January 2010
48 posts
barahsachman:
As inscribed in the Annual Convention Congress of the Hoboes of America held on August 8, 1894 at the Hotel Alden, 917 Market St., Chicago Illinois;
1.-Decide your own life, don’t let another person run or rule you.
2.-When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
3.-Don’t take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable...
“things about ghosts: we talked about them in my edith wharton class today. she...”
how to take care of yourself:
step one, acquire a knife. step two, learn how to open it at a moment’s notice and one handed step three, put it in your pocket.
implied step four: make sure you’re meaner and faster and more desperate than any prick who has half a mind to try and use your knife against you.
this is not a metaphor.
“after we get married you can interpret all my dreams and i can read your tarot...”
i am a mirror.
what happens next?
blocking emotions denying true feelings keeping another at arm’s length being defensive avoiding the truth refusing to look at facts pretending everything’s fine ignoring the warning signs
closing your eyes to what’s going on choosing not to know
feeling afraid to act reaching an impasse staying stuck refusing to decide
i feel like we’re almost the same person
“so how do we fix ourselves
and how to we re-orient our situation
so...”
“i woke up, because i needed water”
“[Coffee] is both hedonistic and ascetic. Coffee keeps the outrageous artist...”
– Carol Mavor, Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott (via Mapping the Marvellous) (via luminol) (via china-on-the-linen)
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
china-on-the-linen:
suicideblonde:
cheesywino:whatson:expectoomuch:
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you,...
“you cannot find peace by avoiding life…”
– The Hours (via lily-rose) (via china-on-the-linen)
drinking and puking, although physically exhausting, does not count as exercise
“Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass
And close my eyes, and let the quiet...”
– journey, edna st. vincent millay
My supervisor, coworker, and i had a really brilliant discussion of md2020 today over lunch, seeing as how my supervisor remembers her 2-fisted-maddog college years sneaking around and my coworker had no idea said beverage existed.
Monday has since been chrisened Maddogmonday.
http://www.bumwine.com/
I love my job I love my job I love my job I love my job
i regret to announce that i no longer endorse maddog; it is the devil’s drink; makes one behave like a fool.
SOULMATES
you know i have that hat, right?
two good ideas:
YELLOW TINTED SUNGLASSES :
Sort of an amusing idea, since the usual cliches talk about rose colored classes, but a nice ‘ol pair of pale yellow ray-bans from grandpa proved to be just the ticket for driving down windy roads this fine blistering god damn freezing bleak winter miserable morning. Everything looked more like a lazy summer afternoon, though I probably looked a lot like...
http://sunshineandmoonlight.wordpress.com/2007/12/2... →
This is about MS; an incredible lady who used to work in the office before going overseas for love & a few other things was diagnosed with MS a couple of years ago and although I rarely ever caught a glimpse of her less than cheerful or less than in control there were a few times where the cracks were visible. I remember seeing her struggle to maintain balance while getting a paper for a...
“Im convinced if i can make myself eat more nutrition and have like an activity...”
– sarah danger, via text
“The philosopher Nietzsche said there was no middle ground: You either said...”
– Free Will Astrology for the week of Dec. 31st.
