"What more is nationalism than new wine in the old bottles of tribalism"

-Arnold Toynbee

I just saw a crazy, huge ball of light fall from the sky at a perfect 90 degree angle about 200 yards or so away from the highway next to my house. It was definitely not a shooting star (too big and too slow) and it was definitely not a plane. I don't even know how to begin to describe it. Whatever it was - it was 1) for sure in the atmosphere, ( Read more... )

are the ones that don't sing in the morning.

Both elbows on the table, I covered my face with my palms. Inside that darkness I saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it.

I want to kill my social persona and act like I think, but I can't because that would require true self-confidence.

Words cannot describe how much I love this guy.


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The Good: One of my best friends since 5th grade, Mr. Evan Delaney Sylvester won. fucking. Wheel of Fortune and is taking me to Greece. $12,000 and trips to Costa Rica and Greece. What a badass. Evan is just good at winning things. I was his doubles tennis partner all through high school, the guy has more passion than 100 dudes combined. I can ( Read more... )

The secret of drunkenness is that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I hung out with Owen Pallet last night(think Arcade Fire/Final Fantasy) and he was kind of a douche and had horrible taste in music. But he's a god with a violin, so I forgive him.

/gloat

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