December 2009
48 posts
Some People are Toxic, Avoid Them
theessentialman:
“There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on.
Perls proposed that in all...
“The CIA’s new personality quiz will tell you if you are a “daring...”
– Secret Agent Man - GOOD Blog - GOOD
If you want to do the quiz, it’s here
“A letter by the famously reclusive J.D. Salinger to his paramour Janet Eagleson...”
– J.D. Salinger On Raiders Of The Lost Ark - GOOD Blog - GOOD
Socko-ness? Scroll-y? What do you think Salinger meant? Are they words we should all use?
“The Death Of The American Mall (GOOD Blog)
The American shopping mall, that...”
– The Death Of The American Mall - GOOD Blog - GOOD
What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers? →
A very interesting article about something that must be at the back of a lot of peoples minds. “Farmville has become a viral internet trend since its launch as a Facebook application this summer. It has now grown to 70 million users, making it the number one application on the social networking site.” Surprising news. But what does it mean?
“Here’s a good idea being proposed by Michigan Lt. Governor John Cherry:...”
– Superb Idea: Tax Bottled Water and Give Money to Schools - GOOD Blog - GOOD
This sounds like a great idea, but it seems to be that the problem here is that all that money is going to the government that allowed the invasion of plastic bottled water and has also chosen to spend all their budget on...
“for those who have thought themselves out of reading romances but not the need...”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
“I hope I can bring to you bitter accounts of my life from the jaded scope of my...”
– I Guess This is Growing Up: Foreword Part 2?
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“In the supermarket
shopping for shampoo —
suddenly I see...”
– From Bawdy, per verse and irreverent: an immodest anthology of contemporary Antipodean verse by John Knight and Katherine Samuelowicz
Inspiration
Inspiration Not Found
I love this image. As I read it and it gradually explained the nature of inspiration to me, I found my self nodding along and thinking, “Yeah, exactly! Why didn’t I think of that?” but then I realised that it made sense to me because I had already thought about it, but in my subconscious or unconscious mind. I hadn’t thought about it consciously...
kerryingon:
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
- John Burroughs
Exactly my sentiments. Furthermore, I never have enough time to make all the things I want to either.
The Streets/Beatstevie - he’s behind you,...
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“Some people believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this,...”
– The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
“Now, vodka that comes in a pill
Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint...”
– Now, vodka that comes in a pill - Science - Home - The Times of India
Alcohol pills. We are now officially one step closer to producing Soma.
November 2009
34 posts
Twilight profit
Twilight costed $37 million to make, and has grossed $384,997,808 worldwide. That’s a profit of $347,997,808.
Holy shit. that’s a lot of money made from the brain washing of the next generation of teenage girls. And that’s not even factoring in the profit from the merchandise.
Source: Twilight (2008) - Box Office Mojo
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“This is Patriarchal psycho-porn for ‘women of all ages’. Within this...”
– Some terrifying bondage master talking about Twilight
“And this movie is the one that made $140 million bucks in one weekend. Bigger...”
– On Twilight, Captain’s Log - what do you see in him again?
These are exactly my worries about this. More to come from me, just as soon as I get my essay writing back in gear.
“If I bought two doonas, layed down on them with my arms and legs splayed out,...”
– Have you seen the movie Waterworld?
A quote from a ‘serious’ letter to a school.
