January 2009
Buttered cat paradox →
claytoncubitt:
The buttered cat paradox is a joke paradox based on the tongue-in-cheek combination of two adages: Cats always land on their feet. Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height.
December 2008
New Year's Eve review
The only this I can definitely say, at least about the past year, is that I have only one regret. I wish the first couple months of the year had turned out better than they did but from May on it has been absolutely amazing. That was my fault for no being honest, with myself and you. I will never make that mistake again. Honesty, in some things, is definitely the best policy.
Happy New Year
“It is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via nightmarebrunette)
The Porn Myth →
syntheticpubes:
[Andrea Dworkin, anti-porn activist] was right about the warning, wrong about the outcome. As she foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal, adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena. The whole world, post-Internet, did become pornographized. Young men and women are indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and...
Man Shot In Philly Theatre For Talking During...
peterwknox:
thedailywhat:
A man and his son, who were talking to each other during a showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Riverview Theatre in Philadelphia, so enraged another moviegoer that he shot the father point-blank with a .380-caliber pistol.
From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Police were called to the Riverview Theatre in the 1400 block of Columbus Boulevard about...
“All life is just a progression toward, and a regression from, one phrase—‘I love...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate” (via scout) (via beautifulanddepraved)
rock the 'stash →
“Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them...”
– The Wonder Years (via littlemiss) (via sunlit-skies) (via srsly) (via rxkat)
