January 2012
43 posts
Soup: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
Some things to remember as the world molts and is reborn.
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single...
December 2011
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Reaffirming the Value of Social Cooperation
A few nights ago we watched a show on bizarre animal friendships; an elephant and a sheep dog, a lioness and the ibex cub she adopted as her own, a lion, a tiger and a bear formerly the property of one Atlanta drug lord. The show’s theme was the universal bond that we form in childhood with those around us, despite a difference of species, or even being born what would normally in the wild...
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Las Vegas Girls
Some want to sex you for the money just like you expected to find. And some are just genuine, and honest, and products of that good ole’ American you never expected to find in short reserve.
But those were fatter, less honest, times.
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Las Vegas, America, USA
I think it was Hunter S Thompson that said the American Dream is alive and well in Las Vegas, NV. That’s why it reminds one so much of a giant video game stage, with you as the Jedi Space Marine abandoned on a distant planet of wanton bestiality and an overgrown consumer reflex, ready and waiting at any moment for a horde of zombies or a mutant dog beast to come lumbering around the vacant...
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Nice, Nice, & So Very Very Stiff Like a Cold Bourbon on a Brisk Fall Night…
Reblogged from J. Scott Grand’s Tumblr
From thevagabondking (aka Dennis Dubay II // more here):
peeled back behind nicotine stained finger nails are the memories of things touched. stored away in fatty pale tissue that smells of bbq sauce, shit and dandruff are little moments that even time forgot
but...
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A Bit of Frost from the Long Past
It’s the holidays, the season of: tragedy, comedy, family, and lots of other -y’s.
I’ve been cleaning house, after moving house, and one of the most enjoyable things about that, once you get over the fact that the next few days, or weeks, or months — depending on the depth of your hoarding — are going to be devoted to sneezing through dust, and wincing through...
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Tire Reductionist Comedy Horror
Watching the well shot movie Rubber and it proves for the most part that you just got to follow the beats.
I’m still having trouble, though, identifying with a tire.
More here:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1612774