2/1/13
1/17/13
11/4/12
The only drawback of seeing close friends after a huge intermission is being asked about past girlfriends and the scoop of how things went down. Been pretty good about out of sight and out of mind for awhile now, but the recent influx of intermittent conversations with her as the main topic has brought it all back to the forefront. I think it's time to end my off season and start training again.
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"Last night, I entered Central Park at midnight. I chased exhaustion as hard as I could, crested a hill without getting close. Descending fast, no hands, no helmet, a stinging on my face. I wanted July back. I never imagined a month could swell so fat with promise. It was just a spin, I see now, just a fast and furious spin. Someday I will look back with bemusement and calm. I see that, too. But in the park, at midnight, I just wanted to forget, to catch up to numbness. So I pedaled."
10/25/12
10/9/12
9/1/12
Bill Nye, cool as fuck:
"Look, these people they're fucking retarded. Rape can't cause pregnancy? Breastmilk cures homosexuality? I caused a hurricane by challenging creationism? Who can possibly take these people seriously anymore?"
The slightly uncomfortable anchors then tried to change the subject, but Nye persisted:
"It used to be these Republicans didn't believe in global warming or evolution. That was bad enough. Now they don't even believe in egg + sperm = baby. Where does Todd Akin think babies come from? Does he think there are separate storks for people who were raped and people who weren't? "
"Hey look over there! It's the rape stork. It drops its babies directly at the orphanage."
"He's a fucking idiot. Just a plain fucking idiot. I'm sorry - I don't say that word very often - but it happens to fit in this case. He's just a fucking idiot."
8/16/12
The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.
7/27/12
"Can you take time out of your busy schedule of gelling your hair and swimming home to attend?"
"Listen dude, I've got platanos to make and a sister's quinces to attend. I've got big things to do."
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“Dear US Government, I’m from Lebanon, you don’t scare me, you don’t understand. My friends were killed in 2008, my house was bombed and my neighborhood ruined. My father was killed in 2006. You don’t scare me at all. If you want to scare me, send me for torture in Syria. But you can’t anymore, because Syrians are revolting.” Twenty-one year old hacker hacking the planet.
Oh shit, and now he's doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
7/23/12
Watched the new Batman. It entertained enough, but pretty disgusted with how much of a fucking twat Christopher Nolan revealed himself to be.
"The Dark Night Rises is a portrayal of a workers’ revolution from the perspective of the bourgeoisie. It is a profoundly authoritarian movie which includes severe criticisms of revolutionaries, but also liberal democracy, bourgeois charity and the apathetic, ultimately offering a hopeless political vision that only the status quo is tenable and that one should look to ones own personal happiness." Read more.
6/27/12
5/2/12
Our forebears overthrew kings and dictators, but they didn’t abolish the institutions by which kings and dictators ruled: they democratized them. Yet whoever operates these institutions—whether it’s a king, a president, or an electorate—the experience on the receiving end is roughly the same. Laws, bureaucracy, and police came before democracy; they function the same way in a democracy as in a dictatorship.
(Crimethinc recent poster series)