December 2009
1 post
“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via squashed) (via ericmortensen) (via tanya77) (via kenyatta) (via clayrobeson)
November 2009
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October 2009
1 post
August 2009
3 posts
“We sail onboard space station “Alpha”
Orbiting high above Earth, still in night...”
– ~ William Shepherd, from the log of the ISS Alpha 1, January 1, 2001.
“When I was four, a sound slipped into my bedroom and woke me up. It was a...”
– Firstlight, The Early Inspirational Writings by Sue Monk Kidd
July 2009
8 posts
“The weird thing is that you can view these “wholesome” games as being just as...”
– Ridiculous Life Lessons From New Girl Games | GameLife | Wired.com
sigh.
(via fromoutsidethebox)
This just makes me mad. As if young girls aren’t already exposed to enough things telling them they’re not okay just as they are.
“Allergies to a certain pollen are associated with OAS reactions to certain...”
– Wikipedia article on Oral Allergy Syndrome - I’ve developed histiminic reactions to watermelon, avocado, and bell pepper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome
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“love builds up the broken wall
and straightens the crooked path.
love keeps...”
– Maya Angelou
June 2009
6 posts
““You’re trying to be tricky. What’s morality?”
“It’s the difference...”
– Christopher Moore, in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
“Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via she-alone)
“In the last year of the Bush administration there were 396 harassing calls to...”
– Cristina Page in The Huffington Post, 31 May 2009.
“We are frequently reminded that former minstrel Al Jolson continued to use...”
– John Kenrick, “Blackface and Old Wounds,” Theatre Lover’s Journal, November 2000
Quoted because I’m watching Holiday Inn, and Encore Retroplex is playing a print of the film in which the “Abraham” number, performed by Bing Crosby in blackface was not cut out to...
May 2009
4 posts
Assisted Loving
Earlier tonight I lounged in a tub of vanilla noir-scented bubbles and listened to Fresh Air on NPR. The guest was Bob Morris, author of Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with my Dad, which is just out in paperback (hardcover was last night).
The conversation was interesting, the book seems funny and appealing. I was suddenly caught thinking of my grandmother, in a care home long after...
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson