January 2012
Today is a day of whiskey and cigarettes. And lots of duh partiez.
December 2011
40 Day Dream by Edward Sharpe and...
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith
“Memoirs on autism also frequently mention the parents’ distress at seeing the...”
– Little Boy Lost by Amy Leal
I’m a so-called “regressive autistic”. I lost language skills when I was a small child. I also experienced something rarer, in that I also lost a bunch of different skills including speech, gradually starting in early adolescence.
Thing is, I’m still here. I’m not...
Undercover London Police Cleared 'To Have Sex with... →
climateadaptation:
I don’t believe this story at all.
Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years. The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers...
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
— Rumi
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
—Albert Camus
When I turned 18, I felt I was grown up. Then when I was 21, I reflected, ‘Boy, I was just a kid then; now I’m grown up.’ The same thing happened when I was 27. It wasn’t until I was in my early 30s that I realized it was a futile goal to have. You’re never grown up. We’re all still dealing with the same hopes, same fears, same dreams that we had as children.
—Shelley Duvall
Anonymous had threatened to take down PSN because...
anticapitalist:
Good thing that Sony withdrew support for SOPA. Well it’s good for Sony.
EDIT: Sony has not withdrawn support for SOPA
Books are not banned because they are inherently...
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
—Hermann Hesse
“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.”
—Charles Bukowski
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.”
—Buddha
Mother with no prior offenses sentenced to twelve... →
involuntaryrebellion:
And her 51 year-old mother was given a 30-year suspended sentence so that she could care for the 4 children while mom is in jail.
Tell me that’s not some bullshit right there.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
—Paulo Coelho
“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...”
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
My love for mysteries (still my favorite genre) started with Scooby-Doo, continued through Nancy Drew, and then brought me to Christie and Sayers.
(via clio-jlh)
That’s what was so great about these older cartoons, they...
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends, fads and popular opinion.”
—Jack Kerouac
So, I’ve decided to break things off with my…whatever the hell he is.
I thought I was in control of the situation—but I’m not…I wasn’t. I’ve come to the realization that I hold anything or anyone I’ve ever wanted at a distance, or ignore it/them. That I have come to not trust anyone. Not even my “close” friends and family. I think...
