WALT WHITMAN VIVA'D LOCAL LOSERS—

Pride and crime and war and punishment and sense and peace and prejudice and sensibility

big tshirt that says MY INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and THIS IS FUN TO ME on the back

i am searching valiantly for bloomers do we think i'll find a good pair before my trip. i have a week

FOUND A PAIR

I once sent a woman a text message so interesting that she took three whole days to read it

im so excited to go to the beach next month i just spent like half an hour on trying to decide which books i'm gonna bring

ok so i just went through my stacks #mystacks to pull out every possible option i might want to consider and now my longlist for beach26 is 64 books long

You really do have to have read and watched everything in order to really get even one thing.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time--when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. - The Demon-Haunted World (1995), Carl Sagan