January 2010
98 posts
August →
[a short story i wrote on the fly during august.]
“And when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you...”
– [douglas coupland, MICROSERFS]
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Boy Against Boy
I don’t know why we run. Away from things that scare us, or toward things that are bad for us. We’re always running. Haven’t you noticed? Or were you in too much of a hurry to notice? What the fuck are you talking about? I ask because he’s drunk or stoned or both and I can’t make sense of him when he’s like this. Nothing, he says. Let’s go home. When he...
“…ten billiion cells in the human body…And do you know how many...”
– [grant morrison, THE FILTH]
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the sex is like eating dessert before dinner. or something like less of a whore.
“You feel chilled because you have no character. You’re a depressing...”
– [douglas coupland, JPOD]
“Another day down the mines of our lives. We drink ‘til we stink and smoke...”
– [warren ellis]
December 2009
190 posts
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at the table, she pours herself another drink, takes a deep breath, and here he comes again.
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Nobody's Darlings
shotgunning last week, now drinking. sit at the end of the bar, he’s smoking cheap cigarettes, warm beer in the glasses in front of us, waiting. the music’s just loud enough. when someone new walks in, he nudges me. we’re not creepy, but it’s hard not to come off that way. exchange glances with the tourist women at the other end of the bar, one’s a blonde, the other...
"Fuck off, texting and instant messaging:... →
also: “Fuck off, Twitter and Facebook. Hey, who needs the government setting up all kinds of surveillance when so many people are willing to announce where the fuck they are and what they fuck they’re doing at any given moment. Twitter, Facebook, and, to a lesser extent, MySpace have created a world of exhibitionists who are willing to let strangers look at pictures of their children...
“A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you...”
– Douglas Adams (via louobedlam)
Jim Lehrer's Rules about Journalism →
odat:
youmightfindyourself:
Do nothing I cannot defend.
Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a...
“So why would someone pretend to be a sex worker?… Even more puzzling: Why, oh...”
– Beyond the “Faux Hos” – What about the Faux Academics? « Kittywampus (via Kat) (via melissa)
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A man on his knees, a woman on her back.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Mogwai (23)
DJ Shadow (20)
Joy Division (15)
Fatboy Slim (6)
Fischerspooner (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy...”
– [anthony burgess, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE] (via fuckyeahclockworkorange)
"How do you get friends? Real friends?
It’s... →
[i don’t usually agree with a lot of what ms. palmer says, but this post, all around, kind of got me. well played, AFP!]
“I don’t worship anything
Not gods that don’t exist.
I love my ancestors
but...”
– Vic Chesnutt (RIP) (via theremina)
A thought experiment on the human cost of Security...
claytoncubitt:
I’m not a mathematician, but here goes:
Richard Reid, aka the “Shoe Bomber” death toll: 0 Average number of airline passengers in the United States annually: 660 million, or 5.28 billion since Richard Reid lit his shoe on fire in December of 2001, resulting in the TSA rule that passengers take off shoes in security lines at airports. Assuming an average amount of (dead) time of...
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He goes down on me and tomorrow’s sun is in the atmosphere. I hate it when he makes me feel like an obligation but I was horny and what do you do at six in the morning? At work I’m typing up the minutes for last week’s meeting. In another time, I’d have a secretary doing this for me. But this company is way beyond the future: no personal assistants allowed; we’re each...
“We love freedom and democracy! Give us something!”
– [rick veitch, ARMY@LOVE]
“Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via louobedlam)
I am "rated R for brutal violence" →
[shannon larrat’s self-described ‘dirty tattoo’ has fascinated me over the years from my first view back on modblog. anyway, a recent post regarding some medical imaging has a link.]
“People say that love is in the details. It’s there if you can see it. I...”
– [fabio moon & gabriel ba, DE: TALES]
“They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that...”
– [neil gaiman, ANANSI BOYS]
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The Meat On Your Bones
She begins running and takes my hand and I try to keep up. Bad knees. We run through the tourist crowds; people from everywhere in the country, standing around, looking confused, gaping in awe at the neon technicolor of everything. You see families from the midwest, each of them have fanny packs on and bad shorts and white running shoes and white socks going up mid-calf. We run because...
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It’s only sometimes when a good long cry fixes you right up, he said. I asked him what he meant by that, but when I looked up, he’d been replaced by that brick wall.
“The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice...”
– Terry Gilliam
Brutalics
trixiebedlam:
I hate the way my mother uses the word “dreaming.” She retired recently, and now her online status message is often “dreaming,” which I understand to mean, “dreaming of the new life I will have now that I am not consumed by my soul-killing job.” It makes me angry, because she should have been dreaming all along; now is the time for action, quick, before you reach the time for...
“Our sentence may be caught in the sweet grey matter of another’s head; our sweet...”
– Chelsea G. Summers On a Grammatology of Fucking (via filthygorgeousthings)
“You hear all this whining going on, “Where are our great writers?” ...”
– [gore vidal, ESQUIRE. june 2008.]
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the penguins, EARTH ANGEL [that kind of night.]
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“Anonymous sex is not about avoidance. For me, it is about a kind of harmless...”
– Toni Bentley, The Surrender (via filthygorgeousthings)
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our...”
– George Eastman (via louobedlam)
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Watchmelissa:
Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs - “Borderline” (Madonna cover) - dir. George Salisbury (via faketv)
[awe + some = AWESOME!]
On Fashion
claytoncubitt:
“Fashion is an extension of dressing. It’s a very important social factor. It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is evil....