May 2012
2 posts
moonshine
noun.
empty talk. nonsense.
April 2012
2 posts
life
Something like ten months ago I stood in a small forest of trees overrun by screaming crickets. It was reaching midnight, my senses were sharp, and I was unstrung to the point of what felt like lunacy. The only answer then, as ever when things got intense, was to stand alone in a dark place. Nothing happened; no wild animal ate or attacked me (unfortunately, I thought, at the time), and in the...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Who... →
Mr. Griffin unraveled an elaborate fraud scheme in four articles that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished local reporting at age 29.
December 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
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July 2011
3 posts
May 2011
1 post
moonbike: “Of bodhisattvas there were thirty-two... →
moonbike:
“Of bodhisattvas there were thirty-two thousand, great spiritual heroes who were universally acclaimed. They were dedicated through the penetrating activity of their great superknowledges and were sustained by the grace of the Buddha. Guardians of the city of Dharma, they upheld the true…
April 2011
4 posts
March 2011
8 posts
The Real Man →
distorte:
(I wrote this)
Epic Magazine: Carl Cat Takes a Deep Long Look In... →
epic:
Epic Magazine: Carl Cat Takes a Deep Long Look In... →
epic:
“Fuck this!” screamed Carl Cat as he flung a half-eaten container of cat chow across the room. He launched himself off the couch and on to the windowsill, where he peered meekly outside. The street was populated, something rare when the winter chill bit as hard as it did mid-February. The sun beat down weakly on the passersby, struggling to penetrate the filthy frozen air surrounding...
brittanica
rasa, (Sanskrit:: “essence,” “taste,” or “flavour,” literally, “sap” or “juice”) in Sanskrit literature, the concept of aesthetic flavour, or an essential element of any work of art that can only be suggested, not described. It is a kind of contemplative abstraction in which the inwardness of human feelings suffuses the surrounding world of embodied forms.
The theory of rasa is attributed to...
sun burn
I just wrote and deleted a post that made me want to gag. A summary would read something like this:
The girl had ambition and creativity once, before she learned how to be less-uptight. Now people think she’s grounded, and some think she’s enlightened (HAHA!) but she’s actually just missing her vital life force. What others perceive as openness is actually laziness. She keeps...
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
looselybound:
Napoleon: We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
October 2010
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July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
3 posts
Psychology of Power and Weakness: American vs.... →
Two centuries later, Americans and Europeans have traded places — and perspectives. Partly this is because in those 200 years, but especially in recent decades, the power equation has shifted dramatically: When the United States was weak, it practiced the strategies of indirection, the strategies of weakness; now that the United States is powerful, it behaves as powerful nations do. When the...
May 2010
3 posts
from Castiglione's The Courtier
“In these sorts therefore may beauty be coveted; the general name wherof may be applied to all things, either natural or artificial, that are framed in good proportion and due temper, as their nature beareth. But speaking of the beauty that we mean, which is only it that appeareth in bodies, and especially in the face of man, and moveth this fervent coveting which we call love, we will term...
Epic Magazine: Dear God, by FriggenExplosions. →
Dear God,
Let me cut straight to the point. I’m not going to give you another round of ego boosting praise, I want to tell you that I’m not comfortable with the way you’ve been running things lately. It’s almost like you’re not there at all. I mean, some of the things you’re letting us get away…
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
5 posts
Watch“sexual intercourse is a potential treatment for…hiccups”
February 2010
3 posts
“Wipe yourself with rocks.”
Elena, on trail-peeing
Me: “I’m spending Valentine’s day with Faulkner.”
Abby: “I’m sure that’ll help your perception of reality.”
January 2010
24 posts
