December 2011
136 posts
6-word short stories
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via v0lpe)
“Sometimes I don’t feel very social and I just go to sleep.”
– Ezra Koenig (via creatingaquietmind)
“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep...”
– Salman Rushdie (via cite-belle)
“Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously.”
– Arland Ussher (via hoodoothatvoodoo)
Watchfatmdedicatedblog:
Florence Welch- Walking On Broken Glass (Annie Lennox Cover Live at vh1 Divas Celebrates Soul)
Fucking incredible. I’ll be listening to this on repeat for days. Download mp3 here :) You’re welcome:3
Desert Well: One teachers approach to preventing... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same...”
– Russell Hoban (via mythologyofblue) 