July 2010
14 posts
“What I would wish for on a grand scale, of course, is to able to do everything I...”
– My mom.
Wish her luck.
“I think we should build nothing but shrines [at Ground Zero]. One of every kind...”
– Dave Winer (via marco)
Rock stars use Internet Explorer 6. →
Nick Cernis:
To Whom It May Concern
You are not a ninja. Each time you use the word ‘ninja’ in vain, another one moves into your attic. Ninjas train. Ninjas battle. Ninjas don’t check email.
You are not a rock star. Rock stars paint on silence. Rock stars trash hotels. Rock stars use Internet Explorer 6. Rock stars just don’t give a shit.
An artist? Please. Artists see. Artists reflect....
This shit is MAKING MY DAY, y'all. →
The original commercial’s cute enough, but the video responses are BRILLIANT. Who is writing these things?! They are so great!
Monocle smile.
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The Waking
Theodore Roethke:
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have...
I'm doing this. →
Preparing for my ass to be kicked.
SUPER EXCITED.
“Questions of agency, divine or otherwise, dog us these early-summer days, amid a...”
– Nick Paumgarten studies the passive/divine voice in the New Yorker (via Julia)
“questions of agency dog us these early-summer days.”
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poetry as tonic #23
Jane Kenyon:
Happiness
There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.
And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know that...