February 2011
January 2011
“No ocean voyager, however wide his experience, ever forgets his first sight of...”
– The Wonders of World Engineering, 1930 (via newyorkusedtobe)
everyone follow this
What New York Used To Be - my new tumblr
http://newyorkusedtobe.tumblr.com/
I think I was born in the wrong decade.
“I hope sex and drugs rust into myself - holy!”
– O Green World
came to some conclusions this weekend, somewhere between the gallery at lamont street and waking up to a clear sunday morning. I saw such potential in this city, and all it could be, and such incredible potential in everyone surrounding me. I want to directly bring more beauty into the world. I want to recognize the joy that is existence every hour of every day, and I want to do everything I can...
“Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by...”
Anonymous asked: what is your major?
“If it gets you high, well then I’ll take it
If it gets you up, well I...”
“If you can’t write like New York, you have no business living in New York and...”
– James M. Cain (via theparisreview)
“The aggressiveness that alcohol stimulates, and that’s certainly a...”
– Andrew Weil
Racial distribution of murder, Manhattan's East... →
finding it hard to write, possibly due to feeling a bit unmoored and free. like I’m trying to relearn how to live my own life, like I’ve taken certain things for granted for so long that I’m losing sight of how they began. including relationships. there’s been a lot of people I really haven’t talked to in a while, and I want to change that as soon as possible.
“There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that...”
– Elie Wiesel (via thechocolatebrigade)
“That was a tough speech to sit through and try to stomach. His theme last night...”
– whoa sarah palin
“The human habit of overestimating other people’s happiness is nothing new,...”
– Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2282620/
my hate for windows knows no bounds, especially when it shuts down unexpectedly and refuses to restart, freezing whenever I try to reboot. it’s especially infuriating when I’m tweaking…somewhow fixed my melty hard drive and able to relax now. settlers of catan, tim and eric season 1, and being snowed in…not a bad night.
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
I don’t know why I still bother to smoke anymore when it just makes me stressed, anxious, and irritated at everything in the world. Wish I could just go to sleep.
this is awkward
i know we fuckd but
im jjust not rele into bois
u were prolly the worst grossest awfulest ugliest ickiest least attractive wish i were on tumblr instead of having sex with you lay ever
sry lol
“I’m gonna love you forever,
forever and ever amen,
as long as old men...”
sex, art, and politics: I overheard a whitewoman... →
sexartandpolitics:
I overheard a whitewoman talk about going to a 90% black neighborhood and how everybody looked at her like they wanted to lynch her. Now, I know the look she was talking about. It took a lot of self control to not butt into her conversation and say, “no, bitch, they looked at you with DISTRUST….
it’s awkward sometimes when I see suburban white families in my...
“death is the worm at the core of man’s natural pretensions to happiness.”
what’s hard to conceptualize is that I was walking home last night at the same time that two men only eight blocks away were dying in a bullet-riddled car. I’ve had these thoughts a few times since living at the MRC, and I pray that I never have to encounter such violence close up.
RIP to both men who fell on new hampshire avenue last night.