try to praise the mutilated world.

you must praise the mutilated world.

toothpastefordinner.com true dat.* *actually I do not know if this is true, since I think I fail at personality tests, based on my experience of getting different answers every time I take one of those fake shortened versions they give out in insightfully-oriented educational moments.

toothpastefordinner.com

true dat.*

*actually I do not know if this is true, since I think I fail at personality tests, based on my experience of getting different answers every time I take one of those fake shortened versions they give out in insightfully-oriented educational moments.

reblogged from whokilled
whokilled: Stupid Robin. Create your own. via a real person.

whokilled:

Stupid Robin. Create your own.

via a real person.

“and so they talked two hours or more, perhaps about Cape Horn, perhaps not, and really it would profit little to write down what they said, for they knew each other so well that they could say anything they liked, which is tantamount to saying nothing, or saying such stupid, prosy things, as how to cook an omelette, or where to buy the best boots in London, which have no lustre taken from their setting, yet are positively of amazing beauty within it. For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down. For which reasons we leave a great blank here, which must be taken to indicate that the space is filled to repletion.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando


reblogged from shaneblog
shaneblog: Thank you Mario! But our multitasking is in another device! I would just like to point out that I GET THIS, guys! (Thanks Sam & James!)

shaneblog:

Thank you Mario! But our multitasking is in another device!

I would just like to point out that I GET THIS, guys! (Thanks Sam & James!)

Elizabeth Bradfield:

Because this life, this alarm clock time card
percolator direct deposit income tax stop light

seems vast and blank and numbing.

Tell me secret orchids hide
between the black rock and the ice.

Tell me a wild bird sings deep
in the crevasses, windstrokes cracking air.

Tell me there’s a surface we can walk on
lidding miles of plumed and luminescent fish.

I’m ready to be amazed. I’m longing for it.

I don’t know anything about Elizabeth Bradfield, but I think I’m going to like Approaching Ice. I’m ready to be amazed.



name meme thing + androgyny = magic

The plan: look up your first name on urbandictionary.com. Bah, I thought, this’ll be boring. But look! It was not.

1. awesomest name in the world, i.e. Person 1: Man corey is wicked awesome Person 2: oh hell yea dont forget it

2. Comes From A Scotish Term Meaning Amazement, It Originates From Here Because In The Old Scotish Towns The person they had no idea how they managed to survive or make any money or do something cool would be the Corey of the town

3. Slang Cockney word for penis, i.e. He’s got one hell’uva corey


reblogged from ipomoea

Note to myself

ipomoea:

do not ever watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in class with a bunch of 22-year-olds, because when the house lights come up, you’re just the weird lady trying to stifle your sobs.

OH SHIT TOO LATE. SORRY, BABIES. MARRIED LADY FREAKOUT.

I did this once, except the movie was Big Fish, and the 22-year-olds were my students. Man, is it embarrassing to turn up the house lights and explain the assignment while sniffling and offering the dry-eyed monsters Kleenex.


reblogged from jamiedaniel
“We could … produce the Fundamentally Sound, Sure-Fire Top Five Components of Happiness: (1) Be in possession of the basics — food, shelter, good health, safety. (2) Get enough sleep. (3) Have relationships that matter to you. (4) Take compassionate care of others and of yourself. (5) Have work or an interest that engages you.”

(via jamiedaniel: Amy Bloom in Sunday’s Book Review on the annoying simplification of happiness in the self-help genre. Read it.)

Oh, because these five are so easy. This article hits exactly the points I’ve been thinking about for a while now - thanks, Jamie!