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A Poet Reflects: “Why, I like,” said the mockingbird. “Technically it’s quite...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:56 +0800

A Poet Reflects: “Why, I like,” said the mockingbird. “Technically it’s quite...:

“Why, I like,” said the mockingbird. “Technically it’s quite accomplished. The way you change the rhyme-scheme’s particularly effective.”

The bat poet said: “It is?”

“Oh yes,” said the mockingbird. “And it was clever of you to have that last line two feet short.”

The bat said blankly:…

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Sat, 25 May 2013 07:22:09 +0800

thefrogman: Warp Dogs.

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:45:56 +0800

thefrogman:

Warp Dogs.

"Part of free speech is you being able to speak, but also you listening."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:51:09 +0800

“Part of free speech is you being able to speak, but also you listening.”

- President Obama admonishes the woman who heckled him during a speech. (via washingtonpoststyle)

"Everybody was very in awe of him because he was so much smarter than everybody. I’d been living in..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:50:51 +0800

“Everybody was very in awe of him because he was so much smarter than everybody. I’d been living in Cambridge where everybody was smarter than everybody, and I’d sort of decided that smart wasn’t that big of a deal. Not that it’s not a great advantage, but in his case I think it was a great disadvantage.”

- Mary Karr on David Foster Wallace. Eight years ago this month, Wallace gave his now-legendary speech on the meaning of life, later titled This Is Water.

Also see Karr on why writers write.
(via explore-blog)

"Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:56 +0800

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

- Marianne Williamson (via nofatnowhip)

nevver: I don’t really know what I’m doing

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:07:55 +0800

nevver:

I don’t really know what I’m doing

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Fri, 24 May 2013 07:27:55 +0800

laughingsquid: Limbo, Portraits of Men Half-Submerged in...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:38:27 +0800

laughingsquid:

Limbo, Portraits of Men Half-Submerged in Water

always wanted to do something like this.

reasonrules: hermione-ganja: A necessary message for all the...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:37:14 +0800

reasonrules:

hermione-ganja:

A necessary message for all the nice guys out there.

SCREAMING

nevver: Where you are heading

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:07:58 +0800

nevver:

Where you are heading

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nevver: Rear Window

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:34:47 +0800

nevver:

Rear Window

'Soldier' hacked to death in London

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:32:37 +0800

aljazeera:

British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are “strong indications” killing near army training barracks was terror-related.

Click here to read our news story.

[Warning: Images may disturb or offend some readers]

Don’t click. Just worried.

Neil Gaiman: Make bad art.

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:04:51 +0800

Neil Gaiman: Make bad art.:

austinkleon:

Neil Gaiman has released a book of his great commencement address, Make Good Art.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa…

the-exf: leadandlight: Burning oil field, Ahmadi Oil Fields,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:03:50 +0800

the-exf:

leadandlight:

Burning oil field, Ahmadi Oil Fields, Kuwait, 1991