February 2012
sometimesagreatnotion:
Working Titles - Damien...
“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.
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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...
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.
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and...”
– Milan Kundera (Slowness)
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.
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via human-voices)
“How we live depends on our relationship with death; how we make music depends on...”
– Paul Hillier (via human-voices)
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
I have many more tools than I need to do what I...
“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)
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…
“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...
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.
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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.
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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.
“The word ‘adventure’ has just gotten overused. For me, adventure is when...”
– Yvon Chouinard (180° South)
We are productive individuals by nature. Creating...
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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.
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...
I pulled the coffee pot off the coffee maker and...
Nick Welsh, a hero for us all.
When a commercial tells me that a movie opens...
flyflyfly:
I will have no idea when that movie opens.
