September 2009
181 posts
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amyjanebexplainsall:
If it’s good enough for ‘Patron-Saint-of-Museum-Studies’ Michel Foucault, then it’s good enough for me.
nerdgasms:
12minds:
1. Don’t work long hours
Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours.
Philosopher Michel Foucault would only work from 9am to 3pm. Beethoven only worked...
In which a strange feeling of non-emotion...
srsly:
Today I was looking through my closet, sorting clothes to donate to Typhoon Ondoy victims, and I came across the hoodie he used to own, which gave me when we first became a couple a million years ago. Black and grey stripes, Zara basic, Eur-USA-Mex L/40. I’ll never forget it. I’ll never forget him in it, either. The hoodie has been in the back of my closet for so long that the grey has...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
And sometimes I just can’t help but feel that little bit sad. Because it feels...
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As great as we have been, I think that I would be better off if I let you go....
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txtsfrmlstnght:
(303): Just walked pass a bum on the way to a coinstar… awkward
txtsfrmlstnght:
(305): i made the cop pinkie-promise not to arrest me if i failed the breathalizer.
Today, after seeing an MLIA about making sharks on...
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Three men walk into a bar... I forgot the rest,...
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txtsfrmlstnght:
(248): I was wasted and lost so I called the cops and asked for directions. It seemed logical at the time
I’m scared to move on because I’m worried that the second I’m happy with someone...
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Do you ever get that feeling where you don’t want to talk to anybody? You don’t...
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txtsfrmlstnght:
(925): i just hate vaginas for liking penis’s insside them
I know it hurts. I know that. But if you give up now, you may be missing...
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Sigh…
He’s right! Supermarkets should definitely have small doors leading to the cake room!
When you truly care for someone, you don’t look for faults. You don’t look for...
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And I know when my Vicodin’s not Vicodin. Do you know when your birth control...
– Gregory House. (via fuckyeahhousemd)
eletheowl:
inahaze:
Sometimes I lay in bed, my stomach too much in knots to fall asleep, and a part of me wonders if one day I’ll wake up and realize that with you there is nothing to worry about, that every promise you ever made to me you meant, that you love me as much as you say you do, and that even though I was a pain in the ass 98% of the time you never gave up on me. But then the other...
We spend half our life sleeping, but we spend our whole life waiting. Waiting in...
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