January 2011
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Family Vacation He came alive for me when I saw his grave as a young boy. We drove for miles while I imagined spurs and holsters and people running out in front of his horse then dropping to the ground with holes in their hearts, making little dust clouds on the streets of their towns. We drove many miles, out of our way, out into nowhere. When our car stopped, I got out and walked to a...
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December 2010
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Dear twelve-year-old dumbasses who live in my...
flannelowl: If it’s nighttime and you’re wearing black shoes, black pants, and a black hoodie with the hood pulled over your head while you’re running across the street right in front of my car, don’t be surprised if I happen to run you over and kill you.  It’s nothing personal, guys, it’s just that I’m probably going to kill you, and that’s just the way it is. Sincerely, John Everydriver
Dec 29th
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“The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...”
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
Dec 29th
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Fran Lebowitz in HBO's "Public Speaking" (By... →
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Bringing Essential Nutrients to Undernourished... →
I received this for a holiday gift—a donation made in my name.
Dec 27th
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Buy A Desk for Young Students in Malawi →
From the Lawrence O’Donnell show on MSNBC: “The Last Word.”  I gave a holiday gift through this charity.
Dec 24th
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“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
– former President George W. Bush (via libraryland) It’s she, George, he or she.
Dec 23rd
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An anecdote from my Kierkegaard professor at the...
fuckyeahexistentialism: In the original text of Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard plays with the Danish language to describe humanity’s relation to the self. He writes that our selfhood is not a “gave” but an “opgave.” This roughly translates to say that the self is not a gift, but a given. In other words, the fact that we have a self is an assignment rather than a blessing. We are not given a...
Dec 15th
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ListenJeff Beck, featuring Joss Stone —...
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