ub.

[via ahmet ozcan]

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:52 -0500

[via ahmet ozcan]

spaceships: crashinglybeautiful: cowgirlblues: story before...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:09:23 -0500

spaceships:

crashinglybeautiful: cowgirlblues: story before the sleep (via ahmet ozcan)

I picked up Adam Haslett’s book of short stories, You Are Not A Stranger Here, (published when...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:30:00 -0500

I picked up Adam Haslett’s book of short stories, You Are Not A Stranger Here, (published when he was a third year law student, when I was a third year law student I was writing emails and on a good day a journal entry on Naseeb but never, ever anything more than that) at a used bookstore down the street from our house and I’m two stories in, starting my third now, and wow. Wow. They’re really good. One just made me cry.

robot-heart: we love typography: upscale typography Wish I...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:43:47 -0500

robot-heart:

we love typography: upscale typography

Wish I knew what this said or who the artist was.

"Because, in the end, no one will ever give a shit who has kept shit ‘real’ except the two or three..."

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:27:00 -0500

“

Because, in the end, no one will ever give a shit who has kept shit ‘real’ except the two or three people, sitting in their apartments, bitter and self-devouring, who take it upon themselves to wonder about such things. The keeping real of shit matters to some people, but it does not matter to me. It’s fashion, and I don’t like fashion, because fashion does not matter.

What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand. What matters is that the Flaming Lips’s new album is ravishing and I’ve listened to it a thousand times already, sometimes for days on end, and it enriches me and makes me want to save people. What matters is that it will stand forever, long after any narrow-hearted curmudgeons have forgotten their appearance on goddamn 90210. What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it. What matters is that you want to see and make and do, on as grand a scale as you want, regardless of what the tiny voices of tiny people say. Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.

”

- Dave Eggers (via tom armitage) (via unicornology) (via yesterdayifeltlikegod)

I seem to be facing this same conflict within myself, to do good work, something meaningful, and long lasting. The idea of purpose.

Eggers gets that.

(via syeda)

Been thinking about this whole stop being such a critic thing a lot lately.

[via glynnis] For Sehla, who I think might not even know this...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:13:10 -0500

[via glynnis]

For Sehla, who I think might not even know this tumblr exists.

In the last few days

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:27:22 -0500

baingan, lobia, mucver, afghani rice, parathas, aloo kababs. Now what?

Photo

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:12:13 -0500

December 9, 2009. These days, I don’t feel like doing anything but cooking. I don’t know what this...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:08:00 -0500

December 9, 2009. These days, I don’t feel like doing anything but cooking. I don’t know what this is about - I can only guess that maybe it’s because recipes are things I can actually start and finish - there’s no beating myself up for leaving them out of boredom or irritation halfway through, like everything else right now.

Bah.

In.

Funk.

Help.

wannablessedbereturns: I also find cats on roombas quite zen.

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:23:33 -0500

wannablessedbereturns:

I also find cats on roombas quite zen.

syeda: ub14: … the day before. I love this so much. I can’t...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:41:06 -0500

syeda:

ub14:

… the day before.

I love this so much. I can’t wait for this for me!

You’re beautiful.

aw, thanks, syeda. it was all very surreal but very fun too - and now i have 7000 pictures (yes, really) to go thru - the people (inlaws and parents) want what they want!

real? fake? spaceships: davidmanque: In 1838 the 29-year old...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:42:24 -0500

real? fake?

spaceships:

davidmanque:

In 1838 the 29-year old Charles Darwin wrote the following in his journal. It is a chart comparing marriage (which he was considering) to non-marriage.

Transcription:

This is the question
Marry

Children — (if it Please God) — Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, — object to be beloved & played with. — —better than a dog anyhow. — Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chit-chat. — These things good for one’s health. — ~~Forced to visit & receive relations~~ but terrible loss of time. —
W My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. — No, no won’t do. — Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. — Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps — Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro’ St.

Marry — Marry — Marry Q.E.D.

Not Marry

No children, (no second life), no one to care for one in old age.— What is the use of working ‘in’ without sympathy from near & dear friends—who are near & dear friends to the old, except relatives

Freedom to go where one liked — choice of Society & little of it. — Conversation of clever men at clubs — Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. — to have the expense & anxiety of children — perhaps quarelling — Loss of time. — cannot read in the Evenings — fatness & idleness — Anxiety & responsibility — less money for books &c — if many children forced to gain one’s bread. — (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much)

Perhaps my wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool —

Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood on January 29, 1839.

“Better than a dog anyhow.” Nice.

Quarrel

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:12:32 -0500

We quarreled
Alone I
turned away

from her dear
face then I
feared death

— Grace Paley

(1922 - 2007)

robot-heart: seagull:myownmelt: anniebgood: Your Ex-Lover Is...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:59:55 -0500

robot-heart:

seagull:myownmelt: anniebgood:

Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Stars

It’s nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn’t choose
I’ll write you a postcard, I’ll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love.

in 1854, henry david thoreau said that most people “lead lives of quiet desperation.”

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:47:53 -0500

loveyourcrookedneighbor:

today that is no longer true. thanks to blogs, facebook, twitter, & reality television, our desperation just keeps getting louder.
-defective yeti

i lol’d.

creativeinspiration: csebastian: Things That Inspire: A...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:31:56 -0500

creativeinspiration:

csebastian:

Things That Inspire: A Kitchen Post

Love this. Meals should always be eaten in such comfort.

The outcome of spending an evening with my family of doctors

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:00 -0500

S, just tell them sending the kids to the best schools to have the best life for them is your husband’s responsibility, not yours. :) Then ask them whether they have found a wealthy one for you yet.

syeda:

I’m going to get my bachelor’s degree in English and then go to grad school.

I’m going to get my master’s in English and be poor.

I’m going to get my Ph.D in English and then make less than 50K a year, teaching at a mediocre or less than mediocre university in the middle of no where, and be poor.

I probably won’t get into a great grad school because I’m not a genius with a stellar GPA or GRE score, and it is extremely competitive.

I am not good at math or science so I can’t do anything of that sort.

I wish that the things I loved weren’t so USELESS when it comes to practicality.

I told her that money doesn’t matter because as long as I do what I love I’ll be happy, but she told me, you say that now, but once you settle down, and have kids, and you want to send them to the best schools for the best life for them, you’re going to feel differently.

Strange.

"As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering.And..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:07:47 -0500

“As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering.
And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything”

- - President Obama, Obama to Robots: I’m Watching You | Gizmodo

(via killallhumans)

syeda: Prague

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:07:23 -0500

syeda:

Prague

My inspiring, amazingly talented friend Nadia designed this for...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0500

My inspiring, amazingly talented friend Nadia designed this for us. I liked it a lot, but it turns out K. didn’t, which I guess makes it okay that he never saw it being used anywhere - damn spotlights in our faces all night.