"Even oxygen has a sinister side. 'Oxygen is the ultimate toxin,' says Michael Trush, a toxicologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Oxygen combines with food to produce energy, but our bodies also produce oxygen radicals--atoms with an extra electron that damage biomolecules, DNA, proteins, and lipids. 'We are oxidizing all the ( Read more... )

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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Is it admitting defeat to think, hey, maybe I won't ever get the kind of work or career I am hoping for? We all have extraordinary hopes and high expectations for ourselves; I think many of us recognize the Desk Jockey as one of the lowest of all fates. The children of hippies and raised in an age of artificial empowerment, we struggle to convince ( Read more... )

i sustain myself on alcohol, nutella, bisexual curiosity, heterosexual curiosity, sufism, regret, resentment, passive aggression, sloth, lust, pride, not envy or greed, toothpaste, cheap clothes, bruises, sex, black and white postcards, expensive groceries, waste, occasional surprise, and even still, the avoidance of laundry ( Read more... )

i pick you up late at night after work
i said "lady, step inside my Hyundai"
i'm gonna take you up to Glendale
gonna take you for a real good meal
cos when our eyes did meet
girl you know i was packin' heat
ain't no use in wastin' no time gettin' to know each other
cos only you got a thing
that i just got to get with

Hey Dave,

betcha couldn't watch six feet under tonight without crying.

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"...and in a funny way, the [cutting of my hair] has been a liberation from a lot of stupid vanities really, it has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors for me maybe." Yule and I have got something in common ( Read more... )

crybaby is the best movie i have ever seen

kevin, you would love to talk to me right now