February 2012
14 posts
Lies, Damned Lies and Piracy - Forbes →
Don’t act like you need to censor the internet in order to save your industry. You’re not on the brink of collapse, you’re more lucrative than you’ve ever been, and you’re not fooling anyone.
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
– Rosa Luxemburg (via only-a-voice
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“What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a...”
– Lierre Keith, on gardening as a vegan; October 8, 2009 on Underground Wellness Radio (via felicefawnpersonal)
Life isn’t “pure and death-free,” is it? It never can be.
“Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing...”
– “Cruising Utopia : The Then and There of Queer Futurity” by Jose Esteban Munoz (via sistahmamaqueen)
January 2012
6 posts
The Penis Mom →
“When I was little I wanted to be a lot of things: Johnny Carson’s replacement; A Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader so good I was the only one on the team. I wanted to be a lot of things, but I never — I PROMISE you — ever wanted to grow up to be someone known as ‘The Penis Mom.’”
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
47 posts
“You have to also place it in the context of the world you live in, else...”
– asim @ shadesong: Friday
“PTSD is not actually helpful protective armor but rather a set of massively...”
– rachelmanija: A User’s Guide to PTSD, Part IV: Postscript
Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To... →
OVERLAND PARK, KS–Stung by flagging album sales and Eminem’s supplanting him as Middle America’s worst nightmare, shock rocker Marilyn Manson has embarked on a door-to-door tour of suburbia in a desperate, last-ditch effort to shock and offend average Americans.
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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey
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I love the look of words on skin, the play of letters against bare flesh. We are marked by our own imaginings.
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“Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions.
The first is asked when it’s...”
– Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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“Do you think of me
as often
as I think
of you?”
– Richard Brautigan, “Please”
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“Before 1846, the vast majority of religious and medical opinion held that pain...”
– The day pain died: What really happened during the most famous moment in Boston medicine - The Boston Globe
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“I don’t have the time to hate.”
– Akira Kurosawa
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“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
– Gustav Mahler
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“If you don’t find a teacher soon, you’ll live this life in vain....”
– Bodhidharma
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“All know the Way, but few actually walk it.”
– Boddhidharma
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“In the midst of falsehood, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light...”
– Gandhi
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“To be an artist means to never avert your eyes.”
– Akira Kurosawa
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“Elvis he died young - Jesus he died younger.”
– Greg Brown
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“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
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“A lot of sf is about setting up a catastrophe in the same way a joke is about...”
– truepenny: UBC: Troll: A Love Story
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“Sometimes making stuff up feels a lot like Coyote* running across the empty...”
– Neil Gaiman: “Well, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.”
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“I SENT YOU EMAIL, MAIDENS ALL
I THINK YOU ALL DELETED IT
I MADE YOU ALL A...”
– marnanel @ I made you a Tam Lin, but I eated it.
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“Writing is like sex. Even bad sex is mostly better than none. You just have to...”
– The Flamboyant Cuttlefish - Letter to a Young Writer