Umm… My hat matches my napkin. FTW?!?
Female superheroes based on how little girls imagine them [10 pictures]
As an ongoing side project, artist Alexandria Law finds pictures of little girls dressed up as superheroes and then draws them as if they were real.
This is Water – cinematically
Suffice to say, this is a piece of writing that means a lot to me. We did a play called “[How to] Stay Human that was in large part, about this… and the environment. There’s a connection there, and we tried to draw it.
It’s amazing that anyone was able…
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
Writer’s alley.
Thank goodness I found this place. All my robots are totally wrecked!
Power Center. Ann Arbor. (at Power Center for the Performing Arts)
@acaciatrees has some awesome taste in vinyl.
“On Christmas Day 1915, looking back at his diary, [Kafka] realized that over the past three or four years he could have made thousands of entries all more or less identical with the last one, all complaining ineffectually. But, at thirty-two, he could no longer believe, as he had ten years earlier, that it was within his powers to solve the problems that made life so difficult for him.”
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The more we live, the more convinced we become of two truths that contradict each other. The first is that next to the reality of life all the fictions of literature and art pale. It’s true that they give us a nobler pleasure than what we get from life, but they’re like dreams which, though offering us feelings not felt in life, are none the less dreams that dissipate when we wake up, leaving no memories or nostalgia with which we could later live a second life.
The other truth is that, since every noble soul desires to live life in its entirety—experiencing all things, all places and all feelings—and since this is objectively impossible, the only way for a noble soul to live life is subjectively; only by denying life can it be lived in its totality.
These two truths are mutually exclusive. The wise man won’t try to reconcile them, nor will he dismiss one or the other. But he will have to follow one or the other, yearning at times for the one he didn’t choose; or he’ll dismiss them both, rising above himself in a personal nirvana.
Happy the man who doesn’t ask for more than what life spontaneously gives him, being guided by the instinct of cats, which seek sunlight when there’s sun, and when there’s no sun then heat, wherever they find it. Happy the man who renounces his personality in favor of the imagination and who delights in contemplating other people’s lives, experiencing not all impressions but the outward spectacle of all impressions. And happy, finally, the man who renounces everything, who has nothing that can be taken from him, nothing that can be diminished.
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic—these three are happy in life, for these three types of men all renounce their personalities: one because he lives by instinct, which is impersonal, another because he lives by the imagination, which is forgetting, and the third because he doesn’t live but merely (since he still hasn’t died) sleeps.
Nothing satisfies me, nothing consoles me; everything that has been and that hasn’t been jades me. I don’t want to have my soul and don’t want to renounce it. I want what I don’t want and renounce what I don’t have. I can’t be nothing nor be everything: I’m the bridge between what I don’t have and what I don’t want.
”(via muumuuhouse)
