November 2009
Monsters exist. They live inside ordinary people....
sugarspun:
yerawizardharry:comeincostume:(via vampiresinlove)
Watchbrooklynmutt:
Bill Moyers Journal: Acclaimed blogger Glenn Greenwald, recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media Izzy Award, spoke with Bill Moyers this week for the special web-exclusive conversation
October 2009
“The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man...”
– Magnus Hirschfeld (via reckless-abandon) (via sexisnottheenemy)
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via ignify)
I'm kind of over going to bars.
soupsoup:
Maybe I am getting old but the idea of spending a night at a bar doesn’t appeal to me quite as much as it used to. I hate yelling in order to try to have a conversation with someone. I hate dealing with the crowds. Sure, I don’t mind it once and awhile but certainly not three times a week or more like I used to.
I much prefer having dinner with a group of friends, it’s a lot more...
boo.
“you don’t scare me,” he said to me last night, “but you frighten me.”
i should tell him to run.
what i learned in kindergarten: Just be yourself. →
Self-Image and Party Politics - The Conversation Blog - NYTimes.com
i just don’t understand why it has to be either/or. this whole us vs. them thing just seems counterproductive to having a successful marriage of ideas.
let’s fuck; let’s fight; let’s eat together and be in this relationship.
p.s. i still think you’re wrong, but i’d still like to hear what...
The non-profit that my sister started while in...
crookedindifference:
danij12:
Midwife Training Program
The Women’s Clinic is up and running again…YEAH! We have teamed up with Women for Women International and will now be raising money to support classes that train Afghan women to become midwives. These classes will not only benefit the city populations but also the rural areas that need the most help. The cost of funding this program is...
“What’s notable about the Scalia narrative, though, is not merely the...”
– Megan Garber, Lessons from the Scalia misquote heard ‘round the Web (via soupsoup)
Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill →
soupsoup:
David M. Herszenhorn at New York Times
In its size and scope, the House bill is very similar to a measure under development by the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, who is seeking to combine bills passed by two committees.
But there are crucial differences. The House bill, for instance, would impose a new income surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 and...
walking home
I am tied
to these streets,
hiding under my hat.
I survive
on sips of dew from the mourning.
I can’t scream.
I can’t run.
I can’t trust.
~d.Kwan
Why I write (blog). →
jayparkinsonmd:
Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc.
Aesthetic enthusiasm: Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement.
Historical impulse: Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and...
it goes together like:
hookers and blow.
metal and porn.
what else?
“I wish the same people who loudly speak out against vaccines were also just as...”
– Jay Parkinson (via david) (via soupsoup)
“A stupid mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
Watchbrooklynmutt:
Twin Peaks San Francisco Sunrise (HDR time-lapse)
my hometown. from this view in high school: i got drunk, laughed hard, drip dried, made friends, dried tears, got stoned, broke hearts and fell in love.
“Portland, Ore., loss of 60,800 jobs (-5.9%)”
– Phoenix, Los Angeles lead list of job losers - Phoenix Business Journal: (via robot-heart-politics)
Dad,
lovemewithoutfear:
if you don’t want me to eat dinner with you, then don’t complain when I don’t come home for dinner. mmkay?
oh, little girl, i was there once, too.
brooklynmutt:
“island in the sun”, weezer
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
– Bess Myerson (via littlemiss)
gpoyw
i just found out what this meant. i think internet acronyms are getting a little ridiculous. anyway, i don’t just do it on wednesday, but if you follow me, my little icon is a gp.
