December 2011
33 posts
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There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on...
– Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Les Miserables
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Would you walk to the edge of the ocean
Just to fill my jar with sand
In case...
– The Band Perry
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Sheherazade Tells a Thousand Tales
New blog for short stories!
Sheherazade: We are a conglomeration of writers and artists who have come together to sing the hymn of our creativity into the vacuum of cyberspace for the sole purpose of informing the world of the truth that we already know: though art has no survival value, it gives value to survival.
Just posted The Secret of Room 404 by Andrea S
Also look at the previous story...
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Egypt Bans Forced Virginity Tests →
My favorite part:
“We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” he said
There are so many things wrong with that sentence its hard to know where to start…
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
– Robert Frost
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where...
– Robert Frost
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Naive Ax Meme FTW
Todays Animorphs spam brought to you by Unemployment, the best thing since frontal lobotomies.
also thanks to secretsfromthecanaries for bringing back the Animorphs love.
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Sit, be still, and listen,
because you’re drunk
and we’re at
the...
– Rumi
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Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be...
– Rumi
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage...
– Rumi
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Nerdy Male Privileged →
This article is interesting because it explains male privledge in a way guys can understand. God knows I’ve been trying to figure it out and I’ve gotten pretty close but this one lays it out very succinctly:
“one of the issues that nerd girls face is the fact that they are seen as girls first and anything else second. “
“Male privilege – again – is about what men...
El amor sin emoción es como el sexo sin orgasmos
– DokJeff (via dokjeff)
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Don’t grieve, anything you lose comes around in another form.
– Rumi
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MY New Article: Chaos Theory and Other Things I... →
An examination of childhood games from an anthropological perspective
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As unrefined as an animal’s emotional equipment may be, it is not...
– Tom Robbins
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The strongest form of power is the ability to define social realities
– Strathern
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You can’t imagine, when we first read the Classic Texts, when in the dark...
– Angels in America
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. Meet me there.
– Rumi AKA Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the...
– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the...
– “The Hollow Men”, T.S. Elliot
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The real war is between our imagination and theirs, what we can see and what...
– Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
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In China, the sexist term “leftover woman,” sheng nu, is widely used to describe...
– China’s “Leftover” Women : Ms Magazine Blog (via npr)