May 2013
58 posts
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via oppium)
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What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the 2010... →
sinidentidades:
“It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently, the workers were tracking the gunk inside on their boots. Griffin, as chief cook and maid,...
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Watchdarthdream:
Leslie Knope’s Dead Accurate Slam Poetry Joke.
It’s Funny Because It’s True.
12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things →
nevver:
box tent : the plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes
jamais vu : that feeling of seeing something for the first time, even though there’s nothing new about it
paresthesia : that tingling sensation when your foot falls asleep
grawlix : the string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (“$%@!”)
caruncula : the small,...
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Ebullient Efflorescence: Fairy tales are NOT all... →
seananmcguire:
I re-blogged a picture of a little girl, dressed as Tiana, hugging the face actress who plays Tiana at one of the Disney Parks, and noted that everyone should have their princess. And a few people have now contacted me basically going “no, only straight white people can have…
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via milkthistles)
Fuck Yeah Slam Poems!: Slam Poets and Spoken word... →
unrestrained-inkslinger:
azachofalltrades:
fuckyeahslampoems:
Hey Fuck Yeah Slam Poem Fans! Looking for more interesting poetry/spoken word/slam/poets to follow? Here is a (large) sampling of some of the folks we follow:
Lauren Zuniga http://laurenzuni.tumblr.com/
Andrea Gibson http://andrewgibby.tumblr.com/
Sierra DeMulder http://sierrademulder.tumblr.com/
Mike...
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I like you. I really do. I like so many of the people I’ve met here. Keep it coming and keep on truck’n.
fasterfood:
half of me wants to be a really physically active person but the other half of me is like “nah son” and how can I argue with that
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Like, seriously: Do a (disabled, mentally ill,... →
marigold-zephyr:
I know I don’t have many followers on here, but those who do see this, please consider sharing far and wide. I’m a disabled queer femme living in London, UK, and I’ve had some problems with my benefit payments. I misread a letter thinking it said that my housing benefit would be suspended within a…
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christqueersandkarlmarx:
hey guess what *leans closer, whispers* our entire society is built to maintain the structures that support those in power and to justify their status at the top and the only way to end the tyranny of the ruling class is to rip it out of their miserable bleeding hands *kisses yr nose* :3
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Epiphany: Relationships aren’t “worked out,” they just survive change, or they don’t.
“Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or...”
– my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
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“Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they grow...”
– Weeds And What They Tell, by E. Pfeiffer (via fuckyeahpermaculture)
This is what I’m sayin’. (via alexamayiborrowapencil)
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