February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
9 posts
Heartbreak opens onto the sunrise
For even breaking is opening
And I am...
– from Pariah. made me sob and smile. go see this film.
Daughters of Dilla: from How Mavis Staples Healed... →
caitsmeissner:
A clip from the poem, excerpted for the book page, here. Thanks ladies!
daughtersofdilla:
by Caits Meissner
Under headphones, Mavis Staples crawls into the hurting parts. She is awkward, but persistent, squeezing her round maternal body into the tiny cracks. Shimmies up the pipe of my heart. Stomps her feet against the wound. Rolls her eyes. Says, toughen up, mama, this...
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
2 posts
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is...
– Rabindranath Tagore
October 2011
4 posts
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Drug in Magic Mushrooms Linked to Long-Lasting... →
September 2011
8 posts
The body is neither - while also being both - the private or the public, self or...
– Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (via breastportraitproject)
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deleteyourself:
The NSKYC camera took a 48 hour timelapse of hurricane Irene. The bottom bar is the average color of the sky at that frame.
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August 2011
5 posts
The Times Kills Bushwick For The Rest Of Us:... →
haha. i knew this was going to happen!
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kateoplis: S&P downgrades US debt to AA+, the... →
kateoplis:
So, who are the last countries remaining in the Triple-A Club?
1. Australia
2. Canada
3. Denmark
4. Germany
5. Holland
6. Norway
7. Singapore
8. Sweden
9. Switzerland
At risk of losing AAA Rating:
1. Austria
2. Finland
3. France
4. United…
July 2011
11 posts
The magic button — Make Everything OK →
dpstyles:
“Among the hottest new companies— Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon, Foursquare—none, as Kara Swisher reported in the blog All Things Digital, has a female director on its board.”
—
Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
… criticism about female board members aside, reading this this took me by surprise. I believe it’s our first time...
: Birthdays are so weird. Facebook has made them... →
caitsmeissner:
Birthdays are so weird. Facebook has made them weirder. Suddenly, everybody in the world, except a handful of your closest friends, have left you extravagant messages. A one line text arrives from those you have gushed over on their day. As an over zealous friend celebrator, its a disconnect that…
Love. I wish I had the words to write my life like this.
Rama Bijapurkar: The Whole Six Yards for Forbes... →
Another large culture class is the rapidly prospering small business man — shop owner, contractor, furniture maker, tailoring establishment owner. He continues to transact in the vernacular with his family, vendors and staff but manages reasonable English with his customers who he needs to SMS; he eschews ‘costly’ big shops and big brands, and is a big fan of the ‘imported’ label. This label...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
7 posts
super love this song…on repeat