February 2012
1 post
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming...”
– Antonio Gramsci (via hall0weenjack)
December 2011
8 posts
“We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution
Called America,...”
– Diane di Prima, Rant, from a Cool Place (via fernsandmoss)
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold...”
– Kenneth Clark (via atomos)
“Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his...”
– Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (via ventriloquistic)
November 2011
21 posts
“1. Run away to Brooklyn. Rent an apartment with a claw footed bathtub. Commute...”
– 5 Fantasy Exit Strategies « Thought Catalog
All of the above?
(via kellywebb)
A Fine Mess: International Day for the Elimination... →
redlightpolitics:
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The day marks the anniversary of the political assassination of the Mirabal Sisters in Dominican Republic.
UN officially designed the day in 1999 but activists across Latin America had already…
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the...”
– City Of Thieves, David Benioff (via songe-creux)
I envy people who can eat without thinking.
I envy people who feel full on a regular basis.
I don’t hate myself after I eat, which is a small blessing. It’s just the getting there that’s difficult.
(via prettywar)
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that...”
– Leo Buscaglia (via ventriloquistic)
phiLOLZophy: Other Mainstream American Chains that... →
philolzophy:
So uhh this week yoga chain Lululemon announced they were announcing a new corporate philosophy that was based on Ayn Rand’s philosophy as promoted in Atlas Shrugged (which Lulu founder read when he was eighteen and recently ‘looked back on’, LOL). If you’re not familiar basically this book…
AWESOME
“Once you get hold of selflessness,
you’ll be dragged from your ego
and freed...”
– Rumi (via fernsandmoss)
this is beautiful
“Here’s what I think about that, right now. I’m a science fiction writer, and one...”
– John Scalzi on Joe Patterno and Penn State. (via liquidiousfleshbag)
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence...”
– Michael Crichton (via cosive)
“This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely...”
– Tom Robbins (via atomos)
October 2011
21 posts
“You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles...”
– Henry Rollins
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft...”
– Woodrow Wilson (via ventriloquistic)
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody...”
– Michael Jordan (via ventriloquistic)
“I know how vicious you think you are,
the black widow work you think you’ve...”
– Jeremy Radin, from The Last Boss (via ahuntersheart)
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trust your good
(via pleasebebrave)
“My mind ballooned with nervous fear. I looked at Pip and for a split second I...”
– Miranda July, excerpt from Something That Needs Nothing (via pleasebebrave)
“Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies (of that concentrate of mind and body...”
– Italo Calvino (via obdormio)
“With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that...”
– Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland - ABC News
Occupy folks, please think about this. We gave a $529 million loan to a company to make luxury cars in Finland that, we hope, might be purchased by the richest of Americans. That is: We are subsidizing the production of luxury cars...
I'm glad everyone likes our poster campaign :)
This is great.
saucy-sarah:
There’s more:
Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University. I’m the President, any questions… MESSAGE ME! :)
What does Gaddafi's death mean for Africa? →
fyeahafrica:
A grandson of Nelson Mandela is named Gadaffi - a sign of how popular the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi once was in South Africa and many other African countries.
With his image of a revolutionary, Col Gaddafi inspired South Africans to fight for their liberation, funding and arming the anti-apartheid movement as it fought white minority rule.
However, he also backed...
“Once the Libyans realize what the Iraqis and Afghans have bitterly...”
– Chris Hedges (via cultureofresistance)
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to...”
– Khalil Gibran (via thatkindofwoman)
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy...”
– Walter Benjamin (via atomos)
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