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Sat Nov 14
“ It’s un-American to hold anyone indefinitely without trial. It’s against our principles as a nation. Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) | TPMDC (via squashed)

Henry and Katherine.

The truncation in the second part is interesting. They left out a bunch of dirty jokes.

 ”I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it.”

Benjamin Bagby’s Beowulf. The harp is a reproduction of the Sutton Hoo harp. He begins at line 99 of the poem: Swā þā driht-guman drēamum lifdon (“These warriors lived in joy”).

Thu Oct 22
oldhollywood: Frances Farmer (via getty) No one ever came to me and said, “You’re a fool. There isn’t such a thing as God. Somebody has been stuffing you.” It wasn’t a murder. I think God just died of old age. And when I realized that he wasn’t any more, it didn’t shock me. It seemed natural and right. Maybe it was because I was never properly impressed with a religion. I went to Sunday school and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn’t believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true …I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness. -excerpt from “God Dies”, the controversial high school essay written by Frances Farmer in 1931. The full essay can be read here.   “It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.” -Farmer, on reaction to her essay “God Dies”

oldhollywood:

Frances Farmer (via getty)

No one ever came to me and said, “You’re a fool. There isn’t such a thing as God. Somebody has been stuffing you.” It wasn’t a murder. I think God just died of old age. And when I realized that he wasn’t any more, it didn’t shock me. It seemed natural and right.

Maybe it was because I was never properly impressed with a religion. I went to Sunday school and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn’t believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true

…I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.

-excerpt from “God Dies”, the controversial high school essay written by Frances Farmer in 1931. The full essay can be read here.  

“It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.”

-Farmer, on reaction to her essay “God Dies”

Wed Sep 16
thefamouschronicles: vonhottie: Vote here to see von Hottie NAKED in a future issue of Time Out New York! Vote as often as you can through 9/26/09. Please reblog,tweet, and forward to your friends!  Voting for Von Hottie! I love Eve’s face in the background here.

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I love Eve’s face in the background here.

Sun Sep 13
Boy, Oh, Boy - Maureen Dowd

” “A good many people in South Carolina really reject the notion that we’re part of the union,” said Don Fowler, the former Democratic Party chief who teaches politics at the University of South Carolina. He observed that when slavery was destroyed by outside forces and segregation was undone by civil rights leaders and Congress, it bred xenophobia.

“We have a lot of people who really think that the world’s against us,” Fowler said, “so when things don’t happen the way we like them to, we blame outsiders.” He said a state legislator not long ago tried to pass a bill to nullify any federal legislation with which South Carolinians didn’t agree. “

Sat Sep 12
pile: Quite a view last night

pile:

Quite a view last night
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Barack Obama is the president now. Regardless of what you think of him as a politician or a man, he admirably refuses to engage in 9/11 rhetoric. He does not operate from the cynical assumption that his audience believes that America Can Do No Wrong, that to criticize a war is to be a literal traitor, that to not worship the president is to spit on the graves of soldiers, that the correct response to a tragedy is to create a thousand more. He doesn’t talk like that. And so, fucking finally, the anniversary belongs to the latte-sipping out-of-touch coastal elites who witnessed it.

On 9/12, people in New York (and DC) did not feel as “great” as Glenn Beck. They just felt like shit. They felt scared and confused and depressed. Many of them were drunk. And only an idiot or an actual terrorist would want to always feel like it was 9/12/01. And eight years later, normal people, with brains and souls, have decided that some emotional distance from that disaster is healthier and wiser than trying to recapture the dread.

 http://gawker.com/5357371/happy-first-post+911-911, by Pareene.  Read the whole thing, it’s spot on.
Fri Sep 11

“He recognized that the struggle between low brutish beings and what he called “an almost fatal hunger for permanence” was both too solemn and too hilarious ever to be resolved.”

- Anthony Lane, Waugh in Pieces