December 2010
Resolutions
In 2005 I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s Resolutions any more, as I never stick to them anyway. Ho ho, ho hum.
This year I will:
Do all of my reading on time for school, and therefore be well informed and able to contribute at least something to every seminar.
Continue working out every day, and not get lazy and skip “just one day” because that is...
“And the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much, and...”
– Charles Bukowski (via frappelatte)
Maybe we will read poetry instead.
Let’s read something together. You be Harper.
That awkward moment where this is your 200th post, and you haven’t really blogged in a few days because you wanted to save this landmark for something important. So then you end up wasting the opportunity because “fuck it.”
I’m back home for the holidays. I’m sick and miserable, and spent the day curled up on the couch reading, which was nice, and coughing which...
WatchThis is the best video I have ever seen on Cracked. Absolutely balls-tighteningly-fantastic.
It’s about time travel. And a power point presentation. And there’s a cake in it too!
I think that I have developed a sixth sense
First off, yes, I know, pressure, balance, proximal heat, hunger, all of these are sensual responses giving feedback from our physical relationship with the rest of the world. Whatever. The human being has somewhere around the high-teens of senses.
But I think that I have developed one more, from my overuse of computers and the internet. I can sense my “clipboard” when I’m using...
“He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits...”
– Elliot Perlman (Seven Types of Ambiguity) (via louielouie) (via evenbirds)
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
-Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
“In September 1939 a dentist in Viceroy, Louisiana placed a human tooth into a jar of Coca Cola, and let it stand overnight. The next morning, Hitler invaded Poland.”
-David Mamet, A Sermon
endlesslyunamusing asked: It was great chatting with you! Do you have an instant messenger service?
“They shot the six cabinet ministers at half-past six in the morning against the wall of a hospital. There were pools of water in the courtyard. There were wet dead leaves on the paving of the courtyard. It rained hard. All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut. One of the ministers was sick with typhoid. Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain. They tried to hold...
“‘I adore simple pleasures,’ said Lord Henry, ‘They are the last refuge of the complex.’”
-The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wild
“I want to sleep with you. I don’t mean have sex. I mean sleep. Together. Under...”
– (via frappelatte)
Lonesome Alex.
“Plays don’t have messages. If you’ve got a message you wanna say, use Western Union.”
-Sam Shepard on Playwriting
