February 2012
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Recently, however, researchers stumbled on a... →
“The Mystery of the Suicide Tourist” by Phil Zabriskie
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“He put his arms on the table and rested his head on them. He ached from head to...”
– J.D. Salinger, “For Esmé — with Love and Squalor”
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Signed up for a 5K
And these legs haven’t experienced the sensation of running in at least a year.
I have one week to train. Cue the Rocky-style training montage.
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Leave it to Radiohead
To get me my first 100+ note post.
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chaschva asked: I always opted for content over layout, but something happened and now my page looks like utter garbage. As anti-aesthetic as I may be, it needs to at least be like... not painful to look at.
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Paved with Good Intentions
I can’t stop thinking about this.
Last weekend I was walking down sixteenth street on my way to eat. I passed a young black man, somewhere between 19 and 22, layered up in jackets and whose belongings were stuffed in a tall drawstring bag. He had wispy facial hair and his head was covered in a large knit hat.
Do you have change, he asked in a high quiet voice. Normally I’d give a...
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“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs
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January 2012
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“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe...”
– — Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
This takes me back to my own grief I suffered when I lost my grandmother and a close friend within a week of each other. Traveling back to Oregon, I often walked by the Willamette River, toeing the line between comfort and torment, and...
Philadelphia Mar 15-19
Can’t wait to walk your streets again, City of Brotherly Love.
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“You see those people? He pointed toward the bar. All those people have families,...”
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Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 122
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This is why we can't have nice things →
“The fact of the matter is that we live in a world that demands amazing technology delivered to us at low costs and at great speed. That world leads to Foxconn.
We say we care about the means by which the results are reached when we read stories such as this one. But then we forget. Or we chose not to remember. We buy things and we’re happy that they’re affordable. And then we buy more...
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“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass
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“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise,...”
– David Foster Wallace