escaping words ... from my brain

"Fear is about me. Courage is about life - I want to contribute in a meaningful way, I want to move..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:11:14 -0400

“

Fear is about me.

Courage is about life - I want to contribute in a meaningful way, I want to move with the arts, technology, observe how we receive/hear information, connect, find myself a corner and be a part of the circus. we’re passing through, collaborating without us knowing it.

”

- The lovely Jane Lui, Tictoc & a Granny bell:

clairemojher: To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested...

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:11:06 -0400

clairemojher:

To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested Development, a few of us greeting card artists put our heads (and pencils) together and whipped up a (fake) mini-line of greeting cards that anyone can download and print out for free!

It’s super easy! Download the high-res files here. They even come with a dotted line for the fold and should print easily to your basic home printer.

And if you like them, please share them to your heart’s content!

"[T]he really important thing about being alive is how you relate to other people and the world..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:36:44 -0400

“[T]he really important thing about being alive is how you relate to other people and the world around you, rather than how many tasks you complete or how quickly.”

- Some lovely words from Andrew O’Hehir’s review of the Korean documentary, Planet of Snail. (via idonethis)

"‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if,..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:55:48 -0400

“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

- Roger Ebert.

A group of good friends, having fun, doing good things for each...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:17:08 -0500

A group of good friends, having fun, doing good things for each other.
I mean, that’s what’s important in life.

This entire episode! ♥

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:16:00 -0500

This entire episode! ♥

on today's walk

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:30:00 -0500

The suburbs can be so quiet away from the main roads. I hear plaintive wind-chimes and a squeaking tricycle powered by the enormous energy of a little boy, the dry patter of dead leaves still hanging on a tree in the wind.

Someone is cooking with onions and garlic and cumin, which smells infinitely better than the exhaust of the car that just passed by.

There’s that family of deer that are terrorizing the neighborhood. Or maybe this posse is part of a larger roving deer gang that people keep seeing. This lot, they like to graze on the high school grounds and seem unruffled by humans barging in on them while they eat afternoon tea or dinner or whatever it is. I hear a wild rustle as I pass a thicket and cross the road rather hurriedly. Who knows what will happen with a deer gang.

I’m walking away from the sunset that today gets almost cartoonishly, violently pink and orange and toward the more placid gray-purple-blue and I can see the half-moon high up in the sky, already bright.

I glimpse through the picture window of a house, but can’t hear, a tiny girl practicing piano at an upright, and I wonder if she will continue playing when she is no longer a tiny girl. I see the street sign dedicated in memory of someone who died on 9/11, and this time, I look up his name when I get home. He was younger than I am now.

ha!

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:08:03 -0500

ha!

Photo

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:02:52 -0500

staying inside & making hot cocoa

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:20:13 -0400

staying inside & making hot cocoa:

nprfreshair:

Recipe: Hot Cocoa

Jack Bishop mentioned this recipe on today’s Fresh Air and we couldn’t help but get the entire recipe.

Serves 4 in small mugs

Why This Recipe Works
Our ideal hot cocoa recipe would give us serious chocolate flavor and a rich, satisfying consistency. We found that 1 1/2…

Simone Dinnerstein's Bach Between The Notes : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:52:00 -0400

Simone Dinnerstein's Bach Between The Notes : Deceptive Cadence : NPR:

elizs:

Love Simone Dinnerstein!

Ditto! And Bach too.

"It’s great to be an adult! You can make soup for breakfast but if you live by yourself then you..."

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:26:10 -0400

“

It’s great

to be an adult!
You can make soup

for breakfast but

if you live by yourself then

you are the one

who has to go out

and buy the chicken.

”

- From Angela Veronica Wong’s how to survive a hotel fire. (via the review from the rumpus)

"Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so many-chambered and lavish and..."

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:51:27 -0400

“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so many-chambered and lavish and abundant in tones and suggestions, that has so much room for near-contradiction and ambiguity and those places in memory or imagination that can’t be simplified, or put into easy words, that it allows the reader to keep many things in her head and heart at the same time, and to descend, as by a spiral staircase, deeper into herself and those things that won’t be squeezed into an either/or. With each clause, we’re taken further and further from trite conclusions — or that at least is the hope — and away from reductionism, as if the writer were a dentist, saying “Open wider” so that he can probe the tender, neglected spaces in the reader (though in this case it’s not the mouth that he’s attending to but the mind).”

- Love this Pico Iyer piece in support of long sentences. Word travel.

imwithkanye: And The Golden Globes Go To… Tina Fey and Amy...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:23:37 -0400

imwithkanye:

And The Golden Globes Go To… Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. [via]

Well, substitute other nouns for Emmys and husband and...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:49:54 -0400

Well, substitute other nouns for Emmys and husband and that’s basically me.

Soooo, not as awesome when accompanied by general lack of success.

therumpus: COMIQUES: SEASONAL BY ANNE EMOND I love fall, but...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:50:11 -0400

therumpus:

COMIQUES: SEASONAL BY ANNE EMOND

I love fall, but yes.

asiansnotstudying: Totally Biased Web Exclusive with Hari...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:12:02 -0400

asiansnotstudying:

Totally Biased Web Exclusive with Hari Kondabolu: Mindy Kaling’s New Show (by TotallyBiasedFX)

<3

This totally made me LOL all the way through. Delightful.

More on The Mindy Project for reals though:

I liked NY mag’s feature story, The New New Girl, on Kaling. If there’s one thing I really admire about her (other than what sounds like an awesome work ethic) is her confidence, or at least, projection of confidence. Wish I had some of that these days, she said wistfully, from inside her shell. Yes, I am a turtle, how did you know.

Anyhoo, I caught the pilot ep yesterday and am cautiously optimistic. Enough moments of sharp funniness to save me from worrying so much about the other moments that felt flat to me. Fall TV!! :D

Stepping into the little cat hospital, a cozy, cluttered space...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:40:19 -0400

Stepping into the little cat hospital, a cozy, cluttered space that the oldest and sickest cats call home, Haltunen greeted Irina Popovetz, one of the volunteers who looks after the cats. Then she greeted Kusya (“Oh, this one has no tail!”), Jacqueline (“Look how fat we are!”), Sofiko (“You are very old!), and Assol, a tabby named for an impoverished literary heroine who waited at the seaside for a man sailing a ship with scarlet sails to come for her.

— Russia’s Museum Cats

put this code into google

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:03:14 -0400

motherjones:

barackfuckingobama:

opponents:

2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9

LITERALLY MY FACE RIGHT NOW

Maximum nerdage or the day. Well-played, Serwer.

This is the only good thing in my world right now. I want to...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:20:00 -0400

This is the only good thing in my world right now. I want to turn into a bubble too. And be bffs w/ Jemaine & Bret, of course.