January 2011
“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,...”
– William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act II Scene I
“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in...”
– Ray Bradbury (via orangecorralandbone)
Cheer Up, Buttercup! - Madeline Ava
Rising Food Prices Can Topple Governments, Too →
“The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says its global food price index is at a record high, above even where it stood during the last food crisis three years ago. In early 2008, rising prices caused riots in dozens of countries — several of which are now seeing uprisings once again.”
Fuck yeah, 5k!: Vegan Banana Nut Pancakes Recipe →
fuckyeah5k:
BEST! FREEBIE! DAY! BREAKFAST! EVER!
I doubled the batch since my in laws are here so I’ll give you the measurements for that instead of the single batch.
Makes: 18 pancakes
Serving size: 3 pancakes (I only had two)
Calories per pancake: 82
Ingredients 2 cup flour 4 tsp baking powder 2…
possibly my favorite food.
Watchcurate:
Thao + Mirah – How Dare You | Yours Truly
“Будет луна.
Есть уже
немножко.
А вот и полная повисла в воздухе.
Это бог,...”
– The moon is emerging. It going to be here soon. Now, it hangs in the air, full and stark. That is probably God, with a divine silver spoon, groping in the fish-soup of stars.
—Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Moonlit Night,” A. Kneller, trans.
(via aubade)
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TRANSPRIDE: Trans-misogyny →
transpride:
Of all of the gender and sexual minorities in our culture, transsexual women tend to be the most maligned, ridiculed, and despised because we are uniquely positioned at the intersection of three binary gender-based forms of prejudice:
Transphobia is an irrational fear of, aversion to, or…
Iambic Pentameter Tote Bag- Poets.org - Poetry,... →
best book bag ever?
Fuck Yeah Women's History: Who Said It Was Simple →
afrosoul:
There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them…
“I am angry with X, with Y, with Z,
for not being you.
Enthusiasms jump at me,...”
– Denise Levertov, Psyche in Somerville
“Look in the mirror. Let us both look.
Here is my naked body.
Apparently you...”
– Anna Swir, Large Intestine
“Is there a solitary wretch who hies
To the tall cliff, with starting pace or...”
– Charlotte Smith, Sonnet: On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
“I made a sand castle.
In rolled the sea.
‘All sand castles
...”
– Lilian Moore, Mine
“The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its...”
– Pablo Neruda, The Song of Despair (Translated here by W.S. Merwin)
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation
kittyminny:
Always With Me | Spirited Away OST
THE OCTOPUS GARDEN Signed Collage Art Giclee by... →
“I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder...”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I Am Waiting
“Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar
—Laurence...”
– Agha Shahid Ali, Tonight
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Censors and Sensibility: RIP, Comics Code... →
“Superfriends, Ronin, Comet Men, lend me your ears.
I come to bury the Comics Magazine Association of America, not to praise it.
The evil that mysterious self-censoring publishing associations do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones — so let it be with the CCMA.
So are you, uh … You gonna keep that up? Through this whole thing? ‘Cause I’ve got...