December 2010
17 posts
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even...
Another confession.
I’m freaking terrified of the future.
Confession
I know it’s nothing huge or anything, but I somewhat secretly want to be a hipster.
“One can say many things about the history of the world—except that it is...”
– Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground) (via quotesforintellectuals, fuckyeahexistentialism)
“You can have the airplane, but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds...”
– Henry Drummond (via quotesforintellectuals, claytoncubitt)
Watchcheck-it:
Der hohe Schein (The high Glint) by Marcel Barion
quick thoughts in the form of a post because i don’t feel like writing extensively.
i think i’ve been experiencing reverse culture shock to some extent. i believe others from the trip are too. blah.
might watch The Wind that Shakes the Barley and/or The Road today. (that first movie is about Ireland. hotdog.)
going to eat at Chili’s with one Lindsay Grant while sitting in one...
Heirarchy of Beards
beardrevue:
Oldie but Goodie: David Malki’s Hierarchy of Beards poster.
Beards have been part of humanity’s hairy history for decades. Now, for the first time in wall-mounted form, comes this handy 18” x 24” chart tracking the hierarchy of the many types of beard that currently adorn the face of Man. This is a greatly expanded version of the pocket-sized Beard Spotting Guide from the...
I am almost done with everything I need to have done for this semester. So. Close.
Coming home on Monday. Boo ya. I can’t wait to sleep in my own bed.
Joke for the day: What’s the last thing that went through the bug’s mind when he hit the windshield?
His butt.