and adoring every sentence.
“So mono means one. And rail means rail. And that concludes our intensive three-week training.” — Lyle Lanley, from Marge vs. the Monorail
“I am by trade a novelist. It is, I think, a harmless trade, though it is not everywhere considered a respectable one. Novelists put dirty language into the mouths of their characters, and they show these characters fornicating or going on the toilet. Moreover it is not a useful trade, as that of the carpenter or the pastry cook. The novelist passes the time for you between one useful action and another; he helps fill the gaps that appear in the serious fabric of living. He is a mere entertainer, a sort of clown. He mimes, he makes grotesque gestures, he is pathetic or comic and sometimes both, he sends words spinning through the air like colored balls.” — From The Clockwork Condition, by Anthony Burgess (via wwnorton)
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Jimmy Page and William S. Burroughs
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From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
” — David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)(Source: cracked.com, via teawithjulia)
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But I’ve got mandarin cheesecake and Adventure Time, and I’m happy to settle with that.
This Landsat image of 3 October 2011 shows the Mississippi River Delta, where the largest river in the United States empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
In this false-colour image, land vegetation appears pink, while the sediment in the surrounding waters are bright blue and green. The delta is known as the ‘bird-foot’ delta because of the shape created by the channels extending outward.The size of the Mississippi River Delta built over millions of years owing to sediment deposition. The tons of sediment carried by the river system created the wetlands in southern Louisiana, which are home to many endangered species and help to protect the mainland from hurricane winds by acting like speed bumps.
Over the last several decades, however, the delta’s sediment load has been drastically reduced by natural and man-made factors. Extensive oil and gas extraction causes the subsidence of the delta and wetlands, and rising sea levels increase erosion as the fresh water vegetation dies due to the influx of salt water.
Currently, a chunk of land the size of a football field is lost about every half an hour.
Mother of God…
(Source: thatswhaticallsexy)
The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
- E. Joseph Cossman
You withered mouth rejects a should-be refreshing drink. Your weary stomach panics with the presence of this cold, non-alcoholic liquid. The sun seems determined to burn your feeble body until you’re a puddle of straight alcohol. The humidity manages to clog your already slow and confused brain. And then your self-esteem chips at itself because you wasted a lovely day painfully lying inside, reciting your weekly vow that you will never drink alcohol ever again.
Life Of Brian
“He won’t be happy with that, he doesn’t like to lose.” - Every sports commentator.
If I was a sportsman I’d say that I hate winning and love to lose.
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