February 2012
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Eating the Blood Root
The chocolate edibles slid over our tongues and you barely tasted the psilocybin. The trees soon became like soldiers, or posts with flags on them like you see sometimes in those period movies about the height of Britain. As we stomped across the small grass our nerves became aware, our senses attuned, so that blast of open air and sea breeze of the beach was like laying underneath some giant...
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism /ˌlibərˈte(ə)rēəˌnizəm/
clintirwin:
The firm belief that when the country is turned back to the 1780s, you will be slave owner and someone else will be the slave.
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Ultimately, he argued, "love, with all its risks,... →
-Jonathan Franzen, on the perils of Facebook and just about everything else:
Ebooks
Oprah
Cats
iPhones
I’ve never been too big a Franzen fan, and this seems to point to why. I guess I’ll stick to reading explosive sound bites rather than burying myself in the deep end of “Freedom” and not coming up for air.
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42 WHAT? →
In Article <2b4asr$…@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au>, mjche…@socs.uts.EDU.AU
(Mark J Cherkas) wrote: >I am new to this group so bear with this beginners question: >Why is the answer 42 ? >Has Douglas Adams ever explained this ?
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary...
“Piracy is the new radio.”
– Neil Young.
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So Much for Good Old Obama's Healthy Table... →
On the development and proliferation of Neotame into all sectors of the food industry as a ubiquitous toxic sweetener?
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Michael Taylor was appointed in 2009 by President Obama to the newly created post of Senior Adviser to the Commissioner of the FDA. Michael Taylor, noted ‘food safety expert’ has long history of boucing between jobs as lawyer...
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China's Top Policeman Seeking US Asylum? →
The BBC reports on the developing story of the disappeared head of the Chinese police force who earlier this week was seen entering and leaving the US consulate in Beijing “under his own volition”.
Wang Lijun has been removed from his post but the reason remains unclear.
Wang Lijun, 52, headed an attack on organised crime in Chongqing that saw hundreds of people arrested, including...
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Over at Reddit They're Having a Discussion on Bad...
This, for example:
SUPER-RARE TRIPLE EDIT because I’m bored: Here’s some other roommates I’ve had thanks to our glorious military:
First roommate, I found out, liked to download shemale porn. Found out when we tried Media Sharing with my PS3. Nothing wrong with that, except he liked to act all alpha as fuck at work. Made me chuckle when I found out.
Second...
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Plots for SALE: CHEAP
I’ve got an idea for a movie. It will be called “Shameless Money Grab from The Things That Used to Entertain Us as Children” and it will star Zac Efron and Taylor Swift, with music by Vampire Weekend.
Oh no, wait, that’s “The Lorax”.
Damned if “Green Eggs and Ham” isn’t taken as well… I’ve got Justin Bieber on the line.
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A Soldier in Love
Sam Samuels sat in the core of a hundred miles of wires, of over two thousand meters of tubing, of 500 kilotons of weapon, and he watched reruns of I Love Lucy. The engineers had been kind enough to share with him their rigged wireline from the surface. Occasionally, now, he gave them rides back into town. He liked to watch Lucy. To kick back and laugh. When it was over, Sam kicked off the TV...
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The Local News
FIRE
FIRE
FIRE
MURDER
MURDER
CATS / BABIES
SPORTS
MURDER
G’NIGHT
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Random Vocabulary Musings After the Open Mic
I like the word “slapdash”. The way it rolls off your tongue.
“Litany” comes in a close second.
Followed only by “cannoiter”. Though I’m not even sure that’s a word. Google says its not. So that’s that, I guess.
Two for two ain’t bad…
EDIT: “sussurus” wins hands down. Thank you, Evelyn Waugh.
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“Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, his legacy was tremendous. […]...”
– Neil Young on the quality of mp3’s and what we’re missing at AllThingsD
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From "The Invention of the Heterosexual" today in... →
“Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word “homosexual,” [in the mid-19thcentury], by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Károly Mária Kertbeny. He created these words as part of his response to a piece of Prussian legislation that made same-sex erotic behavior illegal, even in cases where the identical act performed by a man and a woman would be...
“Watching “True Blood” again with my girl friend and thinking now...”
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-Myself.
January 2012
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Quick Frag
The event was timed precisely like a Swiss watch on a metal chain, a timepiece hanging in a blank, dry room, the background out of focus, an eye scrutinizing the face and waiting, watching, while the hands slowly circle.
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Go On When You Don’t Feel Like It
“Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position.”
-STEPHEN KING
via Advice to Writers
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What A Great Title. Next up, "Fire up the Ovens,...
“The current recession is a ‘forever recession’ because it’s the end of the industrial age, which also means the end of the average worker.”
From the article: “If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Straight To The Bottom”
Do you agree? Or does this just mean with fair salaries we wouldn’t be able to get 96oz. of Sludg-O from Walmart...
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Meanwhile... in Tennessee
From today’s Huffington Post:
“They voted down a motion that requires students to be taught about the terrorism brought about by the Ku Klux Klan and what they did to ethnic and racial minorities, but they turn around and pass a provision that requires the teaching of the violence of the Black Panther Party.”
From the article: “Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand...
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The Secret of Getting Ahead
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
-Mark Twain
via AdviceToWriters
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It's A Question of Who
In the bar tonight they have autographed cameo portraits of Tom Selleck and David Hasselhoff.
“With Love, David”
“Cheers, Tom”
The stereo begins to play “On Some Faraway Beach” And all, somehow, is well with universe.
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TRU MineCraft
For two years I never truly saw the sun. I was in the mine before it came up, and not out again until after it fell for the evening. My complexion suffered horribly. I began to crave the comfort of our bathroom heat lamp.
My best friend throughout was Paul, who went with me neck and dirty neck, every inch down through the coal dust that coated our bodies. The soot grew so thick at times you were...
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What was JD Salinger working on??? →
In Salon today. This caught my eye:
But if Salinger’s manuscripts contain a single book or story that rivals the effect or quality of “The Catcher in the Rye,” then Salinger’s withdrawal will be judged very differently, indeed. The author, whose refusal has been long ridiculed and resented, will be regarded as a monastic genius who resisted the lures of the world in order to serve the...