it is a triple...
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Dear web site designers,
Please stop putting goddamn Facebook “Like” buttons next to every goddamn thing, turning the internet into a bunch of goddamn blue-and-white synergizing SEO garbage. Thanks.
Sincerely, Barretta.
P.S.: This goes motherfucking double for blogs, and if you are trying to get people to “Like” individual creative writing or poetry posts, it is a triple...
surrogateandbulletproof-deactiv asked: Just to clarify, it was Seth who said he was going to call ME Kendon. Obviously he has Kendon on the brain..and on the penis. I have already called seth "kendon" during sex.
michelle-said asked: Ha. Those are on loan from a friend who said, "You can get rid of them once you're done with them." So, uh, not much of a loan, I guess. I haven't managed to crack them open yet.
michelle-said asked: Ha. Those are on loan from a friend who said, "You can get rid of them once you're done with them." So, uh, not much of a loan, I guess. I haven't managed to crack them open yet.
surrogateandbulletproof-deactiv asked: Just to clarify, it was Seth who said he was going to call ME Kendon. Obviously he has Kendon on the brain..and on the penis. I have already called seth "kendon" during sex.
surrogateandbulletproof:
“I’m gonna call you kendon next time we’re making love”
“Your Fantasy.”
”Maybe yours.”
Is it weird neither one of us denied it?
So, so obvious.
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Actions which mimic purpose constitute purpose.
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Unsurprisingly, Julian Assange Has No Game →
betterbodyarmour asked: i pulled that entirely out of my ass.... i feel pretty awesome right now. and a little filthy
betterbodyarmour asked: i pulled that entirely out of my ass.... i feel pretty awesome right now. and a little filthy
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Like all great works, my country was built in part on suffering, steeped in the blood of martyrs. Today is the day to remember that. Martin Luther King Jr., to you and all the other peacemakers slain in our names, we salute you.
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The sky was grey and black with sheets of cloud like wrought iron and the beach lit with its grey light on the day that I remember. The waves each were hammered hard and cold from the sea and split on the shore among the shadows of the dark day. I remember thinking that I would remember this day and this light and the hour that I saw the world, just so and no other way. That what I saw would never...
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu.” It has been said that this opening paragraph from this short story can effectively sum up Lovecraft’s canon. My only comment on this would be—is it not possible he was a greater seer than we thought? Have any of you seen Real...
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Thoughts That Strike Me Immediately On Waking,...
The passion for virtue is like a beautiful woman half-glimpsed in a dream. You fall in love without ever having seen her face.
Wait.
Do they still play cartoons on Saturday mornings?
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“When Yang Tzŭ went to the Sung State, he passed a night at an inn. The innkeeper...”
– Lionel Giles, Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu.
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“When Yang Tzŭ went to the Sung State, he passed a night at an inn. The innkeeper...”
– Lionel Giles, Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu.
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Pearls Before Breakfast →
In March 2007, the world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell played an anonymous concert to a metro station full of bureaucrats in the District of Columbia. This article is an examination of how we perceive art out of its context, and whether we can see the beauty that’s right in front of us.
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Pearls Before Breakfast →
In March 2007, the world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell played an anonymous concert to a metro station full of bureaucrats in the District of Columbia. This article is an examination of how we perceive art out of its context, and whether we can see the beauty that’s right in front of us.
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Look, Fresh Air, I love you, but there is no excuse for having as a guest anyone who ever named an album Dookie.
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Things, Besides Myself, Found In My Bed At 3:42...
Ivan Turgenev’s Three Short Novels, containing “First Love,” “The Diary of a Superfluous Man,” and “Acia” (352pp.)
A craving for chicken and waffles.
No chicken and waffles.
Sadness.
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hotelbalconies-deactivated20110 asked: Yes, I agree :D Until Thanksgiving. I'm expecting one million YouTube hits by the following Christmas.
betterbodyarmour asked: such a thing would require hard drugs and a generous broadway contract..... the more i think about it, though, i feel like this thing could really take off. at least, i would go see it. over and over again. make it happen
betterbodyarmour asked: such a thing would require hard drugs and a generous broadway contract..... the more i think about it, though, i feel like this thing could really take off. at least, i would go see it. over and over again. make it happen
painisfodder-deactivated2011101 asked: kendon kendon kendon. does this kind of thing bother you?
http://colvinwilt.tumblr.com/post/2738905407/another-piece-from-windows-paint-i-so-need-this
I'm curious, and I'm bored, and you're the first person to show up on my dash, so you shall be the first victim of my ennui.
http://colvinwilt.tumblr.com/post/2738905407/another-piece-from-windows-paint-i-so-need-this
I'm curious, and I'm bored, and you're the first person to show up on my dash, so you shall be the first victim of my ennui.
hotelbalconies-deactivated20110 asked: Yes, I agree :D Until Thanksgiving. I'm expecting one million YouTube hits by the following Christmas.
betterbodyarmour asked: i've been drinking and listening to MIKA. that shit is way to heavy for me right now
