January 2012
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The Unfortunate Implications.
There is a reason to be ashamed of my pride.
My fictions are extensions of your life full of lies.
My fighting spirit is inspired by your rigid stubbornness.
I care too much, and I feel too much.
You care in the wrong way; you feel for no reason.
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They say menopause affects only women; I beg to...
Your mood swings affect us all.
You don’t see how goddamn paradoxical your logic is.
Your mistake somehow translates into my future.
You think that me being independent is a bad way for me to be independent.
Your fucking burrito bullshit should just die with the mouldy-fucking-bread.
You are a raging bitch.
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Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex... →
The idea of Orkney as a font of Stone Age culture isn’t completely new.
I will always wonder why there are people with the seemingly-strange compulsion of digging things up just for the sake of figuring the past out, but then I understand, to some degree, that there is a sense of being noble in questing for the past and trying to understand its impact on today.
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Codecademy's Yearlong Computer Programming... →
Surely you know how to code?
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"Please complete these prompts with at least two...
What makes me happy reminds me about how fleeting everything is.
What makes me happy also makes me sad.
What worries me is that there are too many things going on.
What worries me is that there isn’t enough time for anything.
What I need at present and in the future is unadulterated assurance.
What I need at present and in the future is not to feel so alone.
“Now share...
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listsforthefuture:
I was young.
I was stupid.
I was naive.
There are so many excuses for the untrue.
There’s no denying a first love.
Even when there is no laughter nor tears.
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downontheupside replied to your post: downontheupside replied to your post:…
Or you could put what you have into the thing you’ll give to Char and I’ll keep up with it as it goes? 8D AHAHA /suuuuperslowdownloadspeeds
Oooh, yes! As soon as possible, then. C:
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downontheupside replied to your post: downontheupside replied to your post:…
Something to add to my list, I suppose? 8D
Definitely! :p Here’s the most up-to-date place to find it, as far as I know—just be careful with the source, if ever, because the Commie source didn’t work for me. :]
[ edit : Download the torrents; direct downloads require a login. Some torrents...
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downontheupside replied to your post: downontheupside replied to your photo: (via Kanji…
Well, it seems like everyone in Persona 4 has their own story to tell, so pretty much everyone’s an interesting character. I wouldn’t really be surprised if it were Chie or the others as well, actually. =))))
Which is why I’m very much enjoying P4 the anime; the premise itself is awesomesauce. 8D...
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downontheupside replied to your photo: (via Kanji Tatsumi - Persona 4 by *masquevale on…
After reading up on this guy, I’m not surprised. :)
Ahaha! It’s not purely like that, though. :p The runner-ups on my mental list are Chie, Kuma, and Naoto—yes, in that order—and they’re very close behind. Chie was my favorite up until the introduction of Kanji, and I’ve...
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The More the... →
About six months after I decided I was gay, I got married. Nothing fancy, just city hall and a small party afterwards, and then Tim and I bought a nice place in a nice part of town and went about with our lives. We cooked meals or ordered out. We puttered around the house, not fixing things quite as well as we hoped. We slept in the same bed and usually Tim took too much of the covers.
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T.: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
Dr. Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
Mrs. Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter.)
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne: It crosseth for thee.
Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
Constable: To get a better view.
Yeats: She was following the Faeries that sang to her to come away with them from the dull, bucolic comfort of the farmyard to the waters and the wild.
Shelley: 'Tis a metaphor for the pursuits of man: though 'twas deemed an extraordinary occurrence at the time, still it brought little to bear on the great scheme of time and history, and was ultimately fruitless and forgotten.
Tolkien: Chickens are respectable folk, and well thought of. They never go on any adventures or do anything unexpected. One fine spring day, as the chicken wandered contentedly around the farmyard, clucking and pecking and enjoying herself immensely, there appeared a Wizard and thirteen Dwarves who were in need of a chicken to share in their adventure. Reluctantly she joined their party, and with them crossed the road into the great Unknown, muttering about how rude the Dwarves were to take her away on such short notice, without even giving her time to brush her feathers or fetch her hat.
Netanyahu: He didn't cross the road, you anti-Semite. Stop delegitimizing Israel.
Bashar: It never happened, no such thing can ever happen...
Gingrich: Chickens are invented birds..
Andrew Hussie: Weird time shit
Jack Kerouac: It wanted to blaze a trail through this wide world.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Excerpts From My... →
November 2nd
What the fuck was that noise? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT NOISE?!
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Scientists Find a Pair of Supermassive Black Holes →
Einstein was wrong.
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Five Truths About Our Energy Future →
Technological advances, new discoveries, unexpected economic crises, environmental concerns — all of these factors can skew our expectations about how we’ll be powering our homes, cars and industries tomorrow. So when you listen to the gloomy forecasts from peak-oil theorists or hear the sunnily optimistic scenarios of energy executives, keep this in mind: the future is really, really hard...
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How the SOPA Uprising Proved That Hollywood... →
The central organizing principle of the web—the ability to find something, twist it and take it apart, and then make something new with it—is also not coincidentally one of the central organizing principles of art.
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As long as information circulates, there will always be those who seek to control it, and those who fight to keep it free.
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An open letter to the asshat with no regard.
What was that for?
“Are you fucking crazy?! The fuck, man!?!”
That’s what you said. I just looked back at you as I was crossing the street. On the pedestrian walk. The one that I had every right to be on.
And it was a red light for your lane. By the very situation, I was supposed to cross the street. It had been a red light for enough time for me to look both ways down the...
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