February 2012
36 posts
“I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“…the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco
This Valentine's Day, let us remember the unspoken... →
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
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Prolefeed - Accent Challenge by Jason Ryan Wallace
ACCENT CHALLENGE.
Your name and username.
Where you’re from.
Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
What is it...
“Aren’t you all entitled to your half-assed musings on the divine?...”
– David Mitchell, “Evil Vicar” sketch, That Mitchell and Webb Look
“Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number - Apollo...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral →
thelittlesea:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that...
“How can hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
raptoravatar:
ex-genius replied to your post: “…put your little hand in mine/ there aint no hill or mountain we can’t climb.”
I love the little bit that looks like a tooth that hops out.
“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in...”
– Virginia Woolf in The Waves, quoted by the excellent American Roulette. (via mills)