1. Neil Gaiman is awesome for posting the awesomeness of Kurt Vonnegut. Pure awesome.

    I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

    It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

    Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.

    So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.

    What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

    —Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Breakfast of Champions. (via neil-gaiman)

    Posted 6 months ago | Link ∞

  2. news

    Why is it that The Onion has the best news coverage right now?

    Posted 10 months ago | Link ∞

  3. baby

    I feel like I live with Maggie from the Simpsons…. The thumb sucking is getting LOUD!

    Posted 10 months ago | Link ∞

  4. I sometimes wish I had the Doctor to translate… and often feel Elsa probably calls me “Big Milk Thing” as well. 

    Posted 10 months ago | Link ∞

  5. And I need this one too… I know all too well the horrors of swans.  One ate my sandwich somewhere in Germany while I was waiting for a boat at age 4 or 5.  It was quite traumatic.  Beautiful, evil things. dutchslavetrade: Swans Can Be Aggressive (E.G. Zeus), 2006 60cm x 91cm acrylic on canvas The first time I came across a swan habitat, somewhere in England, there was signage reading ‘Swans can be aggressive. Please do not feed them.” My processing of that information went as such, “wha?…sure….Zeus!…-_-.” Swans appear in myriad folk traditions. The Norse, Slavic, Aniu, Irish, Greek folklore/myth traditions all deal with the swans ability to transform from swan to human. Along with the physical transformation comes a shift in temperament or cardnial humor. Swan Lake,..and shit.

    And I need this one too… I know all too well the horrors of swans.  One ate my sandwich somewhere in Germany while I was waiting for a boat at age 4 or 5.  It was quite traumatic.  Beautiful, evil things.

    dutchslavetrade:

    Swans Can Be Aggressive (E.G. Zeus), 2006 60cm x 91cm acrylic on canvas The first time I came across a swan habitat, somewhere in England, there was signage reading ‘Swans can be aggressive. Please do not feed them.” My processing of that information went as such, “wha?…sure….Zeus!…-_-.” Swans appear in myriad folk traditions. The Norse, Slavic, Aniu, Irish, Greek folklore/myth traditions all deal with the swans ability to transform from swan to human. Along with the physical transformation comes a shift in temperament or cardnial humor. Swan Lake,..and shit.

    Posted 10 months ago | Link ∞

  6. Okay… WANT! dutchslavetrade: Le Taureau, 2002 This is the last in a series of six linocuts. Le Taureau deals with lowly or non-divine inspiration and the generating of ideas. The artist figure sits on a swing/pendulum symbolically going back and forth over ideas. Above her to the right are scrawled writings/notes. To the right is a locked combination lock representing the accessibility or secured nature of ideas in two aspects. Firstly the unlocking of ideas, secondly the locking of ideas for fear of idea theft. To the right of the lock is a birdhouse, which I use to represent isolation, specifically the isolation often needed to execute ideas. There are few things I find more exciting/attractive and frightening/repulsive than a stack of blank canvases. The canvases below the birdhouse are emblematic of that paradox.  The Taurus tends to be earthy, the pastoral midsection is reflective of this aspect as well as the grounded or organic origins of some ideas, those not arrived at by some quick flash of inspiration. The Taurean idea - ‘slow but sure’ or bullish, oxen-like, plodding forwards steadily, strongly and surely towards the finished product. The snail atop the canvas at the bottom continues the theme of slowness specifically in the painting process, so slow that the snail’s shadow out runs him.

    Okay… WANT!

    dutchslavetrade:

    Le Taureau, 2002

    This is the last in a series of six linocuts. Le Taureau deals with lowly or non-divine inspiration and the generating of ideas. The artist figure sits on a swing/pendulum symbolically going back and forth over ideas. Above her to the right are scrawled writings/notes. To the right is a locked combination lock representing the accessibility or secured nature of ideas in two aspects. Firstly the unlocking of ideas, secondly the locking of ideas for fear of idea theft. To the right of the lock is a birdhouse, which I use to represent isolation, specifically the isolation often needed to execute ideas. There are few things I find more exciting/attractive and frightening/repulsive than a stack of blank canvases. The canvases below the birdhouse are emblematic of that paradox.  The Taurus tends to be earthy, the pastoral midsection is reflective of this aspect as well as the grounded or organic origins of some ideas, those not arrived at by some quick flash of inspiration. The Taurean idea - ‘slow but sure’ or bullish, oxen-like, plodding forwards steadily, strongly and surely towards the finished product. The snail atop the canvas at the bottom continues the theme of slowness specifically in the painting process, so slow that the snail’s shadow out runs him.

    Posted 10 months ago | Link ∞

  7. I haven’t bought a pair of Docs in years, but OMG!!!! I simply adore the white Mary Jane’s; don’t you?  I could completely dress up as Hello Kitty for Halloween! Eek! Yikes!

    I haven’t bought a pair of Docs in years, but OMG!!!! I simply adore the white Mary Jane’s; don’t you?  I could completely dress up as Hello Kitty for Halloween! Eek! Yikes!

    Posted 1 year ago | Link ∞

  8. Sigh…

    Library of Congress here I come to research you. You may want to be scared… I kinda am.

    Posted 1 year ago | Link ∞

  9. :(

    I am already more confused than I have EVER been in a class before (including that crazy masters level grammar class I took) and want to quit.  I know I won’t, but seriously, I do not see myself getting an A in this class since people are posting research project topics I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IN MY LIFE already.  Where are they getting them from??? I hate my life right now, and would rather just go finish reading my nice little Christopher Moore book in the other room.  Giant vampire cats names Chet seem downright cuddly next to this….

    LEADER 00000cam  2200421Ia 4500 
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    010    2007925449 
    020    9780545010221 :
    020    0545010225 :
    020    9780545010221 
    020    9780545029360 :
    020    0545029368 :
    035    (OCoLC)85443494 
    040    DOV|cDOV|dZPX|dBAKER|dZPX|dBTCTA|dIUK|dIOS|dJPL|dOCLCQ
           |dLF3|dSVP|dJZ6|dYBM|dIXA|dIHI|dINT
    043    e-uk-en
    049    INTD
    090    PR6068.O93|bH3729 2007b
    100 1  Rowling, J. K.
    245 10 Harry Potter and the deathly hallows /|cby J.K. Rowling ;
           illustrations by Mary GrandPré.
    250    1st ed.
    260    New York :|bArthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of
           Scholastic,|c2007.
    300    x, 759 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
    500    “Year 7” —spine.

    And so on… the numbers go on for another page on this one… My brain may explode.

    Posted 1 year ago | Link ∞

  10. Textbooks are created of EVIL!

    It’s not good when all of the reviews of the mandatory, all-of-the-quizzes-and-tests-will-come-directly-from-your-readings textbook for a cataloging class say that it is not comprehendable, confusing, the worst book ever written, etc., etc.  Yeah, that’s going to help us get organized!

    Posted 1 year ago | Link ∞