January 2011
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“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb
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What my Yale interview meant to me:
I applied to Yale to appease my father, because the application was free, and because somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I have a .01% chance.
Last night, with a loosely attached head, I went to a Yale University alum’s house for an interview. Like I did for my Princeton interview a few months ago, I looked over general interview questions, specific ones that Yale interviewers tend to ask...
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I want to run to the end of a rainbow, not to find a pot of gold or a leprechaun, but to pick out a new color for you and me. I want to paint our lives with that color; a color no one but you and I can see. Like two mimes trapped inside a glass box, I want to paint walls around us so that all I have is you.
You. Your eyes. Your smell. Your hands. Your arms. You.
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“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats...”
– Sirius Black
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Anonymous asked: Wow, that anon doesn't know the first thing about you, and I'm saying that when I don't even know you that well. You don't even like being identified as a feminist, and sheitt you're way more than just a feminist, and you're rather humble if you ask me...
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Anonymous asked: please get over yourself. you walk around with this "i'm better than everyone around me" and "our generation is completely and utterly fucked (except for me, because i'm a feminist, and i'm so smart!)" air, and it's really really sad, but i guess it's also a bit funny. i'm not sure whether you realize it or not, but you're kind of a cunt. grow...
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This generation is screwed.
showbread:
We are the biggest economic illiterates ever. We care more about facebook and going to shows and hooking up and seeing who can be the most postmodern, than we do about trying to understand policies that will directly affect our lives.
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Not today, Anti-choicers.
rabbleprochoice:
You can write as many self-righteous and self-serving posts lamenting how many “lives” have been lost since Roe v. Wade was passed but us pro-choicers, we’ll be celebrating the lives that have been saved and grieving for those lives that were not this year. You’re not going to smear this day for us. Not today, not on the anniversary that took us a step towards giving women...
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Prison Nation | Lew Rockwell →
“In terms of population, the United States has 751 people in prison for every 100,000, while the closest competitor in this regard is Russia with 627. I’m struck by this figure: 531 in Cuba. The median global rate is 125.
Other factors include the criminalization of nearly everything these days, even passing bad checks or the pettiest of thefts. And judges are under all sorts of...
“What is soul? It’s like electricity — we don’t really know what it is, but it’s...”
– Ray Charles
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ireadintothings:
Nobody notices me and my life is really boring, but that’s better than getting into stupid shit like I used to. But I still wish someone would notice me without all that. When I write, I feel transparent, but I don’t feel invisible. I have no appetite -I just drink a lot of coffee. I think I am on my fourth cup and drinking more just makes me feel sleepy. I think I should eat...
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“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
– Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (via fyeahalan)
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts
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Anonymous asked: What can you say about this? http://ourpoeticlives.tumblr.com/post/2822465864/bitches-make-me-sandwiches
Anonymous asked: What can you say about this? http://ourpoeticlives.tumblr.com/post/2822465864/bitches-make-me-sandwiches
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
I started watching this movie based on the misconception that this was a documentary about Banksy not by Banksy. About twenty minutes in, I began wondering, “Why the hell am I watching this documentary on some pretentious French douchebag with an ego as tall as the Eiffel Tower?” But I continued watching it, intrigued by the real clips of infamous street artists doing their work, and...
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People who apparently can't take a joke, Vol. 1:
inothernews:
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood
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it's great that we have a day to celebrate martin...
fredrikdugless:
however, it’s complete bull shit that our nation chooses to ONLY recognize him. not that he doesn’t deserve it. but i don’t recall having a day off from school to celebrate malcolm x. or bayard rustin. or anyone else for that matter. so, what this country has been doing for years is telling all of us americans that martin king was the most important civil rights leader in...
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“Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and...”
– Banksy
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“Routine things can be deadly, carried to the extremes. I have a friend who says...”
– Jack Gladney, White Noise by Don Delillo
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“The irony is that I love women. I fall apart at the sight of long legs,...”
– Murray Kay Siskind, White Noise by Don Delillo
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White Noise by Don Delillo
Let start of by saying this first: this book made me laugh, quiet a lot. Not through slap stick comedy, but through the laughter triggered by coming face to face with the absurd something’s you’ve thought of before. This is the first “postmodern” book I’ve read, Oblivion by David Foster Wallace is still sitting on my bookshelf, so it was interesting to read about...
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The air is heavy with molecules of loneliness mercilessly sticking their tongue out at me. “I will be okay,” I say accidentally breathing them in along with reassurance; they tie the air in my stomach into knots. I’m okay, I’m okay, I’m okay.
I’m okay.
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Prince Zuko: What are you doing here? Uncle Iroh: I was about to ask you the same thing. What do you plan to do now that you’ve found the avatar’s bison? Are you going to keep him locked up in our apparetment? Should I make some tea for him? Prince Zuko: First I have to get him out of here. Uncle Iroh: AND THEN WHAT? You never think these things through. This is exactly what happened...
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sincerelyamc asked: You showed up randomly on my tumblr crushes and I looked at your posts and I like them :) So here I am following you now! :)
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Red Laughing
Playing around with personification of colors at 9 in the morning leads to this:
Red was comprised of three letters, three symbols signifying nothing by themselves, but telling a story when put together. R was for romantic, Red, she was romantic. When a young woman opened the door to a bouquet of flowers waiting on her doorstep, Red found her way to the young woman’s cheeks. Red, she jumped...
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