“… if the ground splits and opens up beneath me, i don’t want to be close to it, i want to be by the ceiling, dangling monkey-style from the fluorescent lights, watching it all open up beneath me. sudden panic gripped me: in all other situations in which safety is an issue, your first instinct is to run, to get as far away from the thing causing you stress and harm as possible. crouching on the floor, i realized that i was staring my immediate danger in the face. i was basically eskimo-kissing it. […] i could run, but no matter where i went, my feet would be on the ground. i cursed gravity for keeping me earth-bound.”
—free rad!cals: the day the earth moved
July 2008
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“
for those of you who haven’t tasted my special sauce, you are in for a treat.
you might slap somebody. you might even slap yourself.
” —Tony (security guard/ part-time caterer at Markham Middle School, where i teach summer school english)
“… And without making any grandiose claims, this lovely, touching film demonstrates that the World Trade Center sky walk was an important event. The proof is in the emotions — amusement, amazement, awe — evoked by those images of a tiny human figure balancing above a void. Also gratitude. It is easy to imagine that, in contemplating the scale and solidity of those brand-new towers, Mr. Petit saw them at least partly as the vehicle of his own immortality. No one looking up at the New York sky on a hazy morning 34 years ago and seeing a man on a wire could have suspected that the reverse would turn out to be true.”
—Man on Wire - Movie - Review - The New York Times
“he was all done up… with a cowboy hat and everything…”
—Michael Beach (talking about Bernie Mac)
“i love drawing U.S. presidents! literally, i love drawing presidents…”
—Craig Jones
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“
it was soft…
like the skin of a rat.
” —Mike Beach (trying to explain the texture of a futon)just signed up for tumblr and am interested in finding out what this is about…
