May 2013
29 posts
Video: Stephen Colbert on David Koch and PBS
newyorker:
Stephen Colbert’s take on Jane Mayer’s piece in this week’s issue, documenting public television’s self-censorship of a program that it feared might anger one of its largest donors, the billionaire industrialist and conservative political activist David Koch: http://nyr.kr/18ln2Vo Read Mayer’s piece in full here: http://nyr.kr/18R2IMG
Gbam.
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“And I’m the motherfucking monster.”
– Cookie
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umo ngu
depression is a thing only foreigners have, a disease for nde bekee on plump couches
there is no word for depression in Igbo, though there is a word for weariness— umo ngu, when you’re depleted inside
I used to watch my uncle whom we called papa, working
he was a builder with a builder’s hands, hands that worked rock and mortar to cement, cement to concrete, and heaved blocks...
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“One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning...”
– Jon Lovett’s commencement address to Pitzer College. (via theatlantic)
thebronzemedal:
Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie in it’s auditorium for seniors. My coworker, who selects the film for each week, just sent out an email noting that not many “good movies” are scheduled to be released on DVD this July, and asked if anyone had recommendations. It would be a great idea if I suggested he show the senior citizens Spring Breakers, right?
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you are loved most
when memories of you
are like shame
coating their tongues with
salt, with metal
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thetargetbird:
I know futility is the size of the bird in my heart whose wings always celebrate the arrival of a now
My weakness is that gravity accumulates in seeds blowing about the street until they pile to a paralysis
There is no flutter a noun can’t mend into a pile of paralysis
I hear the wide world spins itself into a pile of paralysis
I also hear you get caught up in chants...
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one-way flames
messagestoanonymous:
the vending machines wouldn’t accept her pocketful of pennies for a snack, so she decided to throw them into the wishing well. her wishes sunk together with the penny; they do not transpire, but instead find home as anchors grazing detritus at the bottom. she cursed at the flames of a paper fire for having no undo option. it has a penchant for destruction and wouldn’t piece...
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Brutal Gun.
descriptionwithoutlabels:
Hating too quickly, stopping reading about clothes that keep my promises. There are lakes to devour, reefbeds to sing asleep. Dreams may drink wistfully, but you are too young for noxious nostalgia, and I am too drunk for assassination, for naked poison upon secrets.
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eighty-four
dickfromafrica:
this day’s become all speckled shade and wind chimes and clinking ice in sweaty glass
a wasp bumps against the screen over and over and over like something’s gonna change.
atheist, she announces. me, the great inarticulator I stumble on the words I never needed to name it
who knows what’s what what whats
could be gas behind a curtain that’s making monkeys fly...
‘Vigilante Copy Editor’ - NYTimes.com →
housingworksbookstore:
“In the sculpture park at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, one of the nation’s oldest art schools, a clandestine struggle is under way — over grammar. In recent months, a vandal (or team of vandals) has used permanent markers to correct grammar and punctuation mistakes on the informational placards near the sculptures.”
Click through for a video! Nerdy detective work!
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Pretty Little White Girls
jdscottinternet:
Sometimes I think OH BOY, GET READY FOR SOME NEW RACIST MEMES! I look at these media reports through the lens of my own whiteness—or rather—the racist white folks who find humor in stereotypes of black people. And when someone in real life, in the spotlight, matches the stereotype of underprivileged and undereducated, there is a certain giddiness in the public reaction,...
All the girls from the 504 please come back and collect the belongings you’ve dropped on the floor. This was really rude of you.
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April 2013
36 posts
If I wrote crappy vignettes about my best friend
fireoutside:
Hope lays with me holds hands with me and doesn’t say anything about a train. Hope sings and dances in the rain with me. She makes eye contact and nods with me. Hope quiets me and speaks instead. Hope spends long days in bed and preforms on stage. Hope in an acronym is Joyfully Uttered, Lovely In Aura
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cordeliagablewrites:
As though our feet were dipped in fire.
We were waving, sinking below the sand and arm.
The golden hiss of saffron at dusk, flying with gulls
our feet were dipped in fire.
“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it...”
– Winona Ryder
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4/19
daughtersofuwa:
She would write a sentence just to hold a day in place. If they put her in a desert, she’d write a window out of it. They gave her a spoon of water and she used it to write an ocean.
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Lust
blogut:
If only he could touch her, Her name like an old wish In the stopped weather of salt On a snail. He longs to be Words, juicy as passionfruit On her tongue. He’d do anything, Would dance three days & nights To make the most terrible gods Rise out of ashes of the yew, To step from the naked Fray, to be as tender As meat imagined off The bluegill’s pearlish Bones. He longs to be An...
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4/22
daughtersofuwa:
I hate the ones that cry mercury, as if they’re too good for water.
I especially hate this one, who just stares into the mirror like a doll as I’m trying to paint her face. The metal keeps bubbling up in her lower lids and I’ve wiped the melting trail off her cheek countless times. I only brought so many skin replacements and if she keeps burning her face off, I’m just going to...
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Watch
freefolking:
cosmo tip: as you reach climax scream in perfect valyrian “dracarys”
The thirst made me follow.
