January 2011
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I...
– ~Annie Dillard
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It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that...
– ~Walter P. Stacy
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You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.
– Maya Angelou, former poet laureate of the United States
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But I like having books. Tangible things. I don’t like my book going away...
– Noah Antwiler
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Whiskey doesn’t mix well with toothpaste, but I already filled the glass,...
– Richard Kadrey, from “Kill the Dead”
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okay, FIIIINE →
Can’t get the pic to work. So I give you the link. Grr argh. Technology bad! Hulk smash!
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is...
– Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Go To The Limits Of Your Longing” (via yesdaddy)
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That awkward moment when you get in the van and...
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in...
– The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in...
– The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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laughingsquid:
Rachel Maddow Looks at Ophiuchus, The 13th Sign of the Zodiac
Here’s what I want to know—not that I place much faith in astrology beyond having fun with the symbols—does this mean there are new signs now, as of 2011, or there were always new signs? This is a big distinction, I think we deserve to know.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they...
– ~Joss Whedon
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You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love till it kills you...
– Spike. Buffy the vampire slayer (via theatre-des-vampires)
(Followed by the immortal line: “I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”)
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bring on the dancing monkeys
[F]: What are you up to?
me: Dying of ennui
Limped around twice, sat back down, sewed some, took more Vicodin, contemplating another run on the main keys, but in the meantime, downloaded and installed QAvimator to prevent me from said run
I want my brain back, I want an end to break-through pain, I want my leg healed already, and I’m basically just complaining here in meaningless fashion
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there's a lesson here
Japan makes partially melted, disturbingly soft robots for companions. England makes disembodied heads that are nearly instantly ruled unacceptable for children under 18 to interact with as teaching devices. Belgium makes huggable, cloth-covered, Alf-like elephant bots as companions.
There’s a lesson here…
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