January 2010
Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
M.I.A. - Bird Flu
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I’m always attracted to people, and then once I get to know them I’m repulsed. Wow, that sounds really awful. But it’s true. Oh well.
I know for a fact that what we felt for each other was as deep and rich as love...
– Tim O’Brien- The Things They Carried (via ra-ta-ta)
Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970
RIP
(via lavenderlines, spaceships, massromantic)
“Mahatma Gandhi on Homosexuality”
Two gay Englishmen came to Gandhi in the 1930s and asked him what he thought of their relationship.
The Mahatma asked some questions and for a short time fell silent.
Then he said, “The greatest gift God gives us is another person to love.”
Placing the hands of each man in the other’s, he quietly and with a smile asked, “Who are we to question God’s choice?”
(via...
Note to self:
Stop apologizing for things that you aren’t actually sorry for, or even remotely responsible for. Okay.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
“So hurry up and run to the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he’ll make war, oh, war, on who you were before
And claim all that has spoiled in your heart”
I haven’t been here in so long that the whole layout of my dashboard has changed. I don’t like it at all. But that isn’t very important.
I had a great two weeks in Costa Rica. I couldn’t possibly describe it all at once, and I might be periodically writing about it. Or I might not. We’ll see how I’m feeling. Suffice it to say that I had some completely new...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Costa Rica
For two full weeks. Be back January 18th. Cheers.