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An Existential Life: "Paper Towns" by John Green (pages 57-58)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:49:43 -0500

An Existential Life: "Paper Towns" by John Green (pages 57-58):

“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those…

Oh, so you’re familiar with my hometown?

Mr. Scott Davis's Internet Place: 2 friends of ours were stabbed at Montana and Echo Park last night. Please read.

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:19:12 -0400

Mr. Scott Davis's Internet Place: 2 friends of ours were stabbed at Montana and Echo Park last night. Please read.:

monsterbeard:

urfrndsvnnh:

Two friends of ours were out last night and were on their way home. On MONTANA and ECHO PARK they were approached by a man (possibly 2?) who is described as a gang member. He began yelling at them and calling them “faggots” and saying really awful homophobic…

"Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has become a perfect allegory for today’s globalised..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:49:11 -0400

“Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has become a perfect allegory for today’s globalised world. Always on our guard, we expect something exceptional to happen at any time of day or night, and the absurd fascination with this shapeless possibility binds us to social networks with all the force of affective attachment Freud termed “cathexis”. We intuitively know that the event will arrive by email, in a text message or in a tweet, each of them potentially unheard-of, life-changing, radically new.”

- Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of The Event of the Thing: Derrida’s Post-Deconstructive Realism (2009),Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt (2010) and numerous articles in phenomenology, political philosophy, and environmental thought. His most recent book, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life will be published later this year. His website is michaelmarder.org.

from aljazeera english, and probably the most astute thing anyone’s ever said about tweets/texts/et al/OMG

we spent the day with a mama elephant and her baby, bad boy. ...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:21:28 -0400

we spent the day with a mama elephant and her baby, bad boy. here’s them in a river.

so ... jezebel

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:57:54 -0500

is a less a place for “feminists” and more a place for mean girls to criticize women’s appearances and life choices? k. just checking.

fun! danharmon: From the room in which Remedial Chaos Theory...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:05:21 -0400

fun!

danharmon:

From the room in which Remedial Chaos Theory was broken by Chris McKenna and writers. I’m sorry, that’s not accurate. The room in which Chris McKenna and writers were broken by Remedial Chaos Theory. Thank you so much for your patience and sacrifices, guys.

Well this is awful

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:52:26 -0400

Well this is awful:

well, at least the comments are a stream of hateful, misogynist vitriol.

delightmare:

jenniepie:

Dear everyone involved with this article,

Did you even watch the Emmy’s this year??? Specifically the category for Lead Female in a Comedy? There’s room for everyone, even if we aren’t all a sexually aggressive/rude/domineering nymphomaniac. Which apparently is the funniest thing to be?

the worst thing is that a woman wrote this article. this quote makes me feel bite-y:

The mentality that funny and sexy can’t go together is on its way out, because trying to be sexy is pretty damn funny!”

really, there was a mentality that funny and sexy can’t go together? i thought the conventional wisdom was that funny and sexy kinda have to go together when you’re a woman and you want to be on television, unless you’re asking people to laugh AT you instead of WITH you. didn’t tina fey have to lose like 40 pounds to move from behind the camera on SNL? i’m so tired of this meme that being super sexy is somehow empowering. if it’s a requirement, it’s not empowering.
also, trying to be sexy isn’t funny.

comiques: Diagnoses

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:24:24 -0400

comiques:

Diagnoses

everything i love in one tumblr.

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:26:02 -0400

everything i love in one tumblr.

beautiful!

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:16:06 -0400

beautiful!

chrisfarah: I can’t find out how to spell is but adding...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:57:32 -0400

chrisfarah:

I can’t find out how to spell is but adding Dum-mook-il: (Arabic) An obnoxious person whose blood is so thick there’s struggle just passing it through his or her viens.

"There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become..."

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:55:25 -0400

“There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”

- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (via aperfectcommotion)

bernadette peters singing sondheim 4-ever.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:38:43 -0400

bernadette peters singing sondheim 4-ever.

i applaud boston’s stance on full zombie information...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:11:45 -0400

i applaud boston’s stance on full zombie information disclosure.

fattyftw:

Boston Police don’t deny fucking zombie bites from their people. Boston Police don’t fucking hesitate when it comes to zombie bites.

you can hear my song on itunes. Lemme know your thoughts

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:27:12 -0400

you can hear my song on itunes. Lemme know your thoughts:

what do i think about it? i just bought that ish on itunes, baby.

Meredith Woerner nailed it.

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:35:14 -0400

“You gotta love that right after the exceptionally visceral True Blood titles, the show immediately cuts to the faerie sound stage. Sure, sure they may have (may have) wanted us to feel like this world was fake for the later reveal, but the jarring glare from the deep South high art titles to what one might see inside a New Jersey Shore club called “ROME” is hilarious. And part of the reason I love this show so much.”

"I have no drive to succeed, I don’t persevere. Everything I’ve ever done that’s..."

Fri, 20 May 2011 17:42:54 -0400

“I have no drive to succeed, I don’t persevere. Everything I’ve ever done that’s been hard to do failed. Everything I’ve ever done that was fun, and happened naturally, was successful. Sometimes you don’t want to write something. Good. I wouldn’t want to read it if you did. Go to the mall. Talk to your friend. Do drugs. Drive your car into a brick wall. Sit in your closet and cry. Obviously, you’re going to have to do something other than what you’re doing. Be at least as smart as a spider. If there’s no silk coming out of your asshole, or no flies in your web, you crawl somewhere else.”

- dan harmon.

i like to use this little blog thingee as a scrapbook for things i’d like to remember. and pictures of kittens and such.

theidiotking: They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:55:11 -0400

theidiotking:

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

"yeah, there is this one scene where the ‘savages’ were having this really corny rave..."

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:52:44 -0400

“yeah, there is this one scene where the ‘savages’ were having this really corny rave butt sex orgy and i was like ‘yeah, no.’”

- my friend mc on why she’s not watching ‘game of thrones.’

samesies. happyhour: This killed me last night.

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:56:45 -0400

samesies.

happyhour:

This killed me last night.