December 2009
“Don’t eat meat. Be as passionate as you can all the time. Don’t use the word...”
– John Darnielle, when asked in an interview to give advice for the “young people.”
PS: it’s a great interview.
(via flannelowl) (via peacenikseekspeacenik) (via itsthemusicpeople)
November 2009
Dostoevsky
dostoyevsky:
against the wall, the firing squad ready. then he got a reprieve. suppose they had shot Dostoevsky? before he wrote all that? I suppose it wouldn’t have mattered not directly. there are billions of people who have never read him and never will. but as a young man I know that he got me through the factories, past the whores, lifted me high through the night and put me down in a...
Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela →
Bisexuality: A Contemporary Paradox for Women |... →
queero:
The cultural construction of “lesbian” and “heterosexual” women in late-nineteenth-century European cultures created both the possibility of conceiving the “bisexual” woman and the belief that bisexuality cannot exist. Social scientists have suggested several alternatives to dichotomous constructions of sexuality to facilitate the conceptualization of and therefore empirical research on,...
“Semenya is breathtakingly butch. Her torso is like the chest plate on a suit of...”
– Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya : The New Yorker (via aminatou) (via sexismandthecity)
Instructions For Life In The New Millennium
peacenikseekspeacenik:
beebsbanter:
By The Dalai Lama
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5....
““It Felt Love”
How did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world...”
– Hafiz (via oversouled) (via poetrynews)
peacenikseekspeacenik:
veganarchy:
1:52pm Brian
how many anarchists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
1:53pm michal
oh oh i’ve heard this one! i can’t member the punch line though
*remember
1:53pm Brian
i’m making it up right now
1:55pm michal
well?
1:57pm Brian
well, first there’s a consensus meeting about where to hold the actual meeting to discuss said lightbulb. after hours of...
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
cuddling
sweet potatoes
fleece
singing
knitting
zombie movies
drinking water out of mason jars
playing catch with my kitten
coconut bliss
writing
reading
comic books
naps
yoga
free time to spend with nate
meeting new people
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
rain
friends who buy me dinner
live jazz concerts
rain
agave nectar in my tea
making progress in my novel
forcing myself to write even when i don’t feel like i can
rain
meeting new friends
smoothies
new recipes to try
writing letters
feeling proud of my body
drawing
trying to fit my arms into nate’s coat (while he is wearing it)
playing with...
Judith Butler on Caster Semenya's case →
brandileeeeee: (via noteasybeingred)
JUDITH BUTLER FTW
“When he died, I understood that he was such a very kindred, dear and necessary...”
– Tolstoy about Dostoyevsky. (via dostoyevsky) (via peacenikseekspeacenik)
Leo Tolstoy on why YOU should be a vegetarian.
peacenikseekspeacenik:
sometimesagreatnotion:
“I only wish to say that for a good life a certain order of good actions is indispensable; that if a man’s aspirations toward right living be serious they will inevitably follow one definite sequence; and that in this sequence the first virtue a man will strive after will be self-control, self-restraint. And in seeking for self-control a man will...
“It doesn’t seem that the protests are working against getting the tuition...”
– Ryan Gamble “UC Berkeley Protest and UC Davis Protest leads to arrest” The Examiner (via itsthemusicpeople)
“A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an...”
– Andrew Harvey
peacenikseekspeacenik:
tiredofbeingignored:
“I know I may not be “traditionally pretty,” but playas line up around the block to make some time with me, and they aren’t even getting it right then. The line is just for the wristband, yo. The hotness is not about age, looks, body type, race - it is about honesty, knowing who you are and being who you are, without trying to front like you are...
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
maple syrup
fresh fruit
visiting nate’s friends & family
free juice
breathing
inspiration for a new zine
the sound of music
ice cream
inside jokes
cuddly kittens
new books to read
sleep
naps
knitting
meditation
momo NOT throwing up in the car on the way home
packages from friends
poetry
a break from monotony
flannel sheets
hot showers
an...
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to...”
– Susan B. Anthony (penny-farthings were fixies too) (via syntheticpubes)
