January 2012
1 post
"I guess like everybody I’m emotionally fouled up... →
“… Actually—though I don’t take advantage of the fact as much as I should—I find that I’m simply the happiest, the placidest, when I’m writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. When I’m writing I find it’s the only time that I feel completely self-possessed, even when the writing itself is not going too well. It’s fine therapy for people who are perpetually...
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
4 posts
“if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you
then...”
– E. E. Cummings, “if you like my poems let them” (via bookoasis)
“I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to...”
– Margaret Atwood, “Variation on the Word Sleep” (via bookoasis)
October 2011
1 post
the existence of tumblr is now justified →
August 2011
5 posts
xkcd explains it all →
3 tags
fuckyeahphilosophy:
How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
ahaha
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How... →
7 tags
July 2011
2 posts
close to my heart
As I Walked Out One Evening
W.H. Auden
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
'Love has no ending.
'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon...
June 2011
2 posts
NYtimes Book Review introduces: The Mechanic Muse →
This could prove itself to be a very good thing.
What Lawrence Hill tells Dutch group planning to... →
“Burning books is designed to intimidate people. It underestimates the intelligence of readers, stifles dialogue and insults those who cherish the freedom to read and write.”
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
3 posts
Kay Ryan wins Poetry Pulitzer →
March 2011
3 posts
Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the Only Choice →
People pragmatically intuit that regardless of whether free will exists, our society depends on everyone’s believing it does.
February 2011
5 posts
"Who Am I?" - Demetri Martin →
“I am Batman, but only on Halloween. And then I am not invited to many parties. But I am fine with that, because that just makes me an even more accurate Batman (because Batman does not go to parties as Batman but only as Bruce Wayne). I am right about this.”
THIS BLOG IS CLUTTERED & ENDING & I AM GOING TO START A NEW ONE VERY SOON OK.
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
4 posts
August 2010
2 posts
JUDGE VAUGHN WALKER’S OPINION →
“If I were on the anti-gay marriage side, I’d start wondering if I had the facts to shore up my moral disapproval.”
July 2010
7 posts
I FEEL LIKE...
…some of my thought patterns are starting to resemble a web browser. As in, visually, in my brain, some of my thought patterns are formatted as if I was viewing them through a web browser.
TIME TO QUIT THE INTERNET BYE FOR NOW
June 2010
3 posts
The Poem That Took The Place of a Mountain
There...
