February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
5 posts
Fact: In rural Alaska, you can buy a bow and arrows with food stamps.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailers/eligible.htm
Amazing Recycled Art →
via Facebook friends
“Think of all the lives saved by plastic knives.”
– Barenaked Ladies
December 2011
11 posts
“Do what I do. Hold tight, and pretend it’s a plan.”
– Doctor Who
Stout Beer Jelly →
I can’t wait to try this on cheese and crackers.
“God? … There is nothing here, at the moment, but me and the desert. And that’s...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (via sarahonthemountain)
Home Improvements
I realized quite suddenly that this is the first time in forever that I got a “server overload” error from Tumblr. Things have improved a lot since the time it was a daily occurrence.
November 2011
9 posts
Incurablog: A Naturalist At Work: On residing in... →
incurable:
Humans are organisms and all organisms have an impact on their environment, no matter how big or small. The difference between humans and all other organisms is that we have the power to control how we impact the environments we live in and depend on, and the degree to which we do so.
Living on…
My degree in biology/ecology supports this view. Naysayers need only look at...
October 2011
2 posts
Count Chocula is an underrated delicacy of the...
om nom.
“The ocean tells me a thousand stories
None of them are lies.”
– Switchfoot
September 2011
10 posts
Someone called me for relationship advice at...
Friend: It's just... I don't get it, ya know? It's like--
Me: Does he make you happy on purpose?
Friend: What?
Me: Does he make you happy on purpose? Like, when you talk about how great he is you're telling me he's good looking and has a secure job. Does he go out of his way to intentionally make your life better? Does he enjoy your joy?
Friend: ...I don't know?
Me: There's your problem.
Friend: I don't think that's fair.
Me: Sorry, but the people who love you on this planet are the ones who want to see you live your best life. Who take time out of dealing with their own shit to clear away some of your shit. And vice versa. That is love. If he doesn't make you happy on purpose then it's just abs.
“Is that sushi in your pocket or are you just happy sashimi?”
– The Boy
Waitress: Are you finished with your fondue?
The Boy: Yep, we fondid.
Me: Now we're fondone.
Waitress: [probably rolling her eyes as she walked away]
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sometimesagreatnotion:
Letter to a Lover
Today I am going to pick you up at the beige airport. My heart feels like a field of calves in the sun. My heart is wired directly to the power source of mediocre songs. I am trying to catch a ray of sunlight in my mouth.
I look forward to showing you my new furniture. I look forward to the telephone ringing, it is not you, you are in the kitchen...
Failing and Flying, Jack Gilbert
sometimesagreatnotion:
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading...
1 tag
“Fluency in Haitian Creole is a must.”
– A YWCA job posting
2 tags
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours...”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr. (via isopropyl-)
The Good Slaughter →
Important for meat eaters to watch. If we can’t watch the slaughterhouse process at one of the most humane and considerate businesses, should we really be eating it? (Warning: gory, as can be expected)
August 2011
11 posts
Dandelion Wine, Gregory Alan Isakov
summer days were just a magazine, a magazine a magazine….
cutting grass for gasoline, for gasoline so i can see ya soon…
fall swooned left me drunk in a field dandelion wine for a year
and i packed up the dust of all that i owned handkerchief hung from a pole
i rolled out the day that the apples fell…
Wedding Backlash
me: i swear, if i ever get married, my bridesmaids will be in sundresses from Kmart and the reception will be catered by delivery pizza.
me: ...on the beach.
him: In New Zealand. :B
me: and there will be a Kea release following the ceremony
me: nothing like watching flightless birds scurry away to commemorate the blessed day
“Many days you have lingered
Around my cabin door,
Oh hard times, come again no...”
– Steven Foster
4 tags
How to Talk to Little Girls →
beenthinking:
“I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time.
Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown. I wanted to squeal, “Maya, you’re so cute! Look at you! Turn around and model that pretty ruffled gown, you gorgeous thing!”
But I didn’t. I squelched myself. As I...
6 tags
a bright wall in a dark room.: Reader's Request... →
brightwalldarkroom:
TOP GUN (1986) / DER SCHNELLE FLIEGER (1975)
by Andy Sturdevant
The mutations that take place in the time it takes words written on a page to become images flashed onto a screen are often surprising and unanticipated. Saturday Night Fever, now regarded as one of pop’s more…
Reblog for actor Val Kilmer who looks a lot like my boyfriend.
Wipe Your Feet: 28 for 28 →
tesslynch:
1. Maybe you do like kale.
2. Put your spare car key somewhere that’s easy to describe over the phone in a panic (“TOP DRAWER OF BIG CABINET!” instead of “Go into the garage and find the old file drawer with three locks, not the one with two locks, and open the bottom drawer and I think it…
NY to California, by Mat Kearney
You woke up and said baby I had one of those dreams again The rain came down and I lost you in the wind You said something about don’t leave before you fell back sleep Before I could sing my song back to you But you could find yourself lost out in this world And I’d find a way to get back to your side No mountain’s too high, no stone is too small I’ll build a bridge through...
