March 2012
arkenciel:
im pretty sure everyone is as unhappy as i am, yall just dont have the balls to tumbl about it.
February 2012
down in the valley
I woke up at 7:30 this morning to put on a shirt and tie and take the metro to work, like so many other people. it’s a little bit after 5pm now when all those people are leaving their jobs, and I’m walking in the door of my apartment utterly soaked in sweat, rain, and creek water up to my calves. from work I took the bus up to the protest at Georgia and Missouri, and then left there to...
another 14 hour day, with many more ahead of me, but right now I am in a warm bed in a warm apartment with a large black cat stretched out across the covers and pressed up against me. the days are so full I hardly notice how they slip by, and how so few remain here in this city.
this weekend - maybe a byt “communist party” at the spy museum? probably eating gross cheap food and doing things that don’t require me spending money.
next week - maybe radical space DC, definitely seeing Angela Davis speak, and eventually going back to new jersey. bars in the boogie down bronx, marching in the bergen county parade, playing lots of irish music for st....
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"feminine correspondence" from the Annual...
A: Lady Seymour presents her compliments to lady Shuckburgh, and would be obliged to her for the character of Mary Stedman, who states that she has lived twelvemonths, and still is in lady Shuckburgh’s establishment. Can Mary Stedman cook plain dishes well? make bread? and is she honest, good tempered, sober, willing, and cleanly? Lady Seymour would also like to know the reason why she leaves lady Shuckburgh’s service? Direct, under cover, to lord Seymour, Maiden Bradley.
B: Lady Shuckburgh presents her compliments to lady Seymour. Her ladyship’s note, dated Oct. 28, only reached her yesterday, Nov. 3. Lady Shuckburgh was unacquainted with the name of the kitchen-maid, until mentioned by lady Seymour, as it is her custom neither to apply for or give characters to any of the under servants, this being always done by the housekeeper, Mrs. Couch — and this was well known to the young woman; therefore lady Shuckburgh is surprised at her referring any lady to her for a character. Lady Shuckburgh having a professed cook, as well as a housekeeper, in her establishment, it is not very likely she herself should know anything of the abilities or merits of the under servants; therefore, she is unable to answer lady Seymour’s note. Lady Shuckburgh cannot imagine Mary Stedman to be capable of cooking for any except the servants’ hall table. — November 4, Pavilion, Hans-place.
A: Lady Seymour presents her compliments to lady Shuckburgh, and begs she will order her housekeeper, Mrs. Pouch, to send the girl’s character without delay; otherwise another young woman will be sought for elsewhere, as lady Seymour’s children cannot remain without their dinners because lady Shuckburgh, keeping a ‘professed cook and a housekeeper,’ thinks a knowledge of the details of her establishment beneath her notice. Lady Seymour understood from Stedman that, in addition to her other talents, she was actually capable of dressing food fit for the little Shuckburghs to partake of when hungry.
B: Madam, — Lady Shuckburgh has directed me to acquaint you that she declines answering your note, the vulgarity of which is beneath contempt; and although it may be the characteristic of the Sheridans, to be vulgar, coarse, and witty, it is not that of ‘a lady,’ unless she happens to have been born in a garret and bred in a kitchen. Mary Stedman informs me that your ladyship does not keep either a cook or a housekeeper, and that you only require a girl who can cook a mutton chop. If so, I apprehend that Mary Stedman, or any other scullion, will be found fully equal to cook for, or manage the establishment of, the Queen of Beauty. I am, your ladyship’s, &c., Elizabeth Couch (not Pouch).’
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Letter from freed slave Spotswood Rice to former...
I received a leteter from Cariline telling me that you say I tried to steal to plunder my child away from you now I want you to understand that mary is my Child and she is a God given rite of my own and you may hold on to hear as long as you can but I want you to remembor this one thing that the longor you keep my Child from me the longor you will have to burn in hell and the qwicer youll get...
Stoned as blazes sitting on this couch feelin like I would melt into it. My vocal cords are itchy and burning from me and Keenan screaming Hawthorne Heights all the way home from the party. Tonight was cool. There won’t be many more of nights like these before I graduate. Then, things will all be different, and you can’t ever really go back. I’m excited to graduate, but I am...
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account of the action against jan brewer in...
as someone whose great-grandfather was an illegal immigrant, as someone who grew up around immigrants of all colors, as someone who believes that we are a nation of immigrants at heart, and as someone who powerfully opposes white supremacy and xenophobia in all its forms both covert and explicit,
I couldn’t have been more proud of AU, particularly the occupiers, casj, and the black/latino...
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25 songs of the 2010s (so far)
my selection of favorite songs of this decade, no particular order. here’s the rest of the finished series:
2000s - http://disappearinginthefade.tumblr.com/post/18114872242/25-songs-of-the-2000s
1990s - http://disappearinginthefade.tumblr.com/post/18103799145/25-songs-of-the-1990s
1980s - http://disappearinginthefade.tumblr.com/post/17974506723/25-songs-of-the-1980s
1970s...
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“the boys from the other side of AU’s drug culture.”
– had a long and very good conversation about drug culture, and our respective drug histories today. there is a very clear but not always obvious delineation between those who do drugs recreationally versus those who do drugs to self-medicate and cope with (or avoid coping with) life. I always had...
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25 songs of the 2000s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade, not in any particular order. this as part of my “intricate lists chris makes on kratom” series. 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s were in previous posts.
Come Saturday - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse - Of Montreal
Jenny - The Mountain Goats
The Con - Tegan & Sara
Shiller - Ratatat
You Know I’m...
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25 songs of the 1990s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. see the rest of the series, 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine (1991)
Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan (1997)
The State I Am In - Belle and Sebastian (1996)
Naomi - Neutral Milk Hotel (1995)
Everyday Struggle - Notorious B.I.G. (1994)
Zombie - The Cranberries (1994)
Summer Romance (Antigravity Love Song) - Incubus (1997)
Under the...
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whiiiiitnee:
A cover of The XX - VCR
Because...
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25 songs of the 1980s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. see parts 1 and 2.
The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1981)
My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions (1988)
Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma (1981)
Paid In Full - Eric B & Rakim (1987)
Like a Prayer - Madonna (1989)
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - The Beastie Boys (1986)
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (1985)
About a Girl - Nirvana...
more things I have to read about at my job
an affluent yuppie couple battling over children, with the ex-wife saying his 1-bedroom apartment in friendship heights is cause for her to have full custody. on the other side of the city, a man claiming the children should spent more time with him, since his ex-wife’s neighborhood is extremely unsafe for children to walk around and play outside in, due to serious drug problems
a...
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25 songs of the 1970s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade. no particular order. see previous post on the 60s.
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones (1971)
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green (1971)
Killer Queen - Queen (1974)
Meeting Across the River - Bruce Springsteen (1975)
Friend of the Devil - The Grateful Dead (1970)
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix (1970)
L.A. Woman - The Doors (1970)
Sunday...
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25 songs of the 1960s
my selection of favorite songs of this decade, not in any ranked order. this is the first in my current series of “random and very prone-to-change lists of chris’ favorite _____s that he makes when he is on kratom”
And Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals (1963)
Penny Lane - The Beatles (1967)
Long Black Veil - The Band (1969)
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground (1969)
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“Kierkegaard may shout in warning: ‘If there were no eternal consciousness in a...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via absurdreasoning)
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“And I’ll bet he needs a shower cause hes just like me,
and the soldiers...”
– this song is always close to my heart
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On struggling with mortality.
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
I struggle to accept my own morality and have become obsessed with the work of Aubrey de Grey. I am even counting on his research succeeding within my lifetime, and I think this expectation is unhealthy. I know you just recently covered mortality, and while I’m not having panic attacks, I’m still terrified. I’m in complete denial of death, and I’m having trouble...
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1 year ago / 2 years ago
(my freshman year journal is home on my laptop, I’d include 3 years ago if that were possible right now)
17 february 2010
today was ash wednesday, and me and cash were deep in the midst of our one true fight that we ever had. on the first day of february of that year I had become engaged in a sudden and intimate romance with a girl I was very fond of. she has gone off in her own way to...
some tracks I've been fukkin with lately
zombie - the cranberries
heimdalsgate like a promethean curse - of montreal
promises - nero
coastal brake - tycho
tikwid - animal collective
hard to handle - otis redding
polish girl - neon indian
whenever I begin to think I’ve already heard and explored and discovered all the music I will ever love, I realize just how incredibly wrong I am within approximately two (2) hours
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things I have to read about at my job
a shit ton of child abuse, child neglect, custody battles, domestic violence, and bitter and rancorous divorce proceedings.
a father from southeast claiming his ex-wife is abusing the child - the girl has asthma but the mom spokes around her, and the girl comes home with burns from “soup” and chipped teeth and bruises from “falling down.” the father lost a kidney after...
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