February 2012
6 posts
fuckyeahvalhalla:
“It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via perfectlylogicalparadox)
kevinbolk:
Ya’ know, when some guys loudly pronounce how much the LOOOOVE nerdy girls, it would be nice if they actually meant nerdy girls and not “hot chicks with glasses”.
'Dwell on the beauty of life.
whatshipsarefor:
Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.’
-Marcus Aurelius.
January 2012
24 posts
imaginando: don’t expect any lover or friend to be... →
nezua:
don’t expect any lover or friend to be completely untouched by the poisoned society in which we’ve been raised. not unless you want to be crushed with disappointment time and time again. the best you can hope for is that underneath the scabs formed in reaction to a long and sustained onslaught,…
The evolution of me!: madamethursday: The amount... →
nezua:
madamethursday:
The amount of white whine in comments for the poster about racism and “fair skin” is kind of making me facepalm so much right now.
Oh, fellow white people. That ad? Was mild. It was a mild and rather polite way of trying to tell you something that’s been an obvious fact of life for so many others in this world. But instead of engaging, you react defensively because,...
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research team, led by...
ad astra per aspera: 17.01.2012 →
whatshipsarefor:
I thought travelling would make me bolder. I seem to have become shyer.
I am comfortable exploring by myself, and going for adventures when no one is looking. (Especially to places with interesting names and interesting artefacts; last week I discovered the Queen’s Butt, which is not what it…
This sounds, oh, so very familiar.
I hope whatever you plan, or don’t...
“One of the smartest things the Nazis did was to co-opt rationality and to co-opt...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
The View From My Brain: do you ever info-dump on... →
goldenheartedrose:
nofrigatelikeabook:
It feels like I’m writing a mental diary entry, or having a one-sided conversation with someone who never responds. I’ll start doing it without realizing it while I’m pacing around or sitting on my bed or when I’m trying to fall asleep.
It’s…
I rarely do this with “myself”. That is, I’m alone, but it’s usually in the form...
Beautiful Boy - Lisa Ekdahl
December 2011
24 posts
“We’re living in a den of thieves. And it’s contagious.”
– Regina Spektor (via nezua)
maymay:
The next plan could be no plan, to be not to have a plan. You could wander, probably for anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months, and let that be the thing you did before the thing you’re going to do.
Where it’s at.
Derrick Jensen: There’s this absolutely extraordinary book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, and in this book he describes how it was that men — people, but men in this case — who had taken the Hippocratic Oath could work in Nazi death camps. And what he found was that many of the doctors who worked in the death camps actually cared very deeply for the health of the inmates. And, you know, Mengele was, you know, horrible. But a lot of the sort of straight-line doctors were just — they would do whatever they could. They would give them an extra scrap of potato to eat or - the inmates. Or they would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. Or they would -
Amy Goodman: To keep their experiments going?
Derrick Jensen: No, no, no. They would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. They would do this to protect the inmate for that day. They would put them to bed, you know. They would actually do everything — if they were in pain, they would give them aspirin to lick. They would do what they could to help, except for the most important thing of all, which is they wouldn’t question the existence of the entire death camp itself. So they would find themselves working within the rules, however they could, to try to improve conditions marginally. And in retrospect, of course, that’s just not sufficient. And as a longtime activist, I see myself and other activists doing the same thing, that what we do is we do everything that is allowed by those in power to attempt to stop their destruction. But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way to use their rules to actually stop them, they change the rules.
“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
True for so many things.
“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and...”
– - George R.R. Martin (via indisposablehero)
This is one of the most beautiful quotes I think I have ever read. I love it, and I will treasure it for my entire life.
(via draodoir-mna)
Lord of the Rings Scholar to Write Hobbit Cookbook... →
fuckyeahthehobbitmovie:
Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar got a book deal with Quirk Books to write A Hobbit’s Cookbook: Eleventy-one Sweets, Snacks, and Savories Inspired by Middle-Earth. The “unofficial culinary journey” will not actually be exclusive to hobbits but will also feature foods for “elves, orcs, and even Gollum.” Gollum eats? Okay.
Anyway, recreating Hobbit food is not a new...
