Surviving Myself

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Thu, 17 May 2012 13:26:53 -0400

curiositycounts: 10 Beautiful Buildings Inspired By Famous...

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:53:09 -0400

10 Beautiful Buildings Inspired By Famous Books

Lovely and true Flavorwire excerpt: Truly wonderful books have a habit of growing and changing years after they’ve been written, worming themselves into places you might not expect — our decisions, our aesthetic and cultural sense, and even, with the right kind of care, our physical world.

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doubledaybooks: An illustrated video tutorial on how to flee or...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:12:16 -0400

doubledaybooks:

An illustrated video tutorial on how to flee or disable a marauding homicidal robot.

tattoolit: My poetry mentor told me today that I needed to find...

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:26:29 -0400

tattoolit:

My poetry mentor told me today that I needed to find my spot of memory, that place I go to, where my poetry is rooted, and the metaphorical or physical place I call home, whether or not it’s attainable. Second, he told me to find out what I fear, what really frightens me, and to steep in it. The only way you can really express what you feel, is to know what you’re afraid to feel and explore it. When I went to get my Friday the 13th tattoo, this is what I got.

waldeinsamkeit is an untranslatable German word, which means, as close as we can match, “the feeling of being alone in the woods.” I grew up in the forests and swamps of central Florida, and I’m haunted by their ghosts. What frightens me, what really scares me is not the dark in the woods, not the unknown beyond the fog, but the unveiling of the unknown. I never want to lose the weight you feel when you’re alone in the forest. I don’t want to know what lives beneath the swamp waters, never want it to lose that magic.

Peter Gonzalez was generous enough to substitute this for my Friday the 13th, $13 tattoo deal. He’s a brilliant artist working out of Chrome Lotus in downtown Orlando, FL.
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Wed, 16 May 2012 11:59:47 -0400

So wrong.

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:18:49 -0400

So wrong.

"I still didn’t think it would ever happen to me. I thought I was too emotionally damaged, my..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:20:38 -0400

“I still didn’t think it would ever happen to me. I thought I was too emotionally damaged, my emotions and sexuality severed by all those years of loneliness and arrested emotional development. I thought my heart had too much scar tissue, and I could live my life well enough with just friendship and occasional sexual encounters or dates. But when I first set eyes on my husband, I knew I had lucked out. Some things you simply know. And when we finally got married, a few years later, and our mothers walked us down the makeshift garden aisle, and my sister gave the reading through tears, and one of our beagles howled through the vows, and my father put his arms around me and hugged, I did not hear civilization crumble. I felt a wound being healed. It is a rare privilege to spend your adult life fighting for a right that was first dismissed as a joke, only finally to achieve it in six states and Washington, D.C. But how much rarer to actually stumble upon someone who could make it a reality. And to have it happen to me in my own lifetime! This joy is compounded, deepened, solidified by the knowledge that somewhere, someone just like I was as a kid will be able to look to the future now and not see darkness—but the possibility of love and home. That, I realized, was really what I had been fighting for for two decades: to heal the child I had once been—and the countless children in the present and future whose future deserved, needed, begged for a model of commitment and responsibility and love.”

- Andrew Sullivan: Why Gay Marriage is Good for America - The Daily Beast

"Michelle Maguire is paying $950 a month to park her RV in a farmers’ field two miles out of town –..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:43:24 -0400

“Michelle Maguire is paying $950 a month to park her RV in a farmers’ field two miles out of town – and that’s considered reasonable. Camper parking spots, with no utilities, rent for up to $1,400. Still it’s painful when she considers the farmer is making about $100,000 a year renting out parking spaces, and that she is paying as much to keep her family of four in a 44-ft trailer as she is to hang on to the family home in Montana. Milk is $6 a gallon, a shower at the local truck stop costs $10.”

- There’s an oil boom in North Dakota right now equivalent to the California Gold Rush of 1849. (via nedhepburn)

Justin Kirk and a Monkey! So much win.

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:58:01 -0400

Justin Kirk and a Monkey! So much win.

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Tue, 15 May 2012 03:07:07 -0400

"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the..."

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:23 -0400

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”

- The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket)

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Sat, 12 May 2012 17:01:02 -0400

think-progress: think-progress: A ThinkProgress trailer...

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:56:52 -0400

think-progress:

think-progress:

A ThinkProgress trailer showing what the REAL Hunger Games looks like.

That’s right. The Hunger Games hits the capital this week with the House of Representatives voting on a package that threatens more than $33 billion of nutritional assistance for the elderly, disabled, children and working poor.

Read more at ThinkProgress.

Reblogging in case you haven’t seen this. You should.

think-progress: MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a...

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:10 -0400

think-progress:

MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a conservative journalist for refusing to answer her questions.

The ThinkProgress team actually paused what we were doing to watch this throwdown (quite rare).

Christian School Forfeits State Championship Game Rather Than Compete Against Player Who Is Black*

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:22:37 -0400

Christian School Forfeits State Championship Game Rather Than Compete Against Player Who Is Black*:

amindy07:

(From Deadspin.com)

An Arizona high school baseball team forfeited the state championship game Wednesday rather than face an opponent whose squad featured a black* player.

That’s according to the Arizona Republic, which explains Our Lady of Sorrows Academy—a school run by an offshoot…