July 2011
excerpt
sitting in a abandoned parking lot and writing is probably not the best idea ever. but sometimes the words just cannot wait. they are all jumbled in your head like a tangled mess of wire, and you just have to get them out before you explode.
before this, i was driving aimlessly around blasting the RENT soundtrack, and screaming along with all the power my vocal chords possess. it doesn’t...
sometimes writing in a fit of feverish insanity is when i produce my best work.
i don’t even know what i’m feeling anymore
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
– Sonya Friedman (via gaywrites)
“At the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via juhhhnet)
Arkansas High School Appoints Co-Valedictorian... →
ryeisenberg:
oneironautical:
goblet-of-fiyar:
galileogst:
A high school student in Arkansas was blocked from receiving sole valedictorian honors this summer, despite earning the highest G.P.A. in her class and receiving only a single B in her four years at McGehee Secondary School. Kymberly Wimberly’s offense? She’s black. School administrators worried that Wimberly’s accomplishment...
“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best...”
– Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)
“No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder, […] The man might have called...”
– O’Reilly slams media for calling Norway killer Christian. Says there has never been a Christian terrorist and it is an attempt of the left to downplay Muslim terrorism. (via blaaargh)
Columbus
The Spanish
European colonizers
Manifest destiny
Slave owners/traders
Idiots who believe in Jesus and...
“I experienced many dangers in Afghanistan. But this is the worst experience I...”
– Hussein Kazemi, a 19 year old from Afghanistan who sought asylum in Norway two years ago, survived the attack in Oslo with bullet wounds in his legs and arms. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
if i could just find one person who understands...
“Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food,...”
– UNICEF, ‘Gender Equality–The Big Picture’, 2007 (via thirdw0rld)
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via atomos)
new wave feminism: 4-year-old hit by drunk driver.... →
radicallyhottoff:
sheelzebub:
[Raquel]Nelson, 30 and African-American, was convicted on the charge this week by six jurors who were not her peers: All were middle-class whites, and none had ever taken a bus in metro Atlanta. In other words, none had ever been in Nelson’s shoes:
They…
“I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts.”
– Andy Warhol (via trulylovely)
i don’t care if i have to live in a cardboard box…never coming back here again after i leave in august
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made, and it can...”
– Nelson Mandela (via squashed)
“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
– Albus Dumbledore (via bookstorecouture)
i. hate. anxiety. attacks.
I'd rather listen to music than talk to people.
why am i not at the HP7 premiere? because i have no friends to go with.
how pathetic.
see, the mind is a fickle thing.
it’s pumping veins of blood between deep lined crevices laced with
neurotic electricity,
buzzing ideas, thoughts, and memories,
a control center spiraling outside predictability,
my mind’s not what it seems to be.
even well oiled machines creak, fall broken and grow weak,
sometimes electric shocks zap incorrectly, and
chemical imbalances...
“The US budget is like a 1st grader playing Oregon Trail. Spend all the money on...”
– Malhavoc430 // Reddit (via mattchew03)
Oh god, I’m dying.
(via custerdiedforyoursins)
LMAOOOOOO
(via celticthistle)
A statement both true AND a reference to my favorite childhood game? Magic.
(via stfuconservatives)
hehehe
Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy... →
almaswithinalmas:
Tomorrow in Salt Lake City, legal scholar and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley will file suit to challenge Utah statutes criminalizing cohabitation and bigamy. The plaintiffs in the suit? Kody Brown and his four wives, stars of the reality show Sister Wives.
Turley is expected to argue for the decriminalization of polygamy by citing Lawrence v. Texas,...
Senate DOMA hearing scheduled →
gaywrites:
The first Senate hearing for a possible repeal of DOMA will be held on July 20.
“Until DOMA’s enactment, the federal government had always honored marriages celebrated in the states,” Freedom to Marry national campaign director Marc Solomon said in a Tuesday statement. “It’s time for Congress to end this gay exception and allow legally married same-sex couples access to the tools...
