December 2011
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
Too bad using gretchen weiners and david after dentist to define media and the public sphere didn’t successfully get the point across that “i don’t care”.
3 tags
August 2011
3 posts
LinkedIn.com
The professional world is so overwhelming. I guess my dreams of playing bongos on the beach is secondary to the pull of security, whatever that means.
My Ebay "Recently Purchased" Items.
Online shopping is ridiculously prosaic. And yet here I am…
July 2011
19 posts
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.”
– Wish you were here.
Somalis Flee Famine Along 'Roads of Death' →
fyeahafrica:
The Washington Post reports that nearly 170,000 Somalis have fled to packed refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia since January. In Kenya, about 1,300 people are arriving daily, while an average of 1,700 enter Ethiopia. Most are arriving after grueling journeys along what officials call the “roads of death.”
Somalis have endured two decades of civil war and two consecutive seasons...
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
– Albert Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
Absurdism
Absurdism is a philosophical school of thought stating that the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd), because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to the individual. As a philosophy, absurdism also explores the fundamental nature of the Absurd and how individuals, once becoming conscious of the Absurd, should react to it.
I need a crash...
Everything Is Green →
A short story by the incredible David Foster Wallace, from Girl With Curious Hair (1989).
Thomas Jefferson, Coolest President
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of...
The New American Dream
We are a restless generation: we dismiss the very thought of the American Dream, sometimes outright rejecting the mundane nature of the norm. Being babies of the virtual age, we adapted ourselves as a generation to live in a fast-paced, technologically driven world. We feed off the energy and crave the challenge of a life where nothing is guaranteed. Perhaps we are reckless. Perhaps we are simply...
“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You...”
– Jack Dawson
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Forget your lust for...
June 2011
10 posts
Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
It was not...
“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
– The Dark Knight
New York State Legalizes Love
Christopher Street, NYC - June 24, 2011. Same-Sex Marriage passed by legislature, signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. An incredible step towards equality.
WatchYou can stand under my sombrero.
“You’re the reason I’m travelin’ along. But don’t think...”
–
The Tao of Pooh
“When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.”
May 2011
1 post
My Forum Rant on Theism.
Let’s say that I believe in some higher power. We’ll call this higher power “tree.” And tree is definitely the most divine higher power there is. Gender-neutral tree has sacrificed “manyaleaf” in order to provide the world with “goodness” (whatever that means). It has instilled an outline for morality (whatever that means as well) that we should...
April 2011
3 posts
“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
March 2011
12 posts
Everything that shines ain't always gunna be...
But everything that shines is going to be shiny. And that’s good enough for me. Successfully pursuing happiness.
The first rule of Fight Club...
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read...
“It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to...”
– Jason Robert Brown on his play, Songs For A New World.
14 Covers That Are Better Than The Originals. →
I’m so glad Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley is on here.
“My witness is the empty sky.”
– Jack Kerouac, Some of Dharma (1997).