June 2010
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Song of Childhood, By Peter Handke
When the child was a child It walked with its arms swinging, wanted the brook to be a river, the river to be a torrent, and this puddle to be the sea. When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one. When the child was a child, it had no opinion about anything, had no habits, it often sat...
Jun 1st
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“Playfully you hid from me. All day I looked. Then I discovered I was you, ...”
– Lalla, “Mala of the Heart”
Jun 1st
May 2010
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“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change — but pretty soon...”
– Calvin & Hobbes (via julie911)
May 31st
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“At this point in his transition from a boy to a man, […] his eye roams...”
– Steve Martin, “Shopgirl”
May 31st
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“So now they have had the Conversation. What neither of them understands is that...”
– Steve Martin, “Shopgirl”
May 31st
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“A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That...”
– Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
May 30th
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“It seems to him that nothing in the world of relationships proves to be...”
– Steve Martin, “Shop Girl”
May 30th
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ListenThis my cover of “You Could Be Happy”...
May 26th
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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation,...”
– Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
May 26th
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Whales and dolphins - 'resource' or 'right'?  →
New research is showing that whales and dolphins possess intelligence and culture more complex that we had previously assumed, says Margi Prideaux. And, she argues, this raises anew the question of how we should relate to them - including whether it is ever right to hunt them.
May 26th
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May 26th
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WatchWatch
The fashion industry has a lot to teach us about (changing) copyright law.
May 26th
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Free sheet music! →
I just found this.  Must investigate…
May 25th
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“Do not assume malice when an explanation of stupidity is sufficient.”
May 25th
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“Memories are interpreted like dreams.”
– Leo Longanesi, journalist and editor (1905-1957)
May 25th
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Opacity: Urban Ruins →
“This site is dedicated to documenting various abandoned places through both text and photographs; recording their transformations through time before they are demolished.”
May 24th
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Abandoned Places: 10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern... →
I want to go here, and there, and way over there…
May 24th
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"28 things I wish I'd known before I started... →
Thanks, Anderson Cooper.
May 24th
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May 24th
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Listendjsquints: The Cool Kids vs. Sigur Rós - Sigur...
May 24th
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May 21st
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DontEvenReply.com →
May 21st
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May 21st
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Teacher suspended for President Obama... →
Crazy people are everywhere, but sometimes it seems like Alabama has a few too many of them.
May 20th
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May 20th
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BP and Coast Guard Blocking Media from Public... →
Why am I not surprised?
May 20th
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Think You Have Food Allergies? You Probably Don't →
That’s what my mom says, but I STILL assert the truth of my obvious shellfish allergy.
May 20th
“Have you ever, in all seriousness, actually tried to move objects with your...”
– Have you ever, in all seriousness, actually tried to move objects with your mind? : AskReddit For me, this comment stream is life-affirming.
May 20th
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May 20th
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Ninjas rescue student from muggers →
I’m so jealous.  I want to be able to tell my grandkids that I was rescued by ninjas too!
May 20th
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copycats: Video Killed the Radio Star by Anaïs Croze of Nouvelle Vague originally by The Buggles (via twentyfourbit) This is such an awesome cover of such an awesome song.  Awesomely awesome awesomeness all around. What is it about “Video Killed the Radio Star” that makes it such an amazing (amazingly awesome) song?  Is this one secret that mortals are not meant to know?
May 20th
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“Glenn Beck’s show on social justice and the church included guests from Liberty...”
– Efrem Smith (via azspot) Amen!
May 20th
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May 19th
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I Love Fair Trade Chocolate Day →
azspot: Yesterday, Hershey’s declared May 18th “I Love Reese’s Day,” which was basically an Internet promotion to get people to think about, talk about, and hopefully buy their chocolate and peanut butter confections. But a lot of people don’t love Reese’s, because Hershey’s sources its cocoa from plantations which use child and forced labor and have repeatedly refused to make a commitment to...
May 19th
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May 19th
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“Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over,...”
– Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
May 19th
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“Surely they’re not lost anymore. I mean, surely, after a certain amount of time,...”
– Karl Pilkington, on Lost (via themattsmith) This statement is so oddly reassuring to me.
May 19th
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Currently listening to this song by "The National"
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio Found at skreemr.org
May 18th
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You could be happy
This song, by Snow Patrol, came to mind today.  I think I might try to record a cover of it sometime. Snow Patrol - You Could Be Happy Found at skreemr.org
May 18th
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Higher education does not make you happy →
From visualturn: Research reports that while vocational training has a positive impact on happiness both during and after training, happiness declines for university students after graduation. Link to article. Link to full report. Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me.
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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On Turning Ten (one of my favorite poems)
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light— a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one...
May 17th
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“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. ...”
– Kahlil Gibran
May 15th
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May 13th
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“If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who...”
– Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
May 13th
“The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is...”
– Bono (via azspot)
May 12th
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“What is it about peace that its inspiration is unenduring? Why is its story hard...”
– From the movie “Wings of Desire”
May 12th
The First Love Stories
I just started reading a book called “The First Love Stories: from Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult.” I picked it up from the “Mythology” section of a used bookstore, because mythology is one of my favorite subjects, and the New York Times gave it this incredibly persuasive review: “The first love stories are tales of more than mortal attraction. They celebrate...
May 11th
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Listenalexblagg: alisonagosti: Edward Sharpe &...
May 10th
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