June 2012
85 posts
If you could record any voice to read the Sacred...
awkwardbutaccurate:
James Earl Jones (in the style of Mufasa) no question.
Johnny Cash in his later, hoarser days.
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You guys, Nick just called me “brogape” (bro + agape).
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leonardchris replied to your post: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.
I love that you just quoted this movie.
I would love it more if it didn’t accurately depict my feelings right now. Incidentally, it’s also CHRISTMAS IN JUNE, so…appropriate, I guess.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.
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goodmosquitobiteonagoodarm replied to your photo: The highly questionable flavored malt beverage my…
JOOSE!
I know. They’re currently painting their living room after 18 months of having swatches taped all over the walls. To get by, they’ve been self-medicating with these and pots of strong coffee.
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An education cartel? →
Then there are our own credentials. Che Guevara once declared that the duty of intellectuals was to commit suicide as a class; a more modest suggestion along the same lines is for the credentialed to join the uncredentialed in shredding the diplomas that paper over the undemocratic infrastructure of American life. A master’s degree, we might find, burns brighter than a draft card.
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“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink as we come into the bottom of...”
– Vin Scully
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Commando: A Poem →
austinkleon:
A man takes 10 bullets to his chest in front of his house.
A man takes a chair leg through his chest in hotel room.
A man has a large pipe thrown through him.
A man has his throat slit.
A man is impaled.
A man is scalped by a flying saw blade.
A man is axed in his groin.
A man has an arm cut off by a machete.
A man says “Slitting that little girl’s throat will be like...
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“Q. We in the newspaper business are told all the time that we’re dinosaurs, soon...”
– Gary again!
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“Q. You have a degree in creative writing, and are currently teaching it at...”
– NYT Q&A with Gary Shteyngart!
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“you say a lot of things on tumblr…”
– Nick
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“It is not then, the real which is the opposite of simulation—the real is merely...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime
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pantherhooves:
Cat Power - “Ruin”
The new...
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#incel
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I have to speak at graduation in 2.5 hours.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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WatchThe Welcome Wagon - “Remedy”
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goodmosquitobiteonagoodarm:
daysofchad replied to your post: I saw all these posters in London for some thing Mads Mikkelsen is gonna be in and I thought of you
BOYCOTT GOODMOSQUITOBITEBLAHBLAHBLAH.TUMBLR.COM
Boycott sadtalesaboutfoodandchildren.tumblr.com
Oh that’s not your URL? It should be.
Guilty as charged.
How much am I allowed to like that Kelly Clarkson song, “What Doesn’t Kill You”?
On Driving Vans with Teenagers (continued)
- I heard the first nine tracks of NOW 42. NOW 42.
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“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting...”
– 1Q84
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On Driving Vans with Teengers
Which is what I’ve been doing all day today for an overnight school trip.
- from 6:30-7:00 AM I made them listen to a combination of Dusty Springfield and Come On Feel the Illinoise. Some of the kids actually liked Suf and now when they request him, they ask me to play “the guy who wrote the song about the serial killer.”
- somewhat unusual musical request: Nirvana, by a...
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Erin: I just lolitsifoam.
Me: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
Erin: Laughed out loud in the street in front of a monastery GET WITH THE PROGRAM.
