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“The Wind and the Sea” - Paul Laurence Dunbar
I stood by the shore at the death of day ( Read more... ) -
A fine and private place
“But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain-this is nothing beside a life without poetry.” -
Language
One thing you learn in linguistics is that language is always evolving. If enough people favor one definition of a word for enough time, the meaning of that word changes “officially.” This is known as semantic change. Then there are changes in pronunciation and spelling, of course ( Read more... ) -
Wtf autocorrect
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Pebble vs boulder
A comment found on reddit that resonated ( Read more... ) -
In the line of fire
This whole week has been one thing after another. I always hear people talk about mercury being in retrograde during times like this. I don't buy into astrology, but just for kicks decided to check and it's apparently been in retrograde since the 3rd.
Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. -
Nationalism
"Nationalism teaches you to hate people you never met and be proud of shit you didn't do." -
Sunny September days.
Slept in till almost 11. Kinder chocolate for breakfast (one of the major perks of adulthood). Puppy snuggles. Upbeat Frank Turner/Ellliott Smith/A3 mix on the ipod. Prepared my vote-by-mail registration. Started updating my resume. Sitting on my balcony with red bull in hand on a warm sunny September day, feeling a cool onshore breeze. Looking ( Read more... ) -
Eulogy
Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut,
not everyone was born to be a king,
not everyone can be Freddie Mercury,
but everyone can raise their glass and sing.
Well I haven't always been a perfect person,
and I haven't done what mum and dad had dreamed,
but on the day I die, I'll say at least I fucking tried.
That's the only eulogy I need.
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dream
Last night I had a dream that I went on a date with Anthony Bourdain. We were both getting to "that point in our lives" and wanted to have children. But I was all "dude, you're trying to impress me but your knives aren't even sharp enough to cut through this tomato."
Oh, and I ate hot dogs.