April 2012
[T]he mistakes that produce these regrets [of the dying] are all errors of...
– Errors of Omission (via paperbits)
I can’t see what will emerge afterwards, anymore than I can see what the...
– via Does Occupy signal the death of contemporary art?
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The saddest piece of advice you'll ever get about...
erikamoen:
teahousecomic:
In the last few months several of our friends have said to us, “I do not know how you handle all of the crap you guys get on the internet.” Most of the time our response to them is, “We do our best to try to ignore it, but it is surprisingly hard.”
I’ll be honest. I was a nerdy kid and I was unpopular and picked on, but I’ve never been bullied the way I’m bullied...
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Guest-Directed Self-Portrait #13 (Dir. Katie West)
mollypeck:
therealkatiewest:
I want to see your fandom. I want to see you cosplaying as Catwoman with your Batman comic collection. I want to see you as a Stormtrooper surrounded by all your Star Wars figures. I want to see you as the Doctor with your Tardis cookie jar, Tardis clock, and a full-size Dalek replica. I want to see you in your library closed in by shelves and shelves of books. I...
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Stephen King interview
neil-gaiman:
I just put the text up of the interview I did with Stephen King in the Sunday Times Magazine on my blog at neilgaiman.com. It’s a much longer interview than the one in the magazine, and if you are interested in working writers, you might enjoy it….
INSTAPAPERED!!
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Writing is inseperable from becoming: in writing, one becomes-woman,...
– Gilles Deleuze, “Literature and Life” (via pnoom)
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536. Learn to identify birds by song, and you will...
Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady →
claytoncubitt:
“You constantly revile me with your singular lack of vision. Be aware, there is an essential truth and beauty in all things. From the death throes of a speared gazelle to the damaged smile of a freeway homeless. But that does not mean that the invisibility of something implies its lack of being. Though simpleton babies foolishly believe the person before them vanishes when they...
Hello
Is anybody still there?
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Tumblr URL change.
Will be happening later today.
This shouldn’t affect followers on Tumblr but if you read me by RSS and this is this has been the last post you got for a while, please visit electronicalrattlebag.tumblr.com where I’ll link to the new place.
Cheers then!
x
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I have never felt like a good person, but I think that, thanks to my father’s...
– Héctor Abad (via magnificentruin)
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The contrast with sport is instructive: in both realms of human endeavour, the...
– Will Self - In defence of obscure words
pointed to by Motley
Things I Have Learned #3
tonguestubble:
• A Beijing Spring is fucking warm and fucking windy and goes from barren to full bloom in about 4 days
• I will not be making any deals with any wives of any Chinese politicians
• I really know nothing about color or how to use it (this is being rectified)
• Piracy in China is unstoppable, much like Kenny G who is EVERYWHERE over here
• 6 months doesn’t always feel that long
...
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What is some advice you can give to an aspiring...
mollycrabapple:
Work hard, make friends, don’t give up. A bit more: be incredibly opportunistic and on the hunt for places that can use your art. Be hard on yourself. Shun all the woo woo vagueness that people tell artists: “fulfilling your dreams”, “nurturing your creativity”, the whole lot of that. It exists to sell self-help books to dilettantes. Care about money. You’ll need it. If not...
My phone is dead.
Back to Stone Age Phone.
Hence quietness.
This may be a blessing.
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Diamond star thrills astronomers →
claytoncubitt:
“Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.
Astronomers have decided...