February 2012
4 posts
Jason Smith: Settled Debates →
jasonsmithtx:
Birth Control
“We need to take sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be used by militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather, are using it as a political stepping stone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health…
January 2012
24 posts
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Chris Gray Day starting NOW. →
htownrock:
Find all the details in the link above. Head down to the Continental Club block at Main & Alabama, drop (at least) 20 bucks in the jar, and peruse the cool stuff for auction whilst taking in stages of bands. Should the donations actually exceed Chris’s medical bills, the rest of the money will go to the Houston Blues Museum. DO IT!
Writers' Routines: David Lynch →
nedhepburn:
writersroutines:
For seven years in the 1980s he ate lunch at Bob’s Big Boy every day, which consisted of cup after cup of coffee and a single chocolate milkshake while scribbling notes on Bob’s napkins. He arrived at Bob’s at precisely 2:30 p.m. each day. The reason: “If you go earlier, at lunchtime, they’re making a lot of chocolate milkshakes. The mixture has to cool in a...
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“People choose shitty things. People choose 2 and a Half Men and NASCAR and...”
– The People’s Choice Awards Suck (Gawker)
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Yelping with Cormac: Tijuana Marriott Hotel →
yelpingwithcormac:
Tijuana, Mexico
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Five stars.
I want to go back to the hotel, said Clyde.
The hacendado leaned against a wine cask in the dim cellar and regarded Clyde. You will be returned soon, he said. First there is the matter of the girl.
I didn’t do…
This blog is probably my favorite piece of the internet at the moment.
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Ned Hepburn: What Your Choice In Republican... →
nedhepburn:
Mitt Romney. You think that irony is only something that pennies taste like. You feel nothing in your heart when you hold a baby.
Ron Paul. You live by the motto ‘substance over style’ as an excuse to wear sweatpants with New Balance sneakers every day for every occasion.
Rick Santorum. When you cut yourself shaving baby spiders and a howling wind come out.
Ned’s a...
mrshl:
Petitioning to officially make Arian’s nickname “Bananas.”
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December 2011
16 posts
“I still love analogue colour and black and white photographs.
To me it is like...”
– Dr. Marcus Bunyan on analogue print photography. (via anti-deity)
Truthiness.
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy (via thenewavengers, angwe & moorehn)
[Banksy speaks the truth.]
(via dryvetyme)
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Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters →
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their...
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain
(via Sabine)
November 2011
38 posts
suicidewatch:
Ty Segall “Buick Mackane” (T.Rex...
Transcribing
this interview with Carlos Hernandez I’m writing for Texas Music Magazine. All I want to do is screen print now. Pretty sure I’m going to turn that last Aretha Franklin poster into a print.