16 4 / 2011
No, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yesssssss
Has God been first in your life? Have you made a god to suit yourself? Have you used God’s name in vain? Have you kept the Sabbath holy? Have you honored your parents? Did you know that if you hate someone, the Bible says you are a murderer. If you lust, you commit adultery in your heart. Have you stolen, lied (includes “white” lies), or been greedy? On Judgment Day you will be guilty, but God doesn’t want to send you to Hell.
—from a bookmark I found at work.
Did you read this in a nine-year-old-with-ADD voice in your head? Do you think it’s weird that some of your answers are supposed to be yes, and some of them no?
04 4 / 2011
"Perhaps, he writes, “dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there,” namely the existential knowledge “that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we’ve lost one more day that will never come back."
02 4 / 2011
"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don’t notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is."
(Source: , via tulletulle)
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31 3 / 2011
Instead of smoking. Should I market this to help others quit? Hair pictures, MS Paint.
30 3 / 2011
I feel like washing my face then putting food on it
This is the best toner you can use. I use apple cider vinegar. I dilute half of it with water and use a pad or cotton ball and apply it after I wash my face. I use to use it consistently for two years my skin was amazing, then I switched to lemon juice because of the smell and I was going out alot with guys, but my acne came back more when I stopped using acv toner. I’m using it again and I see a huge difference in my skin.
Lemon juice as toner = going out alot with guys; more acne.
ACV (as we of the Long Hair Community call Apple Cider Vinegar, when we talk about rinsing our hair in it [before conditioning with coconut oil])… as toner = smelling like piss; clear skin.
Hmm.
Doesn’t she put the toner on before she goes to bed? And then wash her face in the morning? So how does anyone ever smell it?
OH. By “going out with” she means going HOME with. And it’s easier to fit a lemon into your purse than a glass bottle of ACV, and it’s cuter (Jan Brady esque!) to rub a lemon on your face than an amber-colored liquid that smells like urine. Somewhat like urine. I use it on my hair and I can verify that it smells less like it than microwavable buttered popcorn does.
But once I rinse it out of my hair and condition with coconut oil, my hair doesn’t keep smelling vinegary. Why would her face keep smelling vinegary? Does skin hold in odor stronger than hair? Maybe because the ACV actually soaks into the skin, as opposed to sliding down/sealing the cuticle of the hair?
I have so many questions for this woman. But I have a feeling that if I tried to Really Discuss ACV with her - its uses, drawbacks, benefits - she would keep derailing the conversation to talk alot about guys.
30 3 / 2011
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
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29 3 / 2011
Secularity
Isn’t that the way Paul suggests the dead are resurrected? Pneumatically?
—from The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams
When I read that pair of sentences I thought, “Which song is that?”
Then, “Oh.”
Paul of the New Testament, not Paul of the Beatles.
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22 3 / 2011
"I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl."
(via tulletulle)
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10 3 / 2011
Things, Fleur Adcock
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things
than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
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07 3 / 2011
But the best misheard lyric is “And I miss you / like the pheasants miss the rain”
My whole life I’ve heard the lyrics “It’s the same old song / but with a different beat since you’ve been gone.” Just now watching Blood Simple with subtitles for the hearing impaired and me, I realized the lyrics are “But with a different MEANING since you’ve been gone.” Not as good.
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