January 2011
20 posts
#DearJohn
I mean, I don’t know, what the hell do they want from us? It seems like there’s an endless supply of very creepy “lawmakers” who are obsessed with taking ownership of the bodies of women. It’s one thing to say shit like “abortion is against my beliefs and I don’t want to do it” because, you know, that’s up to you. But going on this weird,...
It’s always beautiful until what is dead inside overwhelms the veneer. Everything tires.
'liberal' and 'left' are not insults
That time when you’re driving alone and stumble upon some blowhard named Dawson McAlister (or something) on the radio lecturing a pregnant teen about what God would want her to do with the pregnancy and you scream WHAT ABOUT ABORTION and look around to see you’ve garnered the attention of other drivers.
Robert Reich: The State of the Union: What the... →
robertreich:
The President will have to devote a big part of his speech to the economy, but which economy? Corporate profits are up but jobs and wages remain in the doldrums. People with lots of financial assets, or who are deemed “talent” by large corporations, are enjoying a solid recovery. But most…
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It’s nearly 3 AM and I have to be up in three hours to light a candle for Saint Mikhail. My belief in the importance of this act comes not from religion but the woman who believed in him so much she wanted her final resting place to be at the church dedicated to him. They say that time heals everything, but it isn’t true.
god hates blogs: #mylifeismediocre →
synecdoche:
today my store manager told me that i’ve made the most customer transactions because i excel at the register and i was like “oh, okay, that’s cool and everything but yo, real talk? i should mention that at this point in my life, hearing this is kind of depressing? on the short list of things i…
Dear Mr. Potter,: Lidiya B. →
I feel kind of odd that I’ve made this so public, but stories are meant to be shared, and his even more so.
dearmrpotter:
Dear Mr. Potter, Were it not for my little brother, I don’t think I would have found you. While I was busy trying to cope with the drastic but necessary changes that come with growing up, my little brother was carrying you around wherever he went, his nose often...
Kentucky Lawmaker: Drug Testing Welfare Recipients... →
WHYYYY, AMERICA? Why do you fail so much?
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via euphoriaaaa)
Escaping false reality and finding clarity in true reality, the Maum Meditation method. I tried really hard to do this, but I feel like it’s bordering on the essential plotline of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and while I love that movie, I have always been terrified of its premise. I don’t know where I’d be without my memories, and the images of myself and those who are...
Welcome to the day you go to Sephora and instead of walking past the night creams and anti-wrinkle eye creams, you look at them one by one and read the promises on the boxes and think to yourself, oh my god, I should have been doing this YEARS ago and now I’ve already gotten a really late start and shit am I squinting right now? I have to remember to smile less. And then, you put a couple of...
It appears that some on the right are feeling...
So, they're removing the word "Nigger" from Mark...
“Once for all; I know to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved...”
– Pip, Great Expectations
Someday, I will have a cottage with a cherry tree...
The year that was:
My homecoming,
Stagnation in the midst of an intense desire to grow,
Strength in the face of my greatest fears,
Cowardice at some of the same,
A meek voice, sometimes incessant, finally speaking out
The very last with my beloved Emaye, which I will cherish all the days of my future years.
And at the end of it all, with fifteen minutes to spare in 2010, I got a letter telling me how much my...