December 2011
WatchAuthor Russell Banks on Writing Through the Voices of Outcasts, Criminals and Revolutionaries
Small spiders have TERRIFYING GIANT BRAINS →
Tiny spiders are tiny, but relative to their body size it turns out their brains are ginormous. In some cases, 80 percent of a spider’s body cavity contains central nervous tissues. Other spiders store parts of their brains in their legs.
[If they didn’t have to suck all their nourishment through a tube, they’d have taken over the world millions of years ago.]
A Bird
blueheron:
Unexplained
In the salt meadow
Lay the dead bird.
The wind
Was fluttering its wings.
— Sheila Wingfield
Clifton (banjo & voice) and John (harp) Hicks...
“Who knew that his biggest legacy would be the ability to rain death from the...”
– Mike Lofgren remarking about President Obama
"We were so poor..."
We were so poor I had to take the place of the bait in the mousetrap. All alone in the cellar, I could hear them pacing upstairs, tossing and turning in their beds. “These are dark and evil days,” the mouse told me as he nibbled my ear. Years passed. My mother wore a cat-fur collar which she stroked until its sparks lit up the cellar.
— Charles Simic
the International Sweethearts of Rhythm - Jump...
A Dog Called Elderly
And now I have a dog called Elderly
And all he ever wants to do
Is now and then be let out for a piss
But spend the rest of his lifetime
Sleeping on my lap in front of the fire.
— Adrian Mitchell
Clifton Hicks - Naomy Wise
I don’t know...
elizabeth pickett mills - come garden with me--a...
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and...”
– Samuel Gompers (1893)
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– William James
(via illuminatedbeing)
Awesome Interview with High Frontiers Designer... →
“My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but...”
– J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays (via apex-nadir)
One of my favorite quotes because Haldane knows deeply what he’s saying & because it humbles the guttering flicker called the human intellect.
“Forever is composed of Nows.”
– Emily Dickinson (via pavorst)
ringtales:
artmodelnyc:
John Coltrane I’m Old...
Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S. →
Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors.
[Anything KBR is involved with must be good news.]
Happy Birthday to Me!
So enough about me. How are y’all doing?
