palin gets the witchcraft spirit cast out of her

jump to 6:58 if you don't have time to watch the whole thing.
this is nuts.

palin- jesus christ

this makes me speechless

i wish you way more than luck

Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

-David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, Keyton 2005
full speech

art by Kelly McCallum

how long is now

if i throw up the bad will come out of me

if i throw out the good will come up

if i throw down the mess will spray out

next time i'll put my seed in you

next time now will be then
posting to your blog

thrusting to your post
your pics tell our secret

a secret everyone knows
the illusion of beauty

even if i sanction a lasting joy
it leaves

warehousing

From Palestine Chronicle by Jeff Halper:

"If Israel can package and export its layered Matrix of Control, a system of permanent repression that combines Kafkaesque administration, law and planning with overtly coercive forms of control over a defined population hemmed in by hostile gated communities (settlements in this case), walls and obstacles of various kinds to movement, then, as Klein writes starkly, every country will look like Israel/Palestine: "One part looks like Israel; the other part looks like Gaza." In other words, a Global Palestine."

full article

second self

i lay my heart before you
second self
white yellow black black
leaning bending in
what did you say?
how does it sound?
abstract math is irrelevant
oliver tumbles
tabitha wonders

berlin photos 1

i'm home

hipsterdom

read this article:
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization