i have a sudden urgent desire to eat raw corn. i think that means it's summer.
May 2009
153 posts
sade:
On the way home I saw a squirrel and I wondered why, exactly, our lives are so much more meaningful than any other mammal. Then I realized it’s probably not. Because I’m there, and I’m sitting in traffic, just getting out of a ten hour work day so I can get a meager paycheck to support my education which will lead to a job with a slightly less meager paycheck and then I’ll still die. Where’s the meaning? I guess maybe love. But I have a feeling that love is just a whole lot of hormones with a little bit of neediness.
I have this theory that there are people you like to laugh with and people you like to have sex with and if you find someone who fulfills both of those things, well, that’s the closest thing to love you’ll find. Coming from a young woman who has never been in love, my argument would not hold any water and so I’ve never told anyone that. I couldn’t really imagine truly wanting to marry someone I like laughing with because chances are you will grow to silently resent each other and the anchors you’ve shoved on each others’ fingers. And every memory of every laugh you’ve ever shared with that person will be swiss-cheesed with the realization that they fucking suck (after they’ve fucked & sucked).
I would do a lot better if I was alive 1000 years ago, I think.
Those goddamn, fucking squirrels…
100000% correct. Everybody follow Caragh, she’s like a robot me. Better, faster, stronger.
i’m in love, and i had a good day so i’m not feeling cynical like usual, but that doesn’t mean some part of me can’t still appreciate the realization here and the writing.
April 2009
158 posts
AFTERLIFE
You mean all
those “loved ones”
who drove you nuts
when they were alive,starting with your super
critical mother, your
absent father, your sadistic
brother and your hystericallyvain sister, you expect to be
reunited with
upon your death?
Are you outof your mind
or just plain crazy?
Slang from the 20's
rach:
Applesauce- an expletive same as horsefeathers, As in “Ah applesauce!”
Bearcat - a hot-blooded or fiery girl
Cash or check? - Do you kiss now or later?
Darb - An excellent person or thing (as in “the Darb” - a person with money who can be relied on to pay the check)
Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
“Now you’re on the trolley!” - Now you’ve got it, now you’re right!
Ossified - a drunk person
Spifflicated - Drunk. The same as canned, corked, tanked, primed, scrooched, jazzed, zozzled, plastered, owled, embalmed, lit, potted, ossified or fried to the hat
I want to say to there.
I plan to use ‘Now you’re on the trolley’ asap.
Say, You been hittin’ the giggle water, haven’t ya?
Nope, no trouble here, Ossifer (hic).
From the 20s, or from the right now if you’re in Ireland, apparently. “Ossified” is not unusual here.
bearcats, cougars. it all makes sense.
Has had rather too much to drink.
Ossified; plastered; locked; paralytic; plastered; langers; off his face; mouldly; pissed; half cut; stocious; ólta; legless; polluted.
Quotidian local colloquialisms for drunk.
i wish we Americans had more colorful phrases for “drunk.” i guess it makes sense though that the Irish would trump us (what is it they say about Eskimos and their names for snow?)
but i guess Americans have multiple phrases for “soda,” which seems about right.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK. →
hulu.com
if you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely watch The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (the original documentary on which, i’m assuming, Milk was based, and Hulu has it for free!) i watched this as a sophomore in college, in a gender and sexuality in literature class, and remember crying for hours after, wondering how i’d gone my whole life without knowing about Harvey Milk, and feeling so sad that people like this, brave and beautiful ppl, are taken from us before they can do all the good they can.
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“Seriously. Jesus started the whole wait-three-days thing — he waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect. If he’d have only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn’t have even heard that he died. They’d be all, ‘hey, Jesus, what up?’ And Jesus would probably be like, ‘what up? I died, yesterday!’ Then they would be all, ‘uh, you look pretty alive to me, dude.’ And then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected and how it was a miracle. And then the dude would be like, ‘uh OK, whatever you say, bro.’ He’s not going to come back on a Saturday — everybody’s busy, doing chores, working their looms, trimming their beards. No, he waits the exact right number of days: Three. Plus, it’s Sunday, so everyone’s already in church already. They’re all in there, ‘oh no, Jesus is dead.’ Then, bam, he bursts through the back door, runs up the aisle, everybody’s totally psyched, and FYI: That’s when he invented the high five. Three days. We wait three days, because that’s how long Jesus wanted us to wait. True story.”
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Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother (via funnastyfun - elohbee) (via replicant) (via mayonegg)
OMG i need to start watching this show.
“I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
—Paul Newman (via cleverdirt) (via fuckyeahpaulnewman)
“I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”
—Paul Newman (via bellabenevolence) (via fuckyeahpaulnewman)
“I like the way your arms come out of your body.”
—my dad (speaking affectionately to my mother) (via ingridmichaelson)
