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fish, horrifying, video 8:11 AM | 0 comments
A video of what happens when a starfish is flipped upside down. Cool but somewhat disconcerting to see the power behind those limbs.
books, quotations 12:54 AM | 0 comments
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."
- Sylvia Plath
art, children, poop 11:03 AM | 0 comments
This child must be some sort of clairvoyant -- how else could she so accurately summarize my sense of humor in one concise artistic sweep?
gay, mcdonalds, video 10:59 AM | 0 comments
I am conflicted by the message this video sends: while I certainly love that McDonald's France is reaching out to gay teens, anyone who's anyone knows that gays do not eat fast food. Well, unless it is two in the morning - then we're pretty much face deep in a twenty piece McNugget shit show.