December 2011
38 posts
You Ridiculous People
There was nothing wrong with me, and I hadn’t seen anything, but the policeman had to question me and take me to the hospital anyway. The word came over his car radio that the man was now dead, just as we came under the awning of the emergency-room entrance.
I stood in a tiled corridor with my wet sleeping bag bunched against the wall beside me, talking to a man from the local funeral...
These Heroics - Leonard Cohen
If I had a shining head
and people turned to stare at me in the streetcars; and I could stretch my body through the bright water and keep abreast of fish and water snakes; if I could ruin my feathers in flight before the sun; do you think that I would remain in this room, reciting poems to you, and making outrageous dreams with the smallest movements of your mouth?
When I said 'shut up', I just couldn't stand to...
it's 4am, do I know where my baby is?
me: hey duder!
I was just wondering if you knew where my typewriter currently is
friend: IM IN ANTWERP
ITS IN PHILLY This is a concerned parent moment.
SICKOFSITTINGAROUNDHERETRYING TOWRITETHISBOOK
They lay down beside me
I made my confession to them
they touched both my eyes
I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love
that is graceful and green as a stem
I’m at that point where I cannot tell the difference between the regular clothes strewn around my floor-drawer and the ones I’ve specifically designated as napkins.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity
99% Invisible: Great Radio →
failurefucker:
Will McAndrew is a fucking saint.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-EL-Wire-Projec... →
Palestinian Solidarity Keffiyeh
As worn by a white jewish radical. Thoughts on appropriation vs. solidarity anyone?
I dont know how I feel about the fact that when I listen to Y Control by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs part of me recognizes that it’s pretty much one of the best songs ever.
Send us to the American College Dance Festival! →
blaxtone:
hey tumblr! my very talented and beautiful friend Olana Flynn is choreographing a pretty rad piece that’s been selected for a weird thing called the American College Dance Festival in Connecticut this winter. She’ll have an opportunity to show it in front of a bunch of really cool famous people and the dancers will have an opportunity to take classes with some incredible professionals....