February 2011
new beginning
a clean slate is a wonderful thing.
Writer's block is a very serious disease.
Writer's block is a very serious disease.
January 2011
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via quote-book)
waldosia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
“What do you fear, lady”? he asked. “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars,...”
– The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
“Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons...”
– Sheldon Cooper
i love unreliable narrators.
“Out-out are the lights-out all!
And over each quivering form,
The curtain, a...”
– “The Conqueror Worm” (Ligeia) by Edgar Allen Poe
Catching Them All
mybiggestregretever:
My biggest regret ever is catching them all. I really regret catching all the Pokemon. I have no room in my house anymore with all these Pokeballs everywhere, and they’re all so needy, especially Snorlax — all it does is eat. It’s really ruining my life.
[Male, 18]
“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
parliamentary debate
Prime Minister: 7 minutes
Leader of the Opposition: 8 minutes
Member of the Government: 8 minutes
Member of the Opposition: 8 minutes
Leader of the Opposition Rebuttal: 4 minutes
Prime Minister Rebuttal: 5 minutes
What's Your Excuse for Not Achieving Your Goals? →
500daysofkissingmypillow:
ex•cuse n. ik-skyoos An explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.
I don’t have enough money.
It’s too hard to find an audience.
I don’t have enough time.
I don’t have the…
What's Your Excuse for Not Achieving Your Goals? →
500daysofkissingmypillow:
ex•cuse n. ik-skyoos An explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.
I don’t have enough money.
It’s too hard to find an audience.
I don’t have enough time.
I don’t have the…
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I...”
– Wilt Chamberlain
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I...”
– Wilt Chamberlain
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
52hearts:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and...
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
52hearts:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and...
Wish
random-people:
She is laughing hysterically. She isn’t aware of her surrounding or how she looks. She isn’t busy thinking about what people might think about her. In fact, I don’t think she is thinking at all, all she is doing is laughing. She is one year old and she is sitting on her mother’s lap. Sometimes I wish I could just be your age again for a day or two, stranger.
Wish
random-people:
She is laughing hysterically. She isn’t aware of her surrounding or how she looks. She isn’t busy thinking about what people might think about her. In fact, I don’t think she is thinking at all, all she is doing is laughing. She is one year old and she is sitting on her mother’s lap. Sometimes I wish I could just be your age again for a day or two, stranger.
Learn How Propaganda Works: The Giffords Shooting →
greenstate:
Below, we include several frames that you should watch for. They are already starting to appear in the discourse and will continue to spread through mainstream media channels in the coordinated attempt (that will likely be successful) to spin this tragedy into conservative frames.
We encourage you to pay attention to the narratives as they unfold and consider the significance of...
Learn How Propaganda Works: The Giffords Shooting →
greenstate:
Below, we include several frames that you should watch for. They are already starting to appear in the discourse and will continue to spread through mainstream media channels in the coordinated attempt (that will likely be successful) to spin this tragedy into conservative frames.
We encourage you to pay attention to the narratives as they unfold and consider the significance of...
backmasking
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth, a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks or handfuls of birthday cake superimposed on an adult with a degree, an illusion formed when someone opens the door to your emotional darkroom while the memory is still developing.
backmasking
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth, a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks or handfuls of birthday cake superimposed on an adult with a degree, an illusion formed when someone opens the door to your emotional darkroom while the memory is still developing.
