November 2011
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Robert Reich: Restore the Basic Bargain →
robertreich:
For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling.
That basic bargain created a virtuous cycle of higher living standards, more jobs, and better wages.
Back in 1914, Henry…
if you read one thing about the economy today, read this.
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April 2011
1 post
“Three Oranges
first time my father overheard me listening to
this bit of...”
– Bukowski
March 2011
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February 2011
4 posts
I'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon...
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Sweating
the sand was soft
but stuck everywhere.
we ran back to the house
sun-kissed and laughing,
knowing we’d fuck soon.
you can’t take off
your bathing suit,
she said.
my smile collapsed.
the frigid polyester
held tight.
repetition
is a cold bitch
who carries pen knives
and doesn’t sleep much.
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For my Comic Voice class
we had to do an homage/rip-off of one of our favorite comic voices. I choose to do Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, and choose Camus as the person I met on my controlled near death experience:
during
my first
near-death
experience, I had the honor of sharing a croissant with Albert Camus. I found him near the end of the blue tunnel, staring at St. Peter in deep contemplation....
January 2011
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December 2010
12 posts
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and this just feels like
spinning plates
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“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
adam. 7th grade, man. 7th grade.
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“He put some LSD in his matzo ball soup and took a trip to Israel”
– my communications professor
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this is fucking awesome this is fucking awesome im so tired im so tired im so tired
http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artists/fleet-foxes/performances/english-house
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“I want you to get out
And make it work.
I’ll be ok.”
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december 12, 2010
i find it funny now,
how long i laid on my back.
then
it was comfortable.
pillow over my face,
hiding from the
annoying break of day
the blinds struggled
to keep out.
i thanked them
for their valiant
effort.
but their duties
are relieved.
now
i sleep
face down.
zee zee zee
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As one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person’s dream, that is self-awareness.
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Yesterday
I became lucid during a short nap. I was driving in a car and the pedals were not responding. The car would not stop. I opened the door with the intention of jumping out, but then came to the realization that I was in a dream, and that if I jumped out of the moving car, the dream would probably end. Somehow, the car came to a stop, and the next thing I remember is sitting on my front porch with my...
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November 2010
4 posts
“Are they going to hurt us?”
“No, Donny. These men are cowards.”
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november 26, 2010
Thick white paint,
Static and entitled,
Barks orders.
Cold trunks
Rush upward
To get the last sip
From the martyred bottle.
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The tree was glad
To have plentiful golden
Leaves hanging playfully.
To have
Deep roots in everything
For thousands of blades
Of grass around.
She told herself again
And again
That it was Perfect,
That she was enough.
You’ve heard it before:
The rustling
Starts with prideful urgency
But always
Ends with a whisper
Of self-doubt.
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October 2010
4 posts
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Staring at the shadows at the edge of my bed Staring at the shadows at the edge of my bed Staring at the shadows at the edge of my bed Staring at the shadows at the edge of my bed
in spite of everything
imagineation:
in spite of everything which breathes and moves,since Doom (with white longest hands neatening each crease) will smooth entirely our minds -before leaving my room i turn,and(stooping through the morning)kiss this pillow,dear where our heads lived and were.
-e.e. cummings
mer-et-soleil:
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
— Herodotus
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Watch“Coyote Song” is the first official track from Sound Strike Songs, a benefit collection supporting legal defense for immigrants caught in Arizona’s immigration laws. The exclusive set of songs will be on sale viawww.thesoundstrike.net. For now, check out the desert-based video.
September 2010
4 posts
August 2010
5 posts
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“The flood carries you away; that’s life; we can’t judge or...”
– Jean Paul Sartre, Intimacy
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I love it when
right when I pull into my garage and turn the key to shut off the car, the song I’d been listening to has ended simultaneously.
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“At night,
We sip beers
Frothy and bitter as
Those cappuccinos we shared...”
– aa
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I will be buried
in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas until further notice. His prose is some of the most refreshing, intensely captivating material I’ve come across in a long time, and I’m saddened that it took me this long to discover him.
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we are
the kindred spirits
who clean the dust
from a worn coffee table.
July 2010
5 posts
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a small ink blot
on the center of my conciousness
tells me to stay awake;
to examine.
crookedindifference:
Grizzly Bear vs. The Knife...
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I want to learn French solely to read The Stranger...
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This is my friend Dylan Owen. He’s an...
June 2010
16 posts
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The Velvet Underground- Sweet Jane
Watchfoulwheat:
die antwoord at the creators project in nyc. june 26
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Two analagous quotes that just popped into my...
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
“It’s not a movie, no private screening
This method acting, well, I call that living.”
-Conor Oberst
Hmm..
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This guy is a champ.