December 2010
30 posts
“What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the...”
– Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody (via sandwichspy)
Invisible Stories: The Problem, by Richard Siken →
invisiblestories:
“The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants to paint a bird, needs to, and the problem is why. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after the other, but existentially why bother, what does it solve? Be the tree, solve for bird. What does that mean? It’s a problem of focus,...
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Christmas, by Joel Toledo
Caught by the evening darting into darkness, pursuing stars and fire- flies. How flimsy, how brittle the years. And how they fly by— breaking so many hearts, wrinkling too many hands. And mellowed now the colors, lingering and yellow. This much I know, dull glow on sunlit faces and clever placings of days, those gilded edges of Poinsettias, vivid red and solid green, children waiting in...
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via welovewriters)
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via mlq3)
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Advice to Myself #15
Never over-chill your beer; it kills the yeast. Beer below zero is for people who know how to dance, people who look at your girlfriend with hungry eyes when you’re not there, people who sleepwalk and hack cute little kittens to death, and eat them when they wake. Learn how to do a perfect pour. Delay your gratification: rinse the glass, put it in the fridge, read a few articles or watch a...
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Okay, beer
So I’ve been putting off my beer post until I’ve come up with a large enough sample size to compare. Having just downed a bottle of Franziskaner, though, I think I can name my top three now:
1. Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb: Nice and steady for leisure drinking. Chilled right, the head seems like ice cream. Cloudy and full-bodied. Nice bittersweet tang, banana’s there,...
On Wikileaks →
A world without secrets might be: a world keeping a secret from the rest of the universe. It is a world in solidarity as it struggles against the immensity of the cosmos; a world saying, We are small, and we will all die, but in this small moment that we have, we connected.
fuckyeahexistentialism:
After reading this enlightening post on Zunguzungu about Julian Assange’s philosophy, it’s clear...
“You’re sitting at a small bay window
in an empty café by the sea.
It’s...”
– What the Last Evening Will Be Like, Edward Hirsch (via giancantdance)
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
– John Cage (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Ryan Kennedy on Boxing in/and MMA →
“There is no excuse for a UFC fighter to not know how to properly handle taking a punch, to not be prepared for more than a round of hard fighting, to not know how to approach an opponent who circles you with a flicking jab, to lack the discipline to avoid a fight regressing into a wild slugfest. Yet, still we’re seeing it all the time.”
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“Kindness covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I...”
– Roger Ebert
I will repost this always.
(via tulletulle)
AudioBoot: 6 MacPros and 6 ipads Giveaway for... →
audioboot:
RULES: -MUST like this post -MUST Reblog once (reblogging more than once= disqualification) -MUST Follow me (http://audioboot.tumblr.com/)
- Recommended Blog (http://www.rocktantra.tumblr.com ) -500 notes= 1 Macbook giveaway and 1 ipad giveaway, so for me to give all, must hit at…
Invisible Stories: Try to remember some details →
by Yehuda Amichai
try to remember some details. remember the clothing of the one you love so that on the day of loss you’ll be able to say: last seen wearing such-and-such, brown jacket, white hat. try to remember some details. for they have no face and their soul is hidden and their crying is…
petradactyl: I Have No Enemies: Liu Xiaobo →
ninganing:
It is precisely because of such convictions and personal experience that I firmly believe that China’s political progress will not stop, and I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a future free China. For there is no force that can put an end to the human quest…
On Kairos
“Clearly, the notion of kairos points out that speech exists in time; but more important, it constitutes a prompting toward speaking and a criterion of the value of speech. In short, kairos dictates that what is said must be said at the right time.” (John Poulakos, “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1983)
“A fundamental notion in...
Si Roger Ebert ang Super-kawasakan →
“Every day there are untold millions of comments, texts, and online interactions. Millions. And each one says, I am here and I extend my consciousness to there.”
miss-choi asked: Hey there. I think we've actually met. I was Sigh's classmate in UP Asian Center :)
“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is...”
– Synecdoche, New York
(written and directed by Charlie Kaufman)
Jack Gilbert interview in the Paris Review (I... →
INTERVIEWER: How do you start a poem? GILBERT: There’s no one way. Sometimes I’m walking along the street and I find it there. Sometimes it’s something I’ve been thinking about. Sometimes it’s an apparition. INTERVIEWER: How do you know when you’ve finished one? GILBERT: If I’m writing well it comes to an end with an almost-audible click. When I started out I wouldn’t write a poem until I knew...
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Advice to Myself #14
Find the time to revel in the unfamiliar. Find the words, even if you have to strain. Risk telling something, anything, even if you know it can never be told, not in the way it deserves to be told. Know that nothing can ever be told in the way it deserves to be told. Know that failing is the only way to do.
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Not Easily, by Jack Gilbert
When we get beyond beauty and pleasure, to the other side of the heart (but short of the spirit), we are confused about what to do next. It is too easy to say arriving is enough. To pretend the music of the mountain needs only to be heard. That the dance is known by the dancing, and the lasagne is realized by eating it. Not in this place on the other side of desire. We can swim in the...
Statement of Justice Sec. de Lima on the SC's... →
“The voting by the members of the Court on political questions, namely, on actions of the Aquino Administration against the past administration, readily shows that the lines which now divide decision-making in the Court are principally political and no longer doctrinal. This is unfortunate.”
“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go...”
– — Stephen Chbosky (via mlq3)
Kung nabasa ko ang librong ito nu’ng trese anyos ako, malamang binago niya ang buhay ko. Kung trese anyos ka, bale, humanap ka na ng kopya ng The Perks of Being a Wallflower ni Stephen Chbosky. Astig ‘yun, ‘tol.
Believeland: A proud city forgets "The Player Who... →
“There is a burly, angry man with a Chief Wahoo tattoo on the inside of his left forearm, and he knows I work for ESPN. That makes me the devil. We are standing inside the Cleveland Cavaliers locker room not long after their first game without LeBron James. The guy’s name is Scott Raab, and besides being a native Clevelander, he’s also one of America’s best writers. His...