February 2011
84 posts
January 2011
83 posts
Why isn’t the media talking about another... →
redguard:
Well, here’s a story that should be getting more attention, but isn’t. In the spring of 2009, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores was shot and killed when a group of Minutemen raided her parents’ home in Arivaca, Arizona hoping to steal drugs and money to fund their vigilante border-policing. The Daily Beast reports (trigger warning):
Early on the morning of May 30, 2009, Raul Flores heard a...
Happiness of Cows Scrapbook: So it turns out I’m... →
williamnein:
So it turns out I’m not as ready as I had hoped I was. But this is a good thing. I’m going to take my time this time. I feel like I’m finally learning to concentrate my dreams and aspirations. This could easily be seen or perceived as procrastination or not taking opportunities due to fear, or…
you do deserve the best william! i miss you friend and i hope all your dreams...
Why HELLO -25 degrees!
today is my first day of my last semester of undergrad! yay! i don’t like that i have to take 18 credits or that it is so frickin cold up here in the north country but i am so grateful that i have been lucky enough to get an education and i hope i use it wisely in the future. that is all. oh yeah, i’m turning 22 tomorrow! thats cool too-hope its not so cold!
“I don’t have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.”
– George Carlin (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to...”
– Courtney Love, NME Magazine (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
