January 2012
16 posts
http://www.life.com/hdgallery/23295/life-classic-eu... →
Astounding.
HITCHHIKERS
by Charles Simic
After a Walker Evans photograph from the thirties Hard times brought them out early On this dreary stretch of road Carrying a suitcase and a bedroll With a frying pan tied to it, The kind you use over a campfire When a moss-covered log is your pillow. He’s hopeful and she’s ashamed To be asking a stranger to take them Away from here in a cloud...
rejectedjokes Ben Schwartz
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, is it lonely?”
Winter Thanks
by Marcus Jackson
To the furnace—tall, steel rectangle containing a flawless flame. To heat gliding through ducts, our babies asleep like bundled opal. Praise every furry grain of every warm hour, praise each deflection of frost, praise the fluent veins, praise the repair person, trudging ...
Ron Swanson vs. Food [VIDEO] →
Did I mention I love Parks and Recreation?
Did I mention I also love this blog?
Excerpt from "Not Yet"
“Isn’t it worth any joy it might have caused you not to have dreamt to wake at night and find you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?” -Galway Kinnell
July 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
Sentimental Education
by Tony Hoagland
And when we were eight, or nine, our father took us back into the Alabama woods, found a rotten log, and with his hunting knife pried off a slab of bark to show the hundred kinds of bugs and grubs that we would have to eat in a time of war. “The ones who will survive,” he told us, looking at us hard, “are the ones who are willing to do...
April 2010
4 posts
THIS AMERICAN LIFE: "377: Scenes From a Recession" →
TIME: Super-High Alcohol Beer Heads to the U.S. →
I will surely stay away from this stuff.
Do Not Fear
“Do not fear what may happen tomorrow. The same loving Father who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow, and everyday. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginings.”
-St. Francis de Sales
March 2010
11 posts
FYI: Health Care Reform →
On Sunday, a big win for human rights in America.
“Affluent families would be required to pay additional taxes. Most Americans would be required to have health insurance and face federal penalties if they do not buy it. And it is still unclear what effect, if any, the legislation would have on rising out-of-pocket medical costs and premiums. But there is no question that the legislation...
Jon Stewart Takes on Glenn Beck →
If you have 15 minutes, this is well worth the watch.
“Beck’s Rules: If you subscribe to an idea, you also subscribe to that idea’s ideology— and to every possible negative consequence that ideology remotely implies when you carry it to absurd extremes.”
“In 9 states, including the District of Columbia, there is no specific law making...”
– President Obama’s Facebook feed (via devilsarcade)
WatchI present to you Iron King, the greatest television show on Earth.
“However, often Iron King is unable to defeat the clan’s giant robots without help from Gentaro, who wields a weapon called the Iron Belt that can become a slender sword or a whip capable of hurting giant monsters. Transforming into Iron King quickly dehydrates Goro and he can only remain as Iron King for a short...
The Worst Possible Things You Could Become a Fan...
Facebook allows you to “Become a Fan” of a great many things. Here’s a short list of things you shouldn’t:
I hate when people stop replying to my texts in a important conversation
DIPPING/ CHEWING TOBACCO IS DISGUSTING
My earphones must be untangled before I can listen to any music
That feeling you get in your stomach when you hear bad news.
You screwed me over so badly it just...