February 2012
17 posts
Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show
This gets me every time.
Are you girls sisters?
Seriously, there’s no way you aren’t sisters.
January 2012
15 posts
What if Tim Tebow were Muslim? →
Again I ask, what if Tim Tebow were Muslim? He’s not. So maybe it doesn’t matter. There is no way to separate the man and the religion. Some people praise him for it, others recoil. When this happens, avid defenders of Tebow invoke freedom of religion. But as Tebowmania makes its way into politics, sports, religion and the everyday life of the mainstream United States, it is important to think...
I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like...
– To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
… and when we find in real life a desire for melodramatic effect, it is...
– Marcel Proust, from Swann’s Way. (via lmbeeman)
December 2011
15 posts
vera incessu patuit dea: cashcrab: A teenage girl... →
cashcrab:
A teenage girl brings her father into Forever 21 so she can pick out some new clothes for him to buy for her. Both of them have completely forgotten that they are standing on a floating blue-green sphere of crust and rock, which is speeding through the universe and is a mere speck…
Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of...
– Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011)
Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said. “I love you...
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via lesoufflecourt)
I said I wasn’t, but I am.
Rick Perry
I’m not even going to post the offending video because fuck him, he’s not getting any free publicity from me.
Christians are not persecuted in this country, school-sponsored prayer is directly in opposition to the Constitution, and America has never been in any sort of way a Christian nation. The idea of a “War on Religion” is just as baseless, amorphous...
The Hemingway Archive
I made an appointment to visit the Hemingway Archive at the JFK Library. This is the stuff I’ll be looking through tomorrow morning.
Yes, I’m obsessed, but come on, this shit is fucking cool.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection is the generous gift of Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s widow, to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and to Hemingway scholars and...
November 2011
21 posts
Here are some reasons why I haven't done my...
ofaquitaine:
Life is absurd
I will die someday
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →