living in a shotgun shack: Archive

“If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice,” King told the congregation. “Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.”

MLK Jr

Aug 31, 2011

“If every trace of any single religion were wiped out again and nothing was passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it out again. Without hype, Lot’s salt-heap ho would never be thought of again. Without science, the Earth still goes around the sun and someday someone will find a way to prove that again.” —Penn Jillette (via bringtheruckuss)

Aug 30, 201142 notes

#SCIENCE!

they ain't kiddin

How to Grill the Perfect Steak

I’m happy to say that finally having a real grill (Weber!) and cooking on it for the first time (bone in rib eye) I carefully followed the directions (I seldom do such a thing). Yo. YUM!

Aug 30, 2011

Aug 28, 201157 notes

#art it like #(do this w/ a bunch of quotes)

Aug 28, 20119 notes

#art i like

Aug 28, 201132 notes

#Cy Twombly #sculpture #art i like

I HATE

right now.

#hurricane #windy #keep your hats on

this is just Daily Show bait and I wish the press would stop reporting on these items:

“Rick Perry: Middle Income Americans Don’t Pay Enough Income Taxes”

assholes.

Aug 24, 2011

Aug 24, 201116 notes

Phrase of the Day

devils and traitors

coined by Gaddafi today

Aug 24, 2011

#POTD

bitchin WFMU post about country music records featuring fuzztone guitar sounds (MP3s) http://bit.ly/nhmk17 YAY INDIE RADIO!

Aug 24, 2011

#music #music I like

Romney on Where Corporate Earnings Go: An Important Statement Misheard

azspot:

“Romney turned a relatively modest fortune into a much larger one – Maureen Dowd reckons his net worth at between $190 and $250 million – by buying undervalued corporations, converting that excess into cash for the his firm’s partners and investors (pensions, high net-worth individuals, institutional investors, etc.), and then reselling the now-stripped company. That’s what private equity firms, like Romney’s unquestionably successful Bain Capital, do. [1] Simply put, Romney’s business was to turn the difference between a corporation’s market value and real value into cash and distribute it to some ’human beings’ and a lot of corporate people – just not those whose efforts and investments created the excess value he harvested.”

— Romney on Where Corporate Earnings Go: An Important Statement Misheard

“She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts — then she is like five men,” a colleague in the French resistance once said.

living in a shotgun shack

August 2011

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