July 2011
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The thrill of the elusive
Vicomte de Valmont: Why do you suppose we only feel compelled to chase the ones who run away?
Marquise de Merteuil: Immaturity?
June 2011
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“you said you wanted evolution
the ape was a great big hit
you say you want a...”
– Marilyn Manson via Disposable Teens
andrea*kiss: Strange Girl Press →
andreakiss:
Now taking submissions! If you’d like to become a contributor to Strange Girl Press subscribe to the blog at http://strangegirlpress.wordpress.com and email submissions of your poetry, short stories, essays, etc. visual artwork including drawings, paintings or photography and the like to…
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Around and around
“Proust spent most of his war years writing and revising, feverishly adding thousands of pages to his work about the destruction of both the past and our fantasy of the past, and about the problem of hope that takes the form of illusion. The mourning that Proust expresses most eloquently is not for the loss of what was possessed; it is for the loss of what was, on the contrary, never...
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“Every now and then I’ll run into really good writers who have nothing to say....”
– Neil Gaiman, Advice for Aspiring Writers (via quotare)
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The Bright and the Dark
I owned and read this book many times when I was young. I loved it. It inspired a macabre fascination with the darker areas of the human psyche. This book kickstarted a lasting interest in the study of psychology although I did not go on to pursue psychology. (My enthrallment with this book was also probably responsible for the flowering of my goth-damage!)
The things one remembers…
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Ground Control wants to know
Jemaine:
Does the space cold do funny things to your nipples
Making them all pointy, Bowie?
And do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae
Transmitting data back to Earth?
Bret:
Data back to Earth
Jemaine:
Bet you do, you freaky old bastard, you.
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Wanderlusting
For a few weeks last month, off and on, I indulged in daydreams about living in New York. Not daydreaming about trying to make a splash in any kind of endeavor or to achieve a specific cherished goal. I just want to live there and to enjoy living there without a defined purpose accompanying it. I am succoring this desire a bit by visiting NYC the last week in July. When it will be hot and...
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“what goes between the eyes downtown
blue spark”
– X via Blue Spark
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“Nobody makes me bleed my own blood! Nobody!”
– White Goodman via Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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Factory Superstars
cabbsandkings:
Images courtesy of weheartit.
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“Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don’t miss”
– Ratt via Slip of the Lip
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When Insults Had Class
curator-of-curiosities:
”[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
-Virginia Woolf on James Joyce
wnyc:
icky-thump:
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“Does he really think big emotions come from big words?” - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
In your...
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Over-usage of terms
“Can we just agree that ‘infographics’ are often just graphics with really glib conclusions?”
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“well, it’s a futuristic modern world
but things aren’t what they...”
– Agent Orange via Bloodstains
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Summatime
It’s a gorgeous day in San Francisco but it sure does bring out the aesthetic under-achievers.
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Dear Papyrus
Eight dollars for a birthday card? Really? Yes there is a festive splash of glittery stuff to the design on front and maybe the card stock is of a nicer quality than drugstore cards. And the card itself is slightly larger than standard greeting cards of yore but EIGHT DOLLARS? Is the card made from repurposed birchwood and put together with fairy dust and unicorn semen?
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“I sobered up and then the next day happened.”
– Me. Said many times in the past. Probably will be said again at times in the future. Hopefully with less frequency.
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Dylan redux
“I just don’t believe in winning through intimidation. Unless, of course, I’m doing the intimidatin’.”
It’s like someone opened the door and let James Dean right the eff through.
hellogiggles:
TOP TEN BEST THINGS DYLAN MCKAY HAS EVER SAID
by Almie Rose
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“I will be your lover and exorcist.”
– Gun Club via Jack on Fire
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Word Whoring
One of my favorite sites to visit is Phrontistery.info. A great place for obscure words and vocabulary resources. I have a bit of a fetish for (adoration for? nostalgic pining for?) obscure and archaic words. I regret that some of the more bizarre ones are fading into oblivion even as the modern lexicon gathers others such as LOL, OMG, wut? and etc.
A word that caught my snarky fancy during...
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“The world belongs to the meat eaters, Miss Clara. So if you have to take it...”
– Paul Newman’s hottie character, Ben Quick, in Long Hot Summer.
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Marquis de Sade: It is an aphrodisiac, is it not, Abbey, to have absolute power over someone.
Abbey: You are not the anti-christ, Marquis. You are just a malcontent who can spell.
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“Let me cut your cake with my knife.”
– AC/DC, via Let Me Put My Love Into You
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of...”
– The incomparable Oscar Wilde
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Untold hours
is what I expect it is going to take to get familiar with the ins and outs of using/posting in tumblr. I don’t have that much downtime at work for all this blog larnin’ stuff. But I’ll give it a go. I mean, everybody is doing it, dahlink.
What would Andy Warhol do?
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