January 2011
64 posts
I want to marry Coketalk. →
dearcoketalk:
Do you look forward to the extinction of humankind? I sure do, I feel like the most beautiful thing that humans could achieve would be to finally die off and let the good earth try to heal itself. When I say this to close family members they never agree and sometimes are angry at me, calling me…
The only thing not cool about Tumblr.
Why doesn’t the Tumblr directory have a “Literature” group?
And why is the “Books” directory full of links to people that blog PICTURES of books?
Are we all illiterate ruhtards?
Are you even reading this?
It does have seven sentences in it.
You must be exhausted.
I AM THE PERIOD AT THE END OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
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Look yeah I keep to myself that’s just the way it is maybe I’m shy maybe I’m aloof maybe I’m both shut up who cares what business is it of yours anyway did I ask you no I did not sometimes people talk about punctuation all together they say comma semicolon period like we’re all the same but I mean come on I’m not a comma commas are whores I know that...
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“To those who will make the 21st century, we say with our affection:
TO CREATE...”
– From Stephane Hessel’s Indignez-Vous!
I’ve heard so much about this in the last few months. I cannot wait to read it in absolute silence in my unibomber cabin deep in the woods this weekend.
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“My hope is that in some sense Obama represents the end of political...”
– Peter Thiel isn’t just brilliant, he’s also scary as fuck and worth more than most small countries.
From an interview with Matthew Shaffer in this month’s National Review.
via thisrecording.com
#longreads
“You are 22 and love isn’t yet the warm distraction it will become later,...”
– Sarah Labrie, On (Not) Leaving Los Angeles for This Recording
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GEORGE LOIS - Vice Magazine →
Vice crushes it again with an amazing George Lois interview.
(via Instapaper)
Trouble loves me.
#doucheybeforeitstime
“The things that define us are rarely the ones we were looking for.”
Loops loops, beautiful loops.
Can’t. Stop. Listening.
Kordan - The...
Watch…was almost as beautiful as my ride home last night.
WatchMy ride to work this morning…
This is brill. Brill brill. →
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“…most lives dribble away like piss in the dust.”
– This Recording posted part two of the John Steinbeck letters yesterday. The more I read them, the less I like him, which is sad, because Tortilla Flats was one of my favorite childhood books.
The things I don't know
are always far more enticing than the things I do know.
Sometimes we wonder what’s going to happen, and sometimes we know exactly what’s going to happen. It’s not a matter of actually knowing or not knowing though, it’s simply a matter of mindset. We choose to know, or to wonder. Both come with a powerful set of emotions, which is why we jump back and forth.
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