When I’ve been drinking at the bar for a while, and I get up to hug my friend hello
i fall all the time!
i rant, i rave
everything i want to talk about.
"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny part of it at any given instant." -DFW
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2012-05-14
Source: whatshouldwecallme
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2012-05-10
When someone cancels a meeting at the last minute and I find myself with an unallocated hour, I’m like
i do this exact dance.
Source: runningastartup
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2012-05-07
#GPOY
I came here to say that i don’t think we should see each other anymore… and it makes me feel stupid and pathetic to get a picture of your dick that i know was meant for someone else, and you didn’t even bother to explain because I made you think that you don’t have to explain…”
“And I don’t even want a boyfriend, so…I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me. And it makes me feel very stupid to tell you this because it makes me sound like a girl who wants to, like, go to brunch…”
“And also, i don’t want a picture of your dick, because I live very near you, so if you wanted me to look at your dick, I could just come over and look at your dick. And I dont really see you hearing me and i dont really see you changing, so i just summed it up for you. And im sorry i didnt figure it out sooner and you must think I’m even stupider than you thought i was already. But consider it a testament to your charms because you might not know this, but you are very, very charming and I really care about you. And i don’t want to anymore, because it feels too shitty for me. So i’m gonna leave…”
—Hannah Horvath, GIRLS “Hannah’s Diary”
Source: awkwardfilmgirl
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2012-05-05
The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life. So that is at the core of who I am.
— Barack Obama, in an interview, reflecting on his ideals, as excerpted in a forthcoming book by David Maraniss. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/06/young-barack-obama-in-love-david-maraniss
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2012-04-18
i really like the “modern love” series in the nytimes. it’s fascinating to read real people’s stories, even if some of them aren’t relatable to me. this one left me feeling good even though i don’t know if that’s the point. she’s 38(?) and dating, which normatively, is something we’re inclined to feel sympathetic not happy about. there’s something about how realistic her story is, though, that makes me feel content. we have all these expectations about the person we’re going to invest long-term in as we should, but often times, they are the wrong ones. it shouldn’t be about a great meet cute or a hot guy or a soul mate, but about someone who’s going to want the same things you do. the journey is also just as important - i really, truly believe, if we can learn to love, accept, and challenge ourselves, making the effort for the right person is going to be worth it, even if it doesn’t always work out.
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2012-04-01
David Brooks: The Life Report: Charles Darwin Snelling
The life reports are in. Meet Charles D. Snelling.
Really beautiful story by a man about the 61 years he spent married to his wife. Sadly, not long after this was published, he took both their lives as she had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for several years.
It it a sad but poignant and heartfelt story.
Source: The New York Times
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2012-03-24
President Obama gave a speech at a community college in Maryland the other day, and a deaf student captured his encounter with the President. After signing “I love you”, President Obama signs back “thank you” without missing a beat. The energy in the room and President Obama’s authenticity is palpable. He often is criticized for being too cool and temperate, but I don’t think that’s true. I think he lacks charisma in the sense that he’s not willing to say anything just to be liked. He has more faith in the American people than to lie to them. I think of any recent high-profile politician, President Obama is the most genuine. You can hear it in the way that he responds to questions as if he’s carefully considered the issue, and in the way that he really tries to relate to people. Watching this video made me a little teary-eyed because this is what it’s like to have a President who really inspires people.
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2012-03-22
it makes me sad when americans don’t live with a sense of the larger world around them. when they don’t stop to think about the little contributions we could each make to vastly improve living conditions domestically and internationally to give more people a chance to compete. education is fundamental to progress, and we are only as great as the investments we make where we live, and our world will be much safer helping others see that too.
it makes me sad that when americans do care and want to make a difference, we’re criticized. we’re naive. we’re imperialists with a “white-man savior complex”. in any business, you have companies who are leading the pack and incredibly innovative and companies that are wasteful, deceptive, and not successful. it’s false signalling to assume that because one charity doesn’t work, none will, and we should stop trying.
it makes me sad that even when we do want to help, it’s easy to default into a state of doing nothing.
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2012-03-01
from 0:32 - 0:55: exactly why i love donald glover.
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2012-02-28
