the short list

Photo

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:50:48 -0500

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in..."

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:55:32 -0500

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

- ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893

Cake vs. Pie via www.nataliedee.com

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:56:49 -0500

Cake vs. Pie via www.nataliedee.com

Dragonfly!

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:55:58 -0500

Dragonfly!

Photo

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:30:20 -0600

Yarn. yum.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:01:28 -0600

Yarn. yum.

Save lives, use proper punctuation.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:06:58 -0600

Save lives, use proper punctuation.

"Stop trying so hard to be retro."

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:35:10 -0600

“Stop trying so hard to be retro.”

Virtual Excuse Ball

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:43 -0600

Virtual Excuse Ball:

I prefer the kryptonite excuse personally.

They Might Be Giants: “Meet the Elements” (BB Video)...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:17:24 -0500

They Might Be Giants: “Meet the Elements” (BB Video) (via boingboingvideo)

shawnblog: sarahchristine: (via gds923)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:33:54 -0500

shawnblog:

sarahchristine:

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"Of course they say that! Of course they talk about welfare mothers and drug addicts and lazy people,..."

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:28:37 -0500

“Of course they say that! Of course they talk about welfare mothers and drug addicts and lazy people, because how could you SLEEP at night knowing that there’s a family of four who is struggling to put dinner on the table because their father, a miner, got cancer and is bankrupt from the medical bills. How could you SLEEP at night thinking of those children?”

- My mom’s outburst to my staunchly Republican grandfather about why socialized medicine is important. (via derbygirl/ katoleary/ lindsayneedscoffee)

Truly, the legacy of Ronald Reagan – dehumanizing those in need so thoroughly that we are able strip away their basic human rights without the crushing moral weight of knowing that we have chosen to let innocent men and women die. Ingenious though, as it plays on Americans’ greatest hopes and fears - the hope that they’ll one day be wealthy enough to benefit from policies such as a flat tax, corporate welfare, estate tax, private schools, private healthcare… and the fear that that creates these archetypes – the “welfare queens” and drug addicts that they could never become, that no matter how bad things get, their mothers, their sisters, their friends, themselves, they will never end up like that.

But no one wakes up one morning as a drug fiend, shifting hopelessly through the streets in tattered rags and matted hair. Those drug addicts we’re all so quick to dismiss as “not like us” were exactly like us. At some point the people close to them looked on with denial - this was their son, friend, student, father – this was a human being, not one of those demons… until one day when he/she wasn’t anymore, when they no longer resembled a person but instead a thing that we can watch die in front of us and are still able sleep at night.

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Excuses of a Four Year Old

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:23:41 -0500

Me: Little E, time to get up and get ready to leave for school.
Little E: I can't!
Me: Why can't you?
Little E: *snuggles under her blankets some more then peaks her head out and smiles*
Little E: Because the covers - they've got me!

I miss seeing crazy carnival sideshows. —darwin continued...

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:05:21 -0500

I miss seeing crazy carnival sideshows.

—darwin continued (via maody)

Gary Go - Wonderful

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:21:52 -0500

Gary Go - Wonderful

Natalie Dee - Gauge: it’s for wussies

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:20:53 -0500

Natalie Dee - Gauge: it’s for wussies

Wrong bus: Married To The Sea - ARCHIVE: Jul 2009

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:40:33 -0500

Wrong bus: Married To The Sea - ARCHIVE: Jul 2009

"amb: let’s make a coloring book amb: and then sue kids for unauthorized derivative works"

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:06:00 -0500

“amb: let’s make a coloring book
amb: and then sue kids for unauthorized derivative works”

- QDB: Quote #890929

I totally made a goatse pie. Inspiration (& link to...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:48 -0500

I totally made a goatse pie. Inspiration (& link to explination if you don’t know what goatse is) can be found here.

I lost the commenting thing

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:22:42 -0500

…by changing my theme. Sorry folks. It’s not that I don’t want your comments because I really really do - but I can’t customize this theme to put the Disqus code back. It’s a sad day (although I love this theme). I might tire of the silence.