October 2011
PIZZA FACE
Thanks to Todd purchasing NY pizza (holy moly it’s HUGE!), I can happily enjoy the rest of my Friday evening watching Mad Men on the Netflix. C’est la vie.
September 2011
“While math was like a magnificent imaginary building for Tengo, literature was a vast magical forest. Math stretched infinitely upward toward the heavens, but stories spread out before him, their sturdy roots stretching deep into the earth. In this forest there were no maps, no doorways. As Tengo got older, the forest of story began to exert an even stronger pull on his heart than the world of math. Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape—as soon as he closed the book, he had to come back to the real world. But at some point he noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of math. Why was that? After much thought, he reached a conclusion. No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that suggestion in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.”
—Haruki Murakami; 1Q84, excerpt from The New Yorker (via nekroterrorist)
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
—William Gibson (via adjectival)
You support gay rights? Are you gay?
YOU SUPPORT ANIMAL RIGHTS .ARE YOU AN ANIMAL?
“I’m on this new diet. Well, I don’t eat anything and when I feel like I’m about to faint I eat a cube of cheese. I’m just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”
— Emily (played by Emily Blunt), The Devil Wears Prada (via thefilmfatale)
- get homework out of backpack
- reward self with 30 minutes of internet
i’m sort of more like
- type name
- reward self with hours of internet
30 minutes??? You deserve more than that sheesh.
“Enlightenment is always accidental. That does not mean that you have not to try for it, but your trying is not going to bring it. Your effort is not going to achieve it. But making the effort, searching in all directions in every possible way, some day it happens — not because of your efforts but because of your intense urge, a tremendous intensity like a flame within you. But it is always accidental; you cannot say, “It happened because I did that.” Otherwise, things would have been very simple.”
—Osho (via lazyyogi)
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