I Talk a Good Game

13 hours ago from bookmarklet

Oh. My God. Yes.

xkcd: Single Ladies

18 hours ago

I graduated high school a decade ago this May. the ring still fits

2 days ago

Walkin’ in Manhattan after midnight…I miss this city.

4 days ago

in nyc, getting dark…

Notes: 135 / 4 days ago from meaghano (originally from superfluidity)

Double positives

meaghano:

superfluidity:

The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah right.”

!!!

Notes: 6 / 1 week ago from bookmarklet

One of my favorite albums ever is on sale for $5. You should go buy it and be blown away.

Amazon.com: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust: Saul Williams: MP3 Downloads

Notes: 10 / 1 week ago from bigworldsmallvictories

bigworldsmallvictories:

the secret.

Too true…

2 weeks ago from bookmarklet

Primordial giant: The star that time forgot - space - 15 February 2010 - New Scientist

Fossil Universes! FOSSIL! UNIVERSES!

Notes: 68 / 4 weeks ago from meaghano (originally from sometimesagreatnotion)

Infinite Jest, page 694

meaghano:

sometimesagreatnotion:

It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millenial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s maybe the vestiges of the Romantic glorification of Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or hip ennui. Maybe it’s the fact that most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on how to be cool, hip - and keep in mind that, for kids and younger people, to be hip and cool is the same as to be admired and accepted and included and so Unalone. Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self. Once we’ve hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young. The U.S. arts are our guide to inclusion. A how-to. We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it’s stuck there, the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentiment and unsophisticated naivete. Sentiment equals nativete on this continent…

…Hal, who’s empty but not dumb, theorizes privately that what passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human (at least as he conceptualizes it) is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool. One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he’s really lonely for: this hideous internal self, incontinent of sentiment and need, that pules and writhes just under the hip empty mask, anhedonia.

- David Foster Wallace

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

…and this is why I need to read this book. Damn.

Notes: 1 / 4 weeks ago

I’ve decided to make myself unhireable in Hollywood

Do I have any friends, or friends of friends, who might be interested in animating a 12-episode web series about the adventures of a young skeptic, his pagan girlfriend, and zombie Richard Dawkins after the Rapture?

Also, hordes of fundamentalist zombies. And its a comedy.

Would also consider doing it as a comic.