February 2012
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“We’re hungry for freedom.”
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/09/land-of-free-home-of-hungry
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“The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information...”
– Declan McCullagh:
The chief political correspondent for CNET.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20054342-281.html
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Listen
January 2012
10 posts
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via drinkyourjuice)
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“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to...”
– Orwell, G.
I think he would really dig targeted drone killings. Speaking of drones…
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“In fact, this is a town of cats. When the sun starts to go down, many cats come...”
– Read more (starts at the giant W) http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/09/05/110905fi_fiction_murakami?currentPage=4
Murkakami, H. (2011.) 1Q84. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 402.
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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...”
–
Vladimir Nabokov
(via slingshotheart)
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“Made a lightning trip to Vienna,
eating chocolate cake in a bag.
The newspaper...”
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“I ate the wedding cake ‘til the whole damn thing was gone.”
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“What did it mean for a person to be free? she often asked herself. Even if you...”
– Murkakami, H. (2011.) 1Q84. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p 184.
December 2011
2 posts
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humbug scumble: A great many false ideas have been... →
A great many false ideas have been spread about the nature of boredom. It is generally believed that by filling time with things new and interesting we can make it “pass,” by which we mean “shorten” it; monotony and emptiness, however, are said to weigh down and hinder its passage. This is not true under all conditions. Emptiness and monotony may stretch a moment or even an hour and make it...
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the beautiful →
humbugscumble:
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but...
November 2011
9 posts
“How am I not myself?”
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“Life is but a dream.”
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“Who are you? Where are you going? What do you need?”
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“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water...”
– Joyce, J. Ulysses. (1990). p 12.
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Neurosis
A mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, is accompanied by a less distorted perception of reality than in a psychosis, does not result in disturbance of the use of language, and is accompanied by various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances (asvisceral symptoms, anxieties, or phobias).
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Officious
Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, esp. with regard to petty or trivial matters
October 2011
7 posts
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Buying an envelope. →
mackenziegribble:
[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And,...
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Democracy Now! at Occupy Wall Street →
“We not asking for change, we demand change” - John Carlos
Watch it all.
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Filling Holes With Smoke
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“They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I’m working all...”
– Oberst, C. (2006). Drunk Kid Catholic. Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998 - 2005).
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“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job, and...”
– Herman Cain U.S. presidential candidate
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“There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth...”
– Nabokov, V. (1962). Pale Fire. Random House: New York. p 39.
September 2011
9 posts
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“For every 300 Muscovites, there’s a stray dog wandering the streets of...”
– Stolen verbatim and sans shame from http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/moscows-stray-dogs-evolving-greater-intelligence-wolf-characteristics-and-mastery-subway
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Knowsy
Someone will always be paying close attention to what you are up to, And they will be more than happy to remind you that what you are doing is improper.
Be sure to be as assured when you congratulate them on a life that has been so scrupulously examined that they have the time and magnanimity to impart flawless knowledge onto you.
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“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of...”
– Kennedy, J. F.
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“A recent UN report says the way the U.S. denies its citizens access to water,...”
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Watch<3
Length: 10:16
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Bear witnessees
On an expeditionary bear hunt.
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“Could I see the town was burning?”
– Oberst, C. (2011). Triple Spiral.
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Majestic
Without insurance, young father dies of tooth infection
A 24-year-old Ohio man died August 31 of complications from an infected tooth, doctors at University Hospital in Cincinnati said. Kyle Willis had suffered from an abscessed wisdom tooth for two weeks but because he was unemployed and uninsured, he could not afford to have it extracted.
His aunt, Patti Collins, told local NBC affiliate WLWT...
In flames.
August 2011
10 posts
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“Well, you’re sleeping in that southern state
Where the bars are filled...”
– Oberst, C. (2002). Home Volume IV.
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“If you can do harm, you can do good.”
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“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which...”
– Our Dear Ford
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An early morning visitor
2 zucchini
2 cucumber
And anxiety was here when I woke up.
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Beeeeeeeeeeeees
The bees have been busting their arthropod asses:
4 Zucchini
2 Cucumber
1 Tomato (dropped)