January 2012
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December 2011
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“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via bbook)
In Which This Might Be the Last Post For a While
I find myself having less and less to write these days. It’s not because anything is wrong, in fact it might be because things are good, but I just don’t feel like I want to be writing in this blog as much as I used to.
In the past I’ve kept up with things regularly and wrote about religion, politics, news, school, whatever has been on my mind. And I could keep writing about my...
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The Onion - Mummers
Ha! Mummers.
MUMMERS MUMMERS MUMMERS!
Jon Hamm told me congratulations on my engagement....
November 2011
15 posts
“We are not good despite our imperfections; it is our connection with our...”
– Jay Smooth at TEDxHampshire, on remembering that we can (and must) engage racism without forcing ourselves into a binary where racist word or action = bad person… which of course shuts down conversation completely and prevents us from correcting ourselves or others. Watch the video, seriously. (via...
“The assertion that Europe’s crisis proves that the welfare state doesn’t work...”
– PAUL KRUGMAN, “Legends Of The Fail,” in the New York Times (via inothernews)
Seriously, Krugman is right about almost everything every single time.
In Which Love Is Inward-Facing Also
There are so many things in modern society that make people feel unloved and unlovely. Ugly and unworthy of being loved fully. Fixated on supposed flaws and unable to see themselves as unbelievable human beings. Whether we feel guilty because we just ate fast food for the second time this month, un-beautiful because we’re not stick thin, unforgiven and fallen because we’ve committed...
“In stark contrast to today’s zeal for issuing subpoenas to the White House,...”
– Rep. Ed Markey, D-MA., shredding the Republican Party for its hypocritical Solyndra witch hunt. Republicans have already received 85,000 pages of documents from the White House and have found no wrongdoing, but issued a politically-motivated subpoena last Thursday demanding more pages immediately...
“Oh, what a ‘loverly’ time we are having in post-racial America. Except when the...”
– Columnist COLBERT I. KING, in the Washington Post (via inothernews)
October 2011
11 posts
“Veteran For Peace member, Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to...”
– Official statement from the group VETERANS FOR PEACE on last night’s Occupy Oakland police crackdown. (via inothernews)
A Marine veteran, struck in the head by a... →
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HERE is a video about my book of final world knowledge, THAT IS ALL.
AND HERE is information about where and when you may see me ON TOUR.
That is all.
John Hodgman is the greatest, you guys.
“If you legalize marijuana, for example, would it affect drug cartels? It...”
– Since 2006, 40,000 people have been murdered in Mexico as drug cartels battle each other and the Mexican military. Journalist Ioan Grillo traces how Mexico came to control drug trafficking in El Narco. (via nprfreshair)
In Which I Think About This Past Year and What It...
It seems hard for me to believe that last year I was finishing my thesis, ready to get out of Charlotte and go anywhere else, and about to travel to Nashville for my five-year college reunion at Trevecca and also to talk to a faculty member there about my idea for a minor in architecture (http://studymodel.tumblr.com/post/1488371323/in-which-im-inspired). I didn’t like being in Charlotte at...
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September 2011
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In Which I Think About What Love Is
It’s interesting how suddenly life can change, isn’t it? I was talking to a friend from school the other day about how we’re both dating and have jobs now, and how when life changes it seems to do so in a big way quickly.
The church I’ve been going to for almost a year has a lot of young couples, and it seems like babies are being born all over the place lately. I also got...
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August 2011
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“(Michele) Bachmann paid $180,000 to hand out 6,000 tickets (to the Ames straw...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, on reports that Michele Bachmann paid for her supporters’ $30 tickets for Iowa’s grand experiment in democracy, on The Colbert Report.
What a joke.
(via inothernews)
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“Rick Santorum? He didn’t get half of what Ron Paul got. (Santorum) lost to the...”
– JON STEWART, on the mainstream media (and even Fox “News”) all but ignoring GOP Ames straw poll second-place finisher Ron Paul, on The Daily Show.
This whole bit was pretty epic.
(via inothernews)
In Which the Adult Life is the Busy Life
One of the things I like about Tumblr as opposed to other blog sites I’ve used (WordPress, Blogger, etc.) is that even though I might not write an actual text post in a long time, I still feel like I’m taking in information, connecting with friends, and can contribute something if I want to. It’s not the kind of situation where my blog sits idle when I’m not writing on it;...
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