Horseshoes and hand grenades.

fer1972: Pulpo a la Gallega by Hugo Horita

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:00:06 -0500

fer1972:

Pulpo a la Gallega by Hugo Horita

crookedindifference: nprfreshair: crookedindifference: Mathema...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:29:24 -0500

nprfreshair:

crookedindifference:

Mathematical modeling of an outbreak of a Zombie invasion

On today’s Fresh Air, Colson Whitehead talks about his zombie novel, Zone One.

Best reblog award goes to nprfreshair

parliamentarypenguin: marrinerkeynes: Nice, I love...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:13:36 -0500

parliamentarypenguin:

marrinerkeynes:

Nice, I love this

OCCUPY CORUSCANT!

bluemeanies: deathbeforedigital: comicsalliance: Superman Fan...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:06:52 -0500

bluemeanies:

deathbeforedigital:

comicsalliance:

Superman Fan Mike Meyer Shares Donated Comics & Collectibles With Children’s Hospital

It didn’t seem like there could be a better ending to the case of Mike Meyer than the return of his vast collection of Superman comic books and collectibles following their alleged theft by a man who pretended to be his friend, but we think you’ll agree this is it. As we reported previously, the comics community rallied in support of Meyer, a 48-year-old lifelong Superman fan who lives on part-time work at McDonald’s and Social Security for a mental disability, by organizing a drive to replace the items that had been so cruelly stolen. With his collection now recovered by police and the alleged thief in jail, Meyer took a cue from the selfless superhero he idolizes by donating to a local children’s hospital the excess items that were donated to him.

STLToday.com reports that six boxes of Superman items were made available to the St. Louis Children’s hospital’s Wednesday bingo game last week, which quadrupled the number of prizes usually available to the facility’s sick and injured kids.

“When you make somebody happy, it does something for you, too,” said Meyer, in the best tradition of the Man of Steel.

Read more at ComicsAlliance.

so happy.

Some days, you just need to be reminded that good things do happen in this crazy, fucked-up world we’ve created.

I find dancing very agreeable.

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:19:54 -0500

I find dancing very agreeable.

stfuconservatives: stonerparty: victorialaine couldn’t have...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:18:12 -0500

stfuconservatives:

stonerparty:

victorialaine

couldn’t have said it better.

My response to every.single.post about “I am the 53% boohoo taxes get a job hippies”

-Jess

I said this to my parents not too long ago. Bad. Fucking. Idea.

hoodoothatvoodoo: Norman Parkinson

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:45:06 -0500

hoodoothatvoodoo:

Norman Parkinson

afternoonsnoozebutton: Oh Rush, you piece of shit.

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:00:05 -0500

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Oh Rush, you piece of shit.

walex: mikerickson: jakke: pepperrae: lawschooled: Questions...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:27:25 -0500

walex:

mikerickson:

jakke:

pepperrae:

lawschooled:

Questions relating to proper conduct may be answered by an independent, non-partisan adviser.

“I wore no ornament save my wedding ring, a small pair of pearl earbobs, and a green velvet ribbon round the stalk of my neck.” Well, my musical is clearly the fanciest.

“Define a competitive equilibrium with taxes.”

Damn. I’m a gay economist and even I wouldn’t go to that musical.

“Good forearm development is necessary to create a championship physique, but forearm strength is just as important.” -Source

This is going to be the most jacked musical ever.

Regain My Composure

Can you guys not read instructions or did you all manage to put your finger down on the first word of the sentence?

“[Irregularity is especially inevitable because so] many different kinds of changes are always buffeting the language from various directions; collisions are inevitable.” -Source

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:03:05 -0500

"I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:08:47 -0500

““I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.””

- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (via thelibraryofminds)

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:00:06 -0500

To My Future Husband:

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:16:37 -0500

searchingfor-peace:

Please be weird and understand my humor. I act so normal around everyone, else but I pray that I won’t have to act socially acceptable with you. I really do hope you find at least an ounce of charm in my quirky, awkward, and down right strange personality. I promise I will in yours.

Relevant to my current situation everything.

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:09:15 -0500

Relevant to my ~~current situation~~ everything.

silas216: I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished,...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:58:12 -0500

silas216:

I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished, but I want to ask you something.

Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?

Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that’s not going to be as easy when you’re 50 as it was when you were 20.

And what happens if you get sick? You say you don’t have health insurance, but since you’re a veteran I assume you have some government-provided health care through the VA system. I know my father, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, still gets most of his medical needs met through the VA, but I don’t know what your situation is. But even if you have access to health care, it doesn’t mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.

Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?

Look, you’re a tough kid. And you have a right to be proud of that. But not everybody is as tough as you, or as strong, or as young. Does pride in what you’ve accomplish mean that you have contempt for anybody who can’t keep up with you? Does it mean that the single mother who can’t work on her feet longer than 50 hours a week doesn’t deserve a good life? Does it mean the older man who struggles with modern technology and can’t seem to keep up with the pace set by younger workers should just go throw himself off a cliff?

And, believe it or not, there are people out there even tougher than you. Why don’t we let them set the bar, instead of you? Are you ready to work 80 hours a week? 100 hours? Can you hold down four jobs? Can you do it when you’re 40? When you’re 50? When you’re 60? Can you do it with arthritis? Can you do it with one arm? Can you do it when you’re being treated for prostate cancer?

And is this really your idea of what life should be like in the greatest country on Earth?

(via Daily Kos: Open Letter to that 53% Guy)

"My entire life has been consumed with waiting just to find your skin."

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:09:13 -0500

“My entire life
has been consumed with waiting
just to find your skin.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

precariousowl: I love you, philadelphia. you are enough.

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:02:48 -0500

precariousowl:

I love you, philadelphia.

you are enough.

Do want.

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:20:20 -0500

Do want.

How I start every new relationship.

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:03:47 -0500

How I start every new relationship.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9)

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:20:22 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9):

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