January 2011
64 posts
I want to marry Coketalk. →
dearcoketalk.com
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 maybe you think they are as controlled and reserved as I am because this paragraph has thus far created that false impression but if you want to see how easy it is to get a comma to give it up just just bang on a tambourine, or whistle, and a comma will start shaking its ass and saying your name all sweet-like, disgusting really, why can’t a comma be more like me, stronger, with more self-respect, even hyphens are whore-like, jumping willy-nilly into any stream of words, and apostrophes, well, don’t get me started on ‘em, in fact, I can’t think of a single piece of punctuation that’s as dignified as I am! Can you? I’m guessing that you’ve been through them all in your head: brackets, interrobangs (that’s the question mark and exclamation point shoved together like they’re doing it), even parentheses, ecch they all make me sick to my stomach, and I know that by now the pressure has built to an almost unbearable level—I know because it’s always that way, every time—and that you just want me to appear so badly that you can almost taste it, that you’re shaking physically, that you think of me as the money shot of punctuation, and, well, you’re right: all these other marks are pretenders to the throne and yeah when I want to make an appearance I’ll do it on my own terms, gloriously, and you may think you know it’s coming but you’ll still be awestruck so brace yourself if you want or tell yourself you’re ready but you’re not ready I’ll take your fucking breath away.
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BEN GREENMAN FOR MCSWEENY’S
“To those who will make the 21st century, we say with our affection:
TO CREATE IS TO RESIST; TO RESIST IS TO CREATE.” —
TO CREATE IS TO RESIST; TO RESIST IS 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 correctness…that maybe people could sort of get it out of their system once and for all in 2008, and that at this point people are going to be somewhat more open to really thinking about our problems. That’s what I’m optimistic about.”
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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.
#longreads
Dig A Little Deeper
Peter Bjorn and John
Off the new PB&J.
I dare you to get all the way through this without zoning out and picking your nose.
“You are 22 and love isn’t yet the warm distraction it will become later, when you are fully human. This love is something hard lodged in your chest. It feeds on pain. You feel it every time you breathe. You haven’t learned yet that the universe doesn’t revolve around your mood swings.”
—Sarah Labrie, On (Not) Leaving Los Angeles for This Recording
