October 2011
[Billy] turned on the television. He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969. (via cathodenarcissus)
Favorite Vonnegut quote.
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Figuratives: Prayer, Marie Howe →
figuratives:
Someone or something is leaning close to me now trying to tell me the one true story of my life: one note, low as a bass drum, beaten over and over: It’s beginning summer, and the man I love has forgotten my smell the cries I made when he touched me, and my laughter when he picked me up and…
In a poetry reblog mood. Favorite poem of all time, perhaps.
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the difference between taking spanish and taking...
speegz:
when i took spanish, the things i translated:
“billy likes cheeseburgers. do you go to the library? i play soccer with friends.”
what i’m translating right now in latin:
“The girl had only lived for 13 years. the doctor could not save her. we cannot tolerate a death of this magnitude.”
lol. Or “The slaves who were helping the horses were killed in the war.”
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This a movement based on class, which, as an issue, most Americans don’t much like to confront, largely because to admit that it is an issue is to admit that a great part of the American self-image is a delusion. We do not all have an equal chance. The game is rigged. The economy has been turned into a casino and the house always wins, and we are not the house any more. Not for a long time....
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This is why I am lying when I say that I don’t love you no more.
– Cat Power, “Good Woman” (via colourmegreenwich)
I love this song. It destroys me.
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someone from high school just friended me on...
Friendship request ACCEPTED.
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we shall be dancing on the grave of a possum: Ten... →
thebluthcompany:
This past weekend we found out that Arrested Development will return to television in a nine- or ten-episode limited-run series, set to film next summer, with each episode focusing on a single member of the Bluth clan. And series creator Mitchell Hurwitz said that he is…
:D
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