February 2010
24 posts
My aunt went into the ICU today as a precaution. She apparently looks okay. She had been coughing and they took her in.
When my Dad told me this on the phone, it felt like he was talking about the weather.
January 2010
40 posts
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“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to...”
– Emma Goldman
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan, “In the Valley of the Shadow” PARADE magazine (10 March 1996)
“Southern Point” - Grizzly Bear
I’ve been blogging for seven years as of today.
“I’m tired of being sad anyway. It’s muhc [sic] more fun to be at least partially happy.” - part of my first post from seven years ago
I’m glad that over that time, at various points, I took that lesson to heart.
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud (via thingsgohazy) (via suzywire)
The News From Lake Wobegon from the 01/16/10...
Wish.
I wish that what I read earlier was written by you. But I wish more that you didn’t write it. That you said it.
Mindcanvas
Things on the fringes of grey matter:
- Time-space synesthesia
- One thousand faces
- Dimensionality, life, and their intertwine
- Souls and mirrors
- We are writing We are writing We are writing We are writing We are writing …
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Eye contact
- Cochlear tubes
- Volunteering (don’t know where yet)
- MLK
- Gentrification and the war between class and...
“This Song Smells” - The Kleptones, a...
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Moral of the weekend: I love NPR.
Prairie Home Companion + This American Life = Amazing
Those two programs and family really brought a lot of perspective into my life this weekend.
What the fuck, fortune cookies. I was hungry in the airport and orange chicken sounded tasty. Oh, I guess I should grab one of these fortune cookies. That was just enough food for now. Time to open the cookie and what the fuck are you kidding me. Can’t I get one that says “Fortunes await you this year.” or “Your wisdom will bring you good luck.” or “That...
"Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups (times 360) →
“There is a lightness to you. I can’t really put my finger on it, but you seem happier.”
“Happier? No. This isn’t happiness because I’m not happy. It’s more like the bright grey or dirty white that diffuses through windows on an overcast day without any rain. It’s a day of vacation with nothing to do and no one to see. It’s rice when you...
Dilapidated cellos rung like the wings of fallen angels.
dethjunkie: Temper Trap - Science of Fear (Herve...
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.”
– Voltaire