August 2009
8 posts
“…but fate turns on a moment, dear ones, and the pig was about to learn the...”
– Babe: Pig in the City
“This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– Steinbeck - East of Eden
July 2009
31 posts
“Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking...”
– Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
“(question)
Help me figure this one out: why are men such douche-drizzling...”
– a little bit of Dan Savage
Taco Bell Chihuahua Dies, Baja Fresh Offering Free... →
twice the talent of Michael Jackson, never fucked any kids, where’s Gidget’s media frenzy?
“Sad news, y’all. Gidget, who we all know as the Taco Bell chihuahua (“Yo Quiero Taco Bell”) suffered a stroke and died at age 15. After she retired from her commercial fame, she lived her days in the sun before dying Tuesday night.”
“He was only faintly visible in the dark, at a window on the haunted floor of the...”
– Thomas Pynchon
“(question)
You were recommended to me by an acquaintance familiar with your...”
– Dan Savage fucking rules.
“I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when...”
– Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass) (via twowaymonologue)
I'm tired of just being a man: How I learned about... →
Editor’s note: Excerpted from “The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals,” by Charles Siebert.
The losers who gave us Sarah Palin →
By Joe Conason
“…it would be refreshing … to see the perpetrators of that contemptuous and cynical tactic held accountable for endangering the country.”
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will...”
– Bertrand Russell
New Study Reveals: Vatican Should Be for... →
2 Peter 1:20-21, “know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, … but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.”
funny how everyday science reveals yet another thing God didn’t know when he “wrote” the bible via “divine inspiration.” Of all people to be out of the loop…
I thought black folks couldn't swim. Why are you... →
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell
one of my favorite quotes ever, sure lived itself out today.
“Freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept. It is the experience of the...”
– Simon Critchley
“In order to understand what Heidegger means by anxiety, we have to distinguish...”
– On Heidegger’s Being and Time: Part 5 by Simon Critchley
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
– Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
(this quote reminds me of this section of the hollow men.)
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But...”
– Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men
“That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains...”
– Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these...”
– Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plain
“It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be...”
– Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and...”
– Cormac McCarthy
(its a Cormac McCarthy kind of day, probably more to come.)
“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for...”
– Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
“The Crossing” is book 2 in the ‘Border Trilogy’, inbetween “All The Pretty Horses” and “Cities of the Plain.” If you’ve any intent on reading the trilogy, I recommend picking up the UK edition of the book, which...
What's in a name? →
“Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria’s state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture. The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.”
- gotta love field.
“It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money. And I...”
– Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE - CONSIDER THE LOBSTER →
read the entire essay at the link, brilliant
“…the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker, which is highlighted as an attraction in the Festival’s program, is right out there on the MLF’s north grounds for everyone to see. Try to imagine a Nebraska Beef Festival at which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right...
Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor →
and for fucks sake, don’t come back.
“He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was...”
– Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
(which was a great book, even if Atlas Shrugged was a pathetic piece of shit.)
June 2009
74 posts
I Fucked My Way Into This Mess, And I'll Fuck My... →
“Swoop home like a fuck-falcon and fuck my old lady like I love her. Keep fucking the skirt girl, plus hot-fuck Rina to keep that screamer quiet. Then line up a pity-fuck-and-suck with that fat-fuck deli chick, roll on out for a balls-out fuckfest with the redhead twins (ménage-à-fucking-trois, for you French fucks), and a three-day, four-night fuck-stravagaza down to Mexi-fucking-co next...
“Dying people lie too. Wish they’d worked less, been nicer, opened...”
– House
Blink Twice if You Like Me →
“it’s very, very easy to talk to fireflies.”
“Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years...”
– Douglas Coupland - JPod
Fancy Man Enjoys Tea →
Baumer removed the tea bag from the dainty brew and added one dollop of honey made by his friends the honeybees and a splash of milk straight from his mama’s precious teat.
“Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it’d...”
– Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to...”
– Bertrand Russell