February 2012
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“She wants to step off the world but can’t find the edge.”
– Jim Harrison | “Muse II”
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“We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced...”
– Kobun Otogawa
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I’ve been sitting [zazen] for a few weeks now. In the morning and before sleep. I was recently telling a friend that there are waves of wanting to do anything else—even running into the other room, lighting a cigarette, and putting it out on my arm. Anything that...
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“Praise and blame have equal ability to build up our false sense of selfhood....”
– Brad Warner
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“While attempting to find a tree, he discovers that their city has been closed...”
– Danny Fucking DeVito is voicing the Lorax
Danny “I like hangin’ out under bridges and bangin’ whores” DeVito. I’m going to have to see this in the theater. The entire time I’ll be imagining the Lorax dropping his magnum condom that he uses for his monster dong....
"Mr. Cody, hook me up wit a glue stick… I'mma cut...
This blog just reminded me of how badly I want to get a bunch of kids from the ghetto together to do a Mystery Science Theater 3000 style commentary on Kickstarter videos.
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I'm a vegetarian now.
Yeah.
I’ve probably eaten more meat—and weird meat, at that—in my life than any of you. And I’ve spoken quite negatively about vegetarians in general. There was a point, I think, when I referred to them as sub-human hippie scum.
That was probably a week ago.
But I really can’t ignore the facts behind meat any more. It really is systematic torture. I’m still...
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The great and honorable governor of New Jersey
has vetoed the gay marriage bill, and declared that all flags be at half mast for Whitney Houston’s death.
The same piece of shit who can’t even get his own weight under control is trying to tell me that I can’t marry anyone I want and that I must have the same level of respect for Whitney Houston that I do for soldiers killed in battle, or, I don’t know, John F...
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“He’s hiding behind your pain, Jake. You’re protecting him with your...”
– Revolver
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“You’ve heard that voice for so long—you believe it to be you. You...”
– Revolver
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“Yet critics point to inherent problems in such long-term contracts, particularly...”
– Chris Kirkham | “Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons”
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As I was saying…
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[Via Clayton Cubitt / New Deal 2.0 / Twitter]
Kidnapped for Christ: documentary about children... →
I fucking hate Cory Doctorow and his complete lack of journalistic integrity; every single article he posts on Boing Boing is misrepresented, inflated nonsense. But I had to post this here. This shit is unbelievably sick, and I seriously wonder how much people know about it. We think, here in the United States, that things are fucked up and we deal with inequality and police brutality,...
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“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a...”
– Nicholas Carr | “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
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“You could argue that the meaning we perceive is just a chemical reaction within...”
– Brad Warner | The End of Science?
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“All I really know is he’s the leader of Tibet (which I completely agree...”
– Brad Warner | Whack The Dalai Lama
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“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Not Always So
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“Physical practice and rules are not so easy to understand, maybe especially for...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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“You know how to rest physically. You know how to rest mentally. Even though you...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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“In fact to harbor some ill will may even be better than to have some idea in...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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“Although it probably seems obvious that music can evoke emotions, it is to this...”
– Scientific American | “Why Does Music Make Us Feel?”
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Miles Davis | “Someday My Prince Will...
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“No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it,...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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I'm roughly three hundred pages into Ulysses
And I’m realizing that I would rather take a shower, sweep the floor, eat a taco, wash dishes, clean my desk—anything that isn’t reading this book. There are occasionally very good sentences. But I think Joyce was trying way too hard to be taken seriously when he should have been making art*. Do any writers like this book, or is it only academics? Because, academically,...
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“I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back. Endless,...”
– James Joyce | Ulysses
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“Reading two pages apiece of seven books, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself...”
– James Joyce | Ulysses
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“Before Buddha attained enlightenment he made all possible efforts for us, and at...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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“We do not slight the idea of attaining enlightenment, but the most important...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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“More important than any stage which you will attain is your sincerity, your...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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Last night I dreamt--
—that my friends drugged me and took me to Mexico. I don’t who the fuck they were, but they were my “friends.” I woke up at dusk, outside some kind of Mexican strip mall near the Arizona border, blinking and asking why it was so fucking hot. They giggled and told me that they slipped something into my drink and took me to Mexico. “Surprise!” My first words were...
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“The first two paragraphs of “Proteus” are especially difficult...”
– Cliffs Notes | “Ulysses: Summary and Analysis”
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I’m very thankful for two things: This calling the first two paragraphs “especially difficult”—which made me feel slightly less like an idiotic twat—and helping me to understand that what I read was, in...
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“So you should accept knowledge as if you were hearing something you already...”
– Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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Nachos →
Nachos
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I'm writing this--
—so that I will remember to never, ever fucking say that I’m having a “good day” ever again. Because this day has turned to shit faster than I can even believe. That last post was the mother of all fucking jinxes.
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Today
I wrote six pages, read the introduction and first eighty pages of Ulysses, cut down three trees, leaf-blower-ed the shit out of basically everything, ate a pound and a half of pulled pork, had two perfect black cups of carefully brewed pour-over coffee, and I got new sheets last night for my bed. I also picked up a pillow “sham,” but I’m ashamed of that; why not call it a...
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“A grim blue face with recessive eyes swam into focus, a mysterious countenance...”
– Philip K Dick | Ubik
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“Though he clearly teaches life lessons and even offers valuable insights to The...”
– Holy fucking shit, this Frank Reynolds Wikipedia article is amazing.
I don’t know much I would have to do to complete my transition into Frank Reynolds. I could do more drugs, but everything else here could easily have been written about me.
January 2012
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Whenever someone re-blogs one of my posts it says...
And if a person sees that and wonders, Hmm, who is this “iwillnotsuckyou” person, they click on the link and end up on a page that says, “And I will not be sucked on—by you.”
All of this makes me incredibly happy. Because I’m an adult.
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“Having a clear vision of your life means having a tight grip on your ego...”
– Brad Warner | Hardcore Zen: Meditation, Depression, and the Sense of Self