these vagabond shoes

walkwhilereading: Ernest Hemingway passport photo before he...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:33 -0600

walkwhilereading:

Ernest Hemingway passport photo before he became well Ernest Hemingway. 1920’s. [via]

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if it has to do with hemingway, bears, or german soldiers, i’m in. which means tonight has been my NIGHT on tumblr.

ljm: (via blackandwtf)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:41:48 -0600

ljm:

(via blackandwtf)

"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion —..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:39 -0600

““Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion. And talk about a lifestyle choice — that is absolutely a choice… It’s a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else…””

- Jon Stewart (via adayinboston) (via jesseboy) (via camiwillknow) (via gunstreetgirl) (via notesfromundervault) (via redorangeorangeonred) (via ljm)

dailybunny: Via laughing so hard. bet it takes trent a week to...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:01 -0600

dailybunny:

Via

laughing so hard. bet it takes trent a week to get lolita doing this with the new cod coming out next week.

shit, guys

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:36:48 -0600

someone, QUICK, make a blog. or, or, or a facebook page. about plants. and meitosis. so that i will STUDY. not just watch youtube videos of thumbelina.

PLEASE. THIS IS URGENT. AND REAL.

i really hope that wherever my future takes me it includes a town with a bar with a lot of wooden...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:40:46 -0600

i really hope that wherever my future takes me it includes a town with a bar with a lot of wooden stuff and $1 pbr nights. this is actually a requirement.

azspot: Gendering Halloween Costumes

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:16:00 -0500

azspot:

Gendering Halloween Costumes

it’s 1am, and i realize i am going to be tired tomorrow no...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:14:07 -0500

it’s 1am, and i realize i am going to be tired tomorrow no matter what. so i’m taking time to tumbl. school is driving me fucking crazy—a lotly because i put things off, also there is just MUCHO homework due this semester. and i don’t want to complain about this because it’s entirely optional and probably long-term beneficial.

but, i will say that i really, really, really, really, really miss the mountains.

tonight the horsemen went to see ‘this is it.’ it...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:04:27 -0500

tonight the horsemen went to see ‘this is it.’ it was a really great movie—lots of dancing, funny, michael being super humble and human and great to his crew. he really GOT performing, ya know? and it just seems to get lost to these dancey, fun songs. when i’m moving around the living room to ‘off the wall’ on vinyl, i forget he innovated this. that there is a huge bunch of kick ass dance moves that define that album. it also makes it even more sad that the ‘this is it’ tour never got to actually happen, but it made the experience of these songs a little more full.

this one, working day and night, is one of my goddamn favorites. and i love the bass breakdown and that FUNK. aaahhh, i can’t get enough.

"To caged mice and rats: “I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn’t free out here. All the..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:27 -0500

“To caged mice and rats: “I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn’t free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. I can’t even give you hope that it will be different someday — that they’ll come out, and forget death, and lose their technology’s elaborate terror, and stop using every other form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men down to a tolerable level — and be like you instead, simply here, simply alive…””

- Gravty’s Rainbow

Let me be honest in saying I could devote an entire tumblr to just this book.

(via starcharooski)

Pynchon, rascal that he is, is working his way into my favorite authors.

This fall Trent and I have kinda traded favorite authors. I finally got him to read some Hemingway, and I tried some Pynchon on for size. Magic on both ends.

printedandbound: Dark things I’m about to enjoy. oh, fuck...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:26:20 -0500

printedandbound:

Dark things I’m about to enjoy.

oh, fuck yeah!

today i accidentally listened to AP radio news twice in a row. i came home and checked three...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:00 -0500

today i accidentally listened to AP radio news twice in a row. i came home and checked three different news websites. it was all the same headlines. one of the main goals of news-editorial journalism is to stay objective, keep things neutral. it is the one, single reason i will never be a good journalist. i can’t even write a buzz article about a restaurant without falling in love with the owner’s story and trying to get everyone i know to go there. but how these writers compose their word limit about 100 people dying by one car-bomb, and handgun sales and homicides up without pleading, without begging for some kind of reaction, and keep their own hearts out of it, i will never understand. when wpgu played the news, there was boppy music behind it, the girl read it like an announcement for a high school dance. it is no surprise to me that people think of americans as delusional. ignorant. this is a muted background to our drive to the bank, to class, to lunch with friends.

"Get the memo I’m cutting the strings Geppetto Shuffle the cards and let’s argue Rooted..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:04 -0500

“Get the memo I’m cutting the strings Geppetto
Shuffle the cards and let’s argue
Rooted in between the computer games and cartoons
Stop it, watch us all get lost
Between God and a shot of scotch
Let’s get fly”

- Get Fly, Atmosphere

CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG TODAY.

maggiellen: meezardra: appleonastick: aworldofwant:bbwprincess...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:27:01 -0500

maggiellen:

meezardra:

appleonastick:

aworldofwant:bbwprincess | loki1181 | sockie.deviantart.com

So, I, like, really want to talk about this. because, FUCK YEAH! i mean, THANK YOU. i think this particular image is kinda kitchy and hilarious, but the overall thought is something i dig.

I’m really sick of living in a world, in a gender, where it is better to be politically void, unmotivated, and unsensible than it is to be fat. like being overweight is THE WORST thing that could happen to some girls i know. THE WORST. and when you go for that second portion, “oh, i’m such a fatass” is always exclaimed, like it’s bad. “oh, i’m such an unscrupulous money-grubber.” “oh, there’s starving kids somewhere in the world, i’m wasting resources” no, it’s “my body is not what society has told me is beautiful, and it makes me want to be mean.”

LISTEN: BEING FAT IS NOT SOMETHING TO FEEL BADLY ABOUT OR MAKE FUN OF. put your health first, but your body is the way your body is, and do not let anyone make you feel badly about that.

this bothers me so deeply. it makes me belligerently angry. it’s selfish, and cheap, and shallow. as far as feminism has come, i hope the elimination of ‘fat talk’ and the broadening of the concept of beautiful is next.

end fat manifesto, part 1.

nabokov said that reading dostoevsky was like making love to a chair. i mean, i’m not cool...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:12:55 -0500

nabokov said that reading dostoevsky was like making love to a chair. i mean, i’m not cool enough to suggest dostoevsky’s small potatoes. but i will say high five nabokov.

"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up … Each of us must find our..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:23:35 -0500

“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up … Each of us must find our work and do it. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming.”

- Audre Lorde (via azspot)

audre lorde is pretty much my life inspiration

i will always approach fall like it is my first ever. i will...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:02:14 -0500

i will always approach fall like it is my first ever. i will stomp around in boots, swirling leaves around me, and take pictures of yellow leaves on gray skies like i have lived in antarctica my whole life and never seen a tree’s season cycle, as if my hard drive were not filled with a file from every autumn i have seen.

the fact that these giant leaves grow from sunshine and the nutrients from dead trees before them fills me with a christmas day excitement. and then when the days get shorter, they turn bright and die away, melting into dirt to fuel next year’s plants. this cycle brings me comfort for the future, for what lies ahead, and everything else about this sometimes all too dreary world.

How do people even come up with these?!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:07 -0500

strangeanduntrue:

txtsfrmlstnght:

(516): Thank God they found balloon boy, I was afraid that Michael Jackson was ordering take out from heaven.

fuck you to whoever thought that was an okay text. FUCK YOU

peanut buttuh

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:22:07 -0500

lauraloowho:

whenever i tell people i’m a vegetarian, there is always the what do you eat? well, people, lots and lots of peanut butter. almost everyday. peaunut butter toast, peanut butter sandwich, peanut butter bagel, peanut butter ice cream, trail mix with peanuts. delicious. keep it coming. crunchy, creamy, natural, with honey, berries, jelly, apples, bananas—you name it, i’ll have one.

YES! totally dig this. but what’s funny, guys, is that i HATED peanut butter as a tot. now i always leave the house with a sense that i might smell like peanut butter. and then when we learned about peanuts in plants class and how they’re one of the most nutritious, world-feeding plants, i felt somehow completed and reaffirmed.

and when people ask me what do you eat? i like to say celery and sorghum. freaks a fucka out.

umm, so i guess you can tell i bought a mac today. ibought a mac...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:59:34 -0500

umm, so i guess you can tell i bought a mac today. ibought a mac and am learning to incorporate it into my ilife without doing too much iprocrastinating because i don’t wanna ifail out of the university of illinois. my imom would ifucking kill me. i’ll stop soon, but not tonight. tonight i’m just gonna iphotobooth myself, ice cube, pink headphones, and my transformers blankets, and my very asleep boyfriend. leave this post knowing this about me: i strive on my own lameness, i have a 12-year-old boy’s dream room, and i like my new computer.