February 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
4 posts
“I always take more pleasure in liking something than in disliking something....”
– swissmiss | Ignore haters.
psychologically speaking: “He’s been building that... →
psychotherapy:
“He’s been building that boat for seven years that I know of… Every time he gets it nearly finished he changes it and starts over again. I think he’s nuts. Seven years on a boat.”
Doc was sitting on the ground pulling off his rubber boots. “You don’t understand,” he said gently. “Henri loves…
September 2011
7 posts
2 tags
“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”
– Richard Bach (via theimpossiblecool)
1 tag
Coke Talk: Custom Coke Talk Wedding Vows →
coketalk:
The other day, a couple wrote in to Dear Coke Talk asking me to assist them in writing their wedding vows.
That shit was too charming to pass up, so we traded a few emails, and they turned out to be cool as fuck, squishy in love, and completely serious about having a lunatic stranger from the…
The thing that’s tough/excellent about when people do the thing that’s...
August 2011
9 posts
1 tag
“A music fan that doesn’t have it in them to find new music anymore is like...”
– Pitchfork: 5-10-15-20: Okkervil River’s Will Sheff
This whole thing could’ve been plucked right from my sad little head, but this part, this part totally, and it’s something really hard for me right now.
4 tags
“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our...”
– Quote from Jim Coudal’s CreativeMornings/Chicago talk.
via SwissMiss
Embracing the zeroes →
bobulate:
Sam Anderson on the art of seeing, or what a physical almanac can teach us about our physical selves under the crush of nonphysical information on the Internet:
We need to remember the value of nothing. It’s like breathing: you can’t inhale all day. We need to learn to make peace with the information we don’t know, to embrace the zeroes, to relearn the pleasures of hunger, need,...
June 2011
8 posts
May 2011
13 posts
Researchers Identify DNA Region Linked to... →
psychotherapy:
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and King’s College London have independently identified DNA on chromosome 3 that appears to be related to depression.
Major depression affects approximately 20 percent of people at some point during their lives, and family studies have long suggested that depression risk is influenced by genetics. The new...
“A sunflower seed and a solar system are the same thing; they both are whole...”
– Adam Smith, knifemaker. (via viafrank)
“Twain never said it. The quote is actually ‘I have never killed any one, but I...”
– Tweeting Twain Quotes That Never Were, regarding the recently popular pseudo-Twain quote “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” (via nickdouglas)
Oops. I guess I helped nudge that particular meme along.
April 2011
10 posts
