November 2011
188 posts
lovers, fighters,
I started up this little sideblog dealie a little while ago when I wanted for things to be less public, leaving behind my previous blog that I started straight out of surgery all the way back in 2008. I’m making the decision to return to the old blog, in part because I’m thinking of rocking it as my pen name, in part because its audience is slightly larger and, with the crowd-funding...
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via neobutterfly)
“Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book....”
– Walt Whitman (via neobutterfly)
“Answers don’t come in bottles.”
– The bartender, PDA
“It’s fun to imagine Jesus flying the Enola Gay.”
– Duncan Trussell
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via neobutterfly)
last night, while having dinner at a friend's...
a friend of his housemate’s came around and, for some reason or another, brought up angry birds. I was curious about what his reaction might be, so I said what the hell is an angry birds?, to which he replied, you don’t know what angry birds is? are you retarded? I laughed and asked him what an angry birds does, and he said, you flick birds at pigs. I laughed and asked him to remind me...
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– Jack Kerouac (via neobutterfly)
“The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and...”
– Henry Miller (via u1a)
“Never underestimate the power of actually fucking doing something.”
– Joe Rogan
“…that’s an above average exciting experience and I’m always...”
– Joe Rogan
“Psychedelics are not illegal because a loving government is concerned that you...”
– Terence McKenna (via neobutterfly)
If your government really cared for you - which they claim to, when restricting psychedlic use - do you think cigarettes would still be legal?
after
three weeks of not being able to work out on account of the fractured rib, my housemate and I got up early this morning, walked down lanes of peak hour traffic as far as the eye can see (always astonishing), jumped in the pool and swam laps until we couldn’t swim laps anymore (which didn’t take long). Sounds as though it’s going to become a regular thing which, I’m hoping,...
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between...”
– Hilaire Belloc
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to...”
– James Joyce
“I am a forest and a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Friedrich Neitzsche (via neobutterfly)
“If life wasn’t real it’d be the craziest psychedelic trip ever.”
– Joe Rogan
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are...”
– Ayn Rand
“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsk (via u1a)
“The suffering itself is not so bad, it’s the resentment against suffering that...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via u1a)
“The experienced person will be able to maintain the recognition that all...”
– Timothy Leary (via neobutterfly)
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Baba Ram Dass (via neobutterfly)
"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for... →
bridgettelizabeth:
Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worker make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn’t all moved to China.
Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because...
“A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves.”
– Edward R. Murrow (via gonzodave)
“The most destructive drugs known to the species are peddled on every street...”
– Terrence McKenna
“Nothing worth having comes without a risk.”
– Anjelica Huston (via julie911)
of course there's nothing on television.
it’s television.
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
– Mary Oliver (via misswallflower)
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via neobutterfly)
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Wiesel (via neobutterfly)
