February 2012
Why is it so difficult to find out who did the cover art for mcsweeny’s 25? I want to tattoo the back cover on myself, but would like to know more about the artist.
Feb 11th
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“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is...”
– — Roland Barthes (via change-your-lineweights )
Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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“Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to...”
– David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (via)
Feb 10th
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Listensometimesagreatnotion: Working Titles - Damien...
Feb 9th
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“The problem illustrates the complexities of Obama’s election-year calculus: Walk...”
– (via) Am I crazy, or is this “fight” over contraceptive coverage exactly what the right wants? Obama is not anti-abortion, and makes no attempt to be. I grew up around Catholics, and let me tell you - if they’re anti-contraception, they are certainly anti-abortion. And they vote that way, too. ...
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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I have an enormous respect for my parents and their beliefs. They’re overwhelmingly progressive and spend a very large amount of their extra time and money promoting social justice. They are educated voters who take the time to dissect each candidate on the ballot before casting their votes. In my teens, I may have found it worth it to take the bait on a discussion of me being...
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Michael Bloomberg is matching gifts to Planned... →
This is easy. Follow the link, give a few dollars, and you’ll be effectively donating twice as much.
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and...”
– Milan Kundera (Slowness)
Feb 2nd
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Someone is trying to torture me
i received three emails from various hikers up North today asking to hike/ go to a cabin for the weekend… I need to get back there.
Feb 2nd
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats   (via human-voices)
Feb 2nd
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“How we live depends on our relationship with death; how we make music depends on...”
– Paul Hillier (via human-voices)
Feb 1st
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January 2012
Heirloom Gardener Ryan Gosling
wcecil01: sproutrobot: Being super sensitive and thoughtful, Heirloom Gardener Ryan Gosling would get organic vegetable seeds for you from SproutRobot. Image via Pinterest. (BTW family: SproutRobot is on Pinterest now, too. Are you?) Best Ryan Gosling meme
Jan 31st
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I have many more tools than I need to do what I...
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via icebergprinciple)
Jan 31st
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Brooke Tomiello: ”Every day we slaughter our... →
brooketomiello: ”Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and…
Jan 31st
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“I started to carry chalk around with me. I ride my bike a lot, so, I’d ride my...”
– Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old college student who gave up his cellphone, email and social media for 90 days. He says that, among other things, the experiment taught him that some people he thought were close friends really weren’t that close after all, and he thinks it helped him get back together with...
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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I don’t make PSAs too often so take heed. Do yourself a favor and treat yourself, go and see The Artist at the theatre ASAP. It will leave you speechless. Also, don’t watch the trailer.
Jan 26th
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My Internet just failed, and I instinctively pulled out the USB dongle, blew in it, and replaced it. My dormant 90’s kid instincts haven’t left me.
Jan 25th
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technology/biology
my tumblr dashboard’s menstrual cycle is synchronizing it seems… and we come one step closer to the binars.
Jan 25th
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“The word ‘adventure’ has just gotten overused. For me, adventure is when...”
– Yvon Chouinard (180° South)
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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We are productive individuals by nature. Creating...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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in which Nic joins the ranks of the carless
My car is totaled. My neck hurts. I’m stuck at home. Someone come take me away to a coffee shop.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Round 2. Music suggestions?
fuckyeahhiking: baaconnn: Got so many great responses last time, I’m trying this again because I like new music. Things along the lines of The Avett Brothers, Trampled by Turtles, The Tallest Man on Earth, John Prine, Mumford & Sons, Iron&Wine, Grace Potter, Head and the Heart, Black Keys, Deer Tick, Felice Brothers, Bon Iver, YSMB, OCMS… basically anything bluegrass/folk. Any...
Jan 14th
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I pulled the coffee pot off the coffee maker and...
Nick Welsh, a hero for us all.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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