January 2012
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I think there are two different kinds of memory, and only one kind gets worse as I get older: the kind where, by an effort of will, you can reconstruct your first car or your serial number or the name and figure of your high school physics teacher—a Mr. Holm, in a gray suit, a bearded guy, skinny, about thirty. The other kind doesn’t worsen; if anything it grows more intense. The sleepwalking...
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December 2011
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WatchThis Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Funny or Die’s legendary Drunk History returns with a very special inebriated recitation of “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, and Jim Carrey as St. Nicholas :: thedailywhat : [funnyordie.]
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November 2011
34 posts
Maud Miller
Maud Muller, on a summer’s day, Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing, she wrought, and her merry glee The mock-bird echoed from his tree. But when she glanced to the far-off town, White from its hill-slope looking down, The sweet song died, and a vague unrest ...
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“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these...”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
Black Sheep
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
– Walt Whitman (via nirvikalpa)
If I Could Only Fly - Blaze Foley