February 2012
16 posts
Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolution List- 1942
1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes — look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay...
where children sleep. amazing photography by James... →
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...
– Albert Camus (via myheadisweak)
Explaining socialism to a republican. →
I met you in the upper room
Of a house where I slept with the angels
From hell...
– The Horrible Crowes
After a while, okay, you’ve worked twenty years or twenty-five years. Okay, so...
– —Meredith Monk, from Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, no. 17, 1984
~Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
(via beingblog)
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire,...
– Salman Rushdie (via apoplecticskeptic)
Was it ever worth it? Was there all that much to gain? Well we knew we missed the boat And we’d already missed the plane We didn’t read the invite We just dance at our wake All our favorites were playing So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
January 2012
15 posts
Sandra, I need an answer
You need to get your story straight
I can’t...
– Sandra Partial-Anthony Raneri
We finally realized that people of difference... →
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...
– Carl Sagan
Forgetting.
Now wait, wait, wait for me, please hang around I’ll see you when I fall asleep.
Sooner or later i’m going to forget
Leaving without a trace
And...
– I’m going to forget-Attack in Black
#what10kbuys →
December 2011
9 posts
"You think graffiti is ugly? Gigantic posters of...
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens — but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love...
November 2011
11 posts
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.
– Pablo Neruda, from Twenty Poems of Love
(viaI illputaspellonyou)