June 2009
75 posts
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Nelson Mandela (via thoseareturkeys and quotewhore) (via aliexplainsitall)
love this quote, but as it turns out its by marianne williamson, not nelson mandela.
The Bulwer-Lytton Contest Award Winners, 2009 →
hotelechozulu:
hangingfire:
entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels
My favorites:
“In a flurry of flame and fur, fangs and wicker, thus ended the world’s first and only hot air baboon ride.”
“I entered the bedroom again, looking for anything the killer might have missed in his obvious attempt to clean the crime scene, when it hit me, the victim hadn’t been...
He is. →
For the folks who Tumbl in Austin, otherwise...
seagull:
An email chain from 8 years ago that some random person posted on their Facebook. Bolded are my favorite parts; italics are mine, too. Rules for living in Austin:
“1. First you must understand that Austin is not Texas, but Austin is in the heart of Texas. The rest of Texas is defined by two zones — the vaguely scary, inbred country regions, and the extremely scary, urban,...
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde (via 52books) (via slaughtered)
“A dog was carrying a bone over a bridge. Looking down at the water under the...”
– Why men cheat — his version - CNN.com (via snickerdoodle) (via seriouslythough)
Watchcapucha:
karenabad:
Dear Capucine,
Happy 5th Birthday! We love you!
Love,
All of us at Vimeo.
Oh my goodness ! This made me smile, and laugh, and cry !! Thank you all SO SO SO much !!! You are the best :-)))
<3 <3 <3
PS : Capucine’s in bed already, I will show it to her first time in the morning tomorrow. She’s going to love it !!
Awww, Happy...
How strongly would you judge me if I said that the...
seriouslythough:
(via thumbwrestlinginbaltimore)
PETA miffed at President Obama's fly 'execution' →
squashed:
(From Politico, not The Onion.)
We were juuusssst talking about this at the office
If the Greek Gods had a FML site →
via thedailywhat
“[The purpose of storytelling is] to portray ordinary objects as they will be...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, quoted by Colum McCann in an editorial about Ulysses in the NYT. My father sent it to me to support his assertion, made often before, that when “we remember a time in the past kindly, nostalgically, even a time we know we experienced as difficult, awkward and unsatisfactory, we may...
tumbledore:
George Strait - “All My Ex’s Live In...
sassygirl:
skysignal:
The Blower’s Daughter...
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Finch, White Oleander. (via pocahaunted) (via grl-afraid) (via dirtyshambles) (via missworld) 