April 2011
11 posts
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are...”
– Anonymous (via french-knot)
Give me the strength to just let go.
“We drive into the future using only our rear-view mirror.”
– Marshall McLuhan (via hysteria)
This has never been truer in politics. The past IS prologue.
“Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you...”
– Ilchi Lee (Thank you, acorda & slychedelic)
“It’s one thing for Obama to decide that it was better to give in to Republican...”
– Paul Krugman (via pantslessprogressive)
How do you spell Clintonesque? If the shoe was on the other foot the Repubs would ramming it down the Dems throat like here in Wisconsin.
““Its coming to grips with the fact that the only person who can cause us to...”
– Adyashanti (via parkstepp)
March 2011
19 posts
aperfectcommotion:
“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger’s story told for the body to forget what it once loved.”
— Marie Howe
1 tag
bits&bites: An open letter to vintage editors →
A quick search on the term reveals that the popular use of the term vintage is definitely NOT agreed upon. One web site said it was something that is so old that it’s now in fashion again… For me it’s a nearly useless term when used as a tag. It’s kinda like calling something ancient. It’s original use as a designation for a specific year as in wine is THE definition....
2 tags
“The failure of the federal war on drugs should be clear enough from one simple...”
– Ron Paul, The Revolution page 131 (via iamanexit)
Even a broken watch can be right a couple of times a day.
“Hopeless thing, sand. Nothing grows in it. All fades.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via aperfectcommotion)
This simply is not so. http://prweb0.voicenet.com/~mslater/sand_bed.htm Even in the least fertile and driest places there is hope, hope something to grow. That is where hope gets it’s meaning.
All 31 Republicans on the House Energy Committee... →
pantslessprogressive:
Head meet desk. A thousand times over.
And obviously they’re illiterate…
3 tags
Águas de Março
The Waters of March
A stick, a stone,
It’s the end of the road,
It’s the rest of a stump,
It’s a little alone
It’s a sliver of glass,
It is life, it’s the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It’s a trap, it’s a gun
The oak when it blooms,
A fox in the brush,
A knot in the wood,
The song of a thrush
The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A...
“My hands want to hide in your hair, slowly stroke the depth of your hair while...”
– Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (La Rayuela)
(adapted from frenchtwist)
Oh my…
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must...”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (via liquidnight)
My mother read all the Milne books to me. I could hear her voice as I read this. I now understand her feelings as she read it. And she is with me now.
February 2011
8 posts
So what if I waft incense in my hair after I...
Hm What one?
kellyoxford:
Feeding the ego
kellyoxford:
What are some male/female relationship issues you’d like to hear me rant about?
A ‘female topic’ men don’t understand, or a ‘male topic’ women don’t understand.
Let’s work this out.
?
OK Why do women want rant about male/female relationship issues?
“Yours, with an affection that knows no Winter.”
– Cotton Mather, in correspondence dating from the “Great Snow” of 1717
(via newyorker)
Would have like this. I quite literally am Cotton Mather.
January 2011
2 posts
“Remembering is an act of creation. This led to Yadin Dudai, professor at the...”
– h+ Magazine
(myserendipities)
Remember to forget
November 2010
1 post
NO BLASTERS!: My TSA Encounter →
One MAJOR point here. This guy was entering the US & already in the country where his rights applied. Getting on a flight is completely different. The TSA sees this as a privilege & a choice therefore is doesn’t restrict your movement. Take a train or a boat. In this case it obviously restricted his free movement as a citizen. He had no alternative.
noblasters:
“You don’t need...
October 2010
1 post
“When a childless person says ‘Kids are terrible’, I hear “I’m broken inside”....”
– (via kellyoxford)
Parents are not qualified to judge the childless. What a self-serving remark…
March 2010
2 posts
“Do I have your loyalty?”
Ah yes. I think these are the kids of the “Golden Ears” of the 70’s who were willing to pay more for interconnects than their amplifiers. Amazing what the imagination can do.
merlin:
Last night, I was reading some of the angry Amazon reviews of the “Coppola Restoration” of The Godfather trilogy. Hi-larious.
Essentially, there’s a lot of bleating and whining and high nerd...
Way Wrong Zero
I love, love, love what Merlin writes. He’s so earnest in his words & feelings. But sometimes HIS love of language can add a layer of density over his succinct meaning that it takes more than a typical Inbox Zero to suss out. My money is on the reality that Alyssa can’t do enough sussing to catch the deeper meaning that she speedily passed by on her way to jumping conclusions.
I...
February 2010
3 posts
Media decomposition
Merlin is right on this. “Outlets” have to decide what their sales model is. Yeah you can wall your garden and charge folks to take a peek. BUT you better be pretty damn sure the folks will to buy those protected posies are the ones that will help you carry forward in the future. I just don’t see the payer types convincing other potential payers to pay.It smells like desperation...
Just you.
At the risk of basically NOT being just me I reblog and say what the hell he said.
merlin:
ohheygreat:
Anyone who does THAT dance to THAT song is never, under any circumstances, EVER a jackass.
[Everybody go read that; It’s very cool.]
Thanks, for this, my friend. SO super-nice of you to share this. Means a lot to me.
Truth is, I’ve got a weirdly thick skin for most of the blunter...
Engadget Turns Off Comments
Ooh maybe John Casasanta will make a duplicate of Engadget with comments. Cool new form of comment. If you can’t go to someone’s house and yell at them well then build an exact duplicate. Invite all the very best people to yell as loud as they can trying to drowned out each other. That’ll fix them.
merlin:
tj:
Most major tech sites would be a lot better off with comments...
December 2009
4 posts
Overseas and Overwhelmed – Pictory →
Not the way I remember it. They double teamed us. Anyone wanna buy a really nice 10’ runner?
The Daily Shoot - James Duncan Davidson - James... →
Such a great idea. Get & keep the gears lubed and working.