September 2011
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“Trying to teach someone how to secure and maintain a relationship with substance...”
– Jon Corpora
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Sixteen Bit Fingerprint: Looking for good date... →
socialquarantine:
is absolutely painful. Here’s some gems I stumbled across:
Visiting a nursing home or a rest home
Free factory tours
Go out with some clip boards and do a survey in a public place. Use funny questions about how many times people brush their teeth and what they had for dinner.
Lay trash bags on the floor and eat spaghetti together with your hands.
I’ve done all of...
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The fact that police won't lay a hand on
socialquarantine:
these people:
but have no problem netting, macing, arresting, and physically harming peaceful protesters on Wall Street for no reason:
is fucking disgusting, and if you’re not ashamed to have to call yourself American yet, you’re not paying attention.
America, the land of convenient freedoms.
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“Do not leave children to their own devices near a lion’s cage.”
– Good Manners for All Occasions, Margaret E. Sangster, 1921. From Wicked Etiquette by Sarah Kortum, 1995. (via ingridrichter)
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“I don’t trust words, I trust actions.”
– (via fkilleen)
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“I once thought that truth was eternal, that when you understood something it was...”
– Lucy Grealy, Mirrorings
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“Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play...”
– Chick Corea
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Talking about feta cheese as our lovers
Jowi: Feta cheese is a heterosexual male, so I get to marry it.
David: Alright, but I'm the wealthy maharaja, so HE WILL DINE WITH ME TONIGHT. You can be the writer.
Jowi: Damn, why do I have to be the writer?
David: I mean...you get that sexy love song with him...and I almost rape him...but then he dies in the end so neither of us get him. Feta Man Rouge?
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And this...is a real thing.
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“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb
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Neil Gaiman: 8 Good Writing Practices →
ilovereadingandwriting:
Write.
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for...
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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"'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Soon To Be in the Dustbin... →
HRC, thank you for all that you do.
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"7 Scientific Ways Coffee Gives You Super Powers" →
Cool!! I’d like to see the studies’ documentation, but nonetheless—it smells hot.
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Riding on the impulse: 10 Facts about Kissing →
tasteslikesteph:
10. The endorphins produced by kissing are 200 times more powerful than morphine.
9. Kissing reduces anxiety and stops the ‘noise’ in your mind. It increases the levels of oxytocin, an extremely calming hormone that produces a feeling of peace.
8. During a kiss, natural antibiotics are…
This is remarkable.
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners . . . All of us who do creative...”
– Ira Glass