December 2008
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Things I Read This Year
Keep in mind I’ve only been back to my regularly scheduled reading since May (when I finished Grad School and was no longer tied down by academic readings). Plus… I am a tragically slow reader…
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pretty good, but I feel like I would have been more involved in reading it were I a parent. I am ever the sucker for post-apocalyptica, though.
Faces and...
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My Favorite Musics From 2008
1. Titus Andronicus - Airing Of Grievences: This just hit too close to home for me to not love this much.
2. The Death Set - Worldwide: How did this not end up on more (or any?) lists this year? Reminds me of The Buzzcocks which is one of the highest compliments I can probably pay.
3. Future Islands - Wave Like Home: Beautiful, sad, fun, heartbreaking, and you can dance to it. This is what...
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The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, is being...
– Indymedia.
The Dignity was trying to bring 3 tons of medical supplies to Gaza when it was attacked and damaged by Israeli ships in international waters. It has since docked in Lebanon.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or...
– Adam Gopnik, Blows Against the Empire (via spaceships) (via unburyingthelead)
I have been dwelling on this quote for days now, especially with what is going on in Gaza. It seems that no matter who is in charge anywhere, their answers are always the same.
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sarah haskins is my Hero Of 2008.
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I am too messed up for this world (part four of a...
tesslynch:
itsbedtime:
jimrock:
I feel it is my unalienable right when staying at my parent’s houses to wait for them to go to bed, get completely trashed and eat stupid amounts of their food. It is my RIGHT goddamnit. They shouldn’t be eating all that junk food anyways, they are old after all. I’m basically doing them a favor when I come downstairs at midnight, giant screwdriver in hand,...
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fightwithknives:
the great wonders of my parents’ house! merry christmas!
holy crap. Earlier I was wondering how many Christmas-related, annoying, music playing pieces of junk my mom had around the house. I counted bout 5.
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It was 1916, and things were changing fast. World War I raged in Europe....
– No, really, they hung a five-ton elephant to death in Tennessee that year.. What in the HELL, people.
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I Am Too Messed Up For This World (part three of a...
Yesterday while pondering subway entrances which have a step up before the steps leading down (in order to prevent flooding on very rainy days) I thought outloud, “Huh… You’ve got to get up to get down.”
This morning my mom called to ask how I was getting home tomorrow. Told her I’d make a stop at work then head to the Port Authority. She wondered that it’s too...
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fightwithknives:
Moustache twirl. One day I will meet you there.
I was there this year and was rockin out in the crowd for this performance, it was rad. And yes, one day you and i will tear the roof off the blip together.
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it is my birthday today. in case you hadn’t figured that one out.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years →
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i hate it when the world makes me feel like a...
But c’mon… you’re telling me that this dude had hard evidence and was willing to testify regarding Karl Rove and election fraud in Ohio…
knew where the claimed-(by Rove)-to-be-deleted White House e-mails were...
And then he dies in a fiery plane crash?
Bionic 'sex chip' that stimulates pleasure centre... →
Between this and the “President Schwarzenegger? Arnold “Absolutely” Wants The Top Job ” headline, it’s a very “The future really WILL be like Demolition Man” day today.
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For a teenager in Pittsburgh who enjoyed playing baseball and basketball but was...
– Roger Citron (via azspot)
RIP, Ellis D…. between him and Paul Newman, that’s two, badass American originals passed this year. I’m not sure they make them like they used to.
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Cats keep lost boy warm - UPI.com →
(via wendigosyndrome)
Lately the animals are better at showcasing humanity than humans are….