September 2009
51 posts
Interview with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster
Poetry & Popular Culture was pleasantly surprised when it opened up the September 2009 issue of Wired magazine and discovered that a significant portion of a feature article on Craigslist (Gary Wolf’s “Why Craigslist is Such a Mess”) was given over to the poetry that has become part of the warp and woof of what is now the world’s largest classified section. Wolf...
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into...”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via infinitebutterflies)
i want a tranny
this tumblr started as something private and i made the mistake of sharing it with a person i know. and also my current boyfriend. i’ve decided not to post some stuff that i would have by now… but the person i know made the point one time that we’re least honest with the people we love the most because we don’t want them to think less of us. i’ve fallen into that trap...
The Canon, by Natalie Angier →
When the second of her two children turned thirteen, my sister decided that it finally was time to let their membership lapse in two familiar family haunts: the science museum and the zoo. These were kiddie places, she told me. Her children now had more mature tastes. They liked refined forms of entertainment—art museums, the theater, ballet. Isn’t that something? My sister’s...
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conversation can be such crap!
why is it that some people ask questions about you only to find the things they have in common with you? what’s wrong with asking for interest, curiosity, knowledge?
why when you answer the thing they didn’t hope you’d say do they have nothing to say?
why when you say the right thing do they slap and high five like you have everything else in common too?
dah!
conversation...
“I do this for myself because I am my own...
Reinhold Messner has fascinated me since I first heard about him a few years ago. I read about him from time to time, most recently the short article from Wikipedia, where I found a link to the article below, published in Outside Magazine in October 2002.
“Reinhold Don’t Care What You Think”
by Brad Wetzier
“FIFTEEN MINUTES,” growls Reinhold Messner, the king of...
“Never attribute to malice that which can satisfactorily be explained by...”
– Napoleon
Obama on Kanye: "He's a jackass" →
“Well that explains everything! You gotta get into terrorism if you’re...”
– a joke, by Rakesy
“Video games are the new golf.”
“Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.”
– Kyle Olson via Friday Night Lights
“Never confuse motion with action.”
– Benjamin Franklin
i wish she'd stop posting things i love
…but i hope she never stops.
i want to reblog about 85% of what infinitebutterflies posts, but if i do i feel like a big poser, but that’s crap because there’s nothing wrong with loving the same stuff, but sometimes i want to give her the same awesome stuff she gives me but i dunno where to find it so in the meantime i wanna duplicate the things she finds and keep them in my own...
“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
– Banksy
