January 2012
newsweek:
apsies:
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.”
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Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful...
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This time last week I was blissfully ignorant
Then I was slowly dumped Wednesday through Friday of last week. Got hammered Friday night, laid frozen in one position for the majority of Saturday and Sunday. Woke up this morning at 4am, alarmless, and joined a gym. Was there and sweating by 6 and at work, full of smiles, at 8 on the dot.
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““We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com (via myserendipities)
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"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see...
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“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)
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“I wanted not so much to say as be said to—roaring sonar… elastic alphabet…...”
– Aaron Shurin, from “In the Dome” in Citizen (via proustitute)
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“… since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.”
– John Donne, from “The Funeral” (via proustitute)
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poetbabble:
…how I love you the same way I learned how to ride a bike:
Scared.
But reckless.
- Rudy Francisco
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carveher:
Crashingly Beautiful: Fire Script
During the heavy months my life caught fire only when I made love with you. The firefly too lights up and goes out, lights up and goes out —by quick glimpses we follow its route among the olive trees in the darkness of night. During the heavy months the soul sat indolent and crushed, but the body took the nearest way to you. The night...
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“You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp...”
– Ryan O’Connell, What 20-Somethings Want on Thought Catalog (via thoughtcatalog)
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“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Lead” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
Gemini: 52hearts: Can I try you on for a day? See... →
52hearts:
Can I try you on for a day? See how well the spaces of you fill in the spaces of me, see how your skin feels against my skin, or what it feels like when our noses collide in an awkward manner? Can I try you on for a day? Feel the warmth of what it’s like on a winter day with your…
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“Our gods were fallen faster,
and fallen larger.
The day was duller, duller...”
– Catherine Wing, from “The Darker Sooner” (via proustitute)
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“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it…there was an excitement in...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via yrfndrhrt)
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.”
For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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Electromagnetic weapons: Frying tonight →
BULLETS and bombs are so 20th-century. The wars of the 21st will be dominated by ray guns. That, at least, is the vision of a band of military technologists who are building weapons that work by zapping the enemy’s electronics, rather than blowing him to bits. The result could be conflict that is less bloody, yet more effective, than what is now seen as conventional battle.
Electromagnetic...
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“I really don’t see the point of reading in straight lines. We don’t think like...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in the Introduction (via distantheartbeats)
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MEGAUPLOAD IS DOWN, THE INTERNET HAS FALLEN. THEY...
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