January 2010
vela:
“This Will Be Our Year” by The Zombies
December 2009
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constantwanderlust:
thewordunheard:
I bought a pair of size 6 jeans today. 2010 is gonna be a good year.
I hope you meant this as a joke. I can think of a lot of awful things that could befall someone that would have absolutely nothing to do with their clothing size.
Here’s hoping my dashboard tomorrow isn’t filled with lists of resolutions like “lose 10 lbs”, but instead with ones like...
bibliotheque:
Mountain Goats/This Year
i’m...
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A writing exercise, if you're into that sort of...
My friend and colleague E Bruce Hoch supplied the prompt:
Make up the name of a book. Make up a character, or use, say, a much templated, pale, religious, barely thirty-year-old (oh, those dashes!). Teach us about the made-up character through the reading or the handling or the acquiring, of the made-up book. Limit yourself to ten minutes writing. Don’t look up from your work. Pay...
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call me Scrooge, but....
coreena:
when Christmas is done, it’s done. Take down your decorations.
No, no, no.
Here’s the deal, for next year:
After July 4, you get a nice break from all holiday decorations. Come October you can begin decorating with autumn-related knickknacks and some Halloween decorations. About mid-month you can go ahead and fulfill your goth youth fantasies and really gussy up the place with...
Zen Principles of Aesthetics
ckck:
FUKINSEI (imbalanced) Asymmetry, odd numbers, irregularity, unevenness, imbalance is used as a denial of perfection as perfection and symmetry does not occur in nature.
KANSO (simple) Elimination of ornate and things of simplicity by nature expresses their truthfulness. Neat, frank and uncomplicated.
KOKOU (austere) Basic, weathered bare essentials that are aged and unsensuous. Evokes...
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Resolutions for 2010
I love the new year. The fresh start, the hope and possibility. I love making resolutions, even ones I know I’ll never meet or stick to.
I don’t view resolutions as hard goals. Rather, resolutions exist as a kind of governing pattern for behavior. Making them at the turn of the new year enables me to practice them through January; usually enough time to turn resolutions into habits.
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(but not that)
Cardboard Hill
seoulbrother:
When boys first hear “man versus nature,” they realize that some past experience of survival— a wicked jump, their first, harried descent down some asskicker or simply being the first— had a name. At once, all the fear and courage of a Jack London story tangle up with the bumpy, panicked memories of a rapid butt-on-dirt descent.
In Vancouver, Wash., past the rabbit fields and over...
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“This requirement of simplicity is rooted in my belief that choices are...”
– Rands (via merlin)
Choices don’t limit a writer. If you’re not writing, it’s not because of the choices you have. It’s because you haven’t made writing important enough yet.
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eat this not that
krispayne:
from what I can tell, this guy is a complete fucking idiot. He’s on tv right now trying to tell people that they can eat 18 wings from denny’s rather than a caprese sandwich, because the calories are the same.
Dude. Dude. Calories aren’t the ONLY thing in food.
Like, a salad isn’t the equivalent on 10.5 krispy kreme donuts. Maybe in calories, but not in sugar, at the very least.
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A Complete List of Books I Read in 2009
stevencloud:
1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - A pretty decent parable.
2. The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan - This book is a must read for anyone who likes to think about stuff.
3. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain - Wonderful book of short stories.
4. Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by...
“If you want to defeat the right, we must defeat corporatism. This is a truth I...”
– The 1990s Are Over. Has Anyone Noticed? (via azspot)
The bigger problem: the right doesn’t have a lock on corporate alliances.
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“It was not a street anymore but a world, a time and space of falling ash and near night. He was walking north though rubble and mud and there were people running past holding towels to their faces or jackets over their heads. They had handkerchiefs pressed to their mouths. They had shoes in their hands, a woman with a shoe in each hand, running past him. They ran and fell, some of them,...
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At the close of 2009
On the Line by Eric Ripert and Christine Muhlke - awesome, if you’re at all interested in seeing how a top-notch restaurant is run. Empire Falls by Richard Russo - I have no desire to know what life is like in a small town in Maine. This book painted that life in painstaking detail. Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn - An interesting read, though a little dated. Falling Man by Don Delillo - Excellent. The...
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whitemystery:
theniftyfifties:
mogadonia:...
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jesuisperdu:
tublickpastry &...
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wow a lot of you are super negative right now. i...
toridactyl:
ooh imagine being grateful for that.
ckck:
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas —...
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“Late Night, Maudlin Street” by...
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