December 2009
35 posts
Overstimulated →
by xkcd
… *ahem*
It’s fucking great to be alive, ladies and gentlemen, and if you do not...
– Frank Zappa
“The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of one’s existence- the characteristic mode of one’s actions- is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive because style describes the doing.”
Amanda expounded upon this at some length. ”The point is this,” she said eventually....
It is a luxury to be understood.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holy Baboon! A 'Mystical' Moment In Africa →
by Robert Krulwich for NPR
Download Marco Benevento's "Me Not Me" →
or rather, buy it, if you are able at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001O2ZVTS/ref=s9_simp_gw_s1_p15_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0AEBRQNCF2D4CMQR9CK7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=50784
Either way, whatever kind of music you’re into, you need this artfully crafted album; it’s reminiscent of what it sounds like if clouds had...
Bout time to get domestic on that ass...
Utterly fantastic CheesecakeBrownieCupcakes
(Instead of oil, I just use an equalivalent amount of butter; much more gluttonously tasty that way. [Go ahead and do it, you know you want to.])
SERVES 12 (change servings and units)
Ingredients:
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
3 tablespoons soft butter
2 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
...
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
– Mark Twain
In Heaven, everything is fine...
So here I am, lying in bed, eating melted frango mints drizzled on vanilla ice cream next to my fantastically brilliant, sexy boyfriend as he faintly breathes subtle rhythms in his sleep, and it makes me wonder: how does life get any better than this?
It briefly crossed my mind when I was in Jamaica that nothing I could ever do again would match that light, airy, easy feeling that commandeered my...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
– Marianne Williamson [via johannal] (via quote-book)