January 2011
49 posts
20 Words English Lacks →
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases...
And not a single fuck was given that day.
People always say they don’t give a fuck. I never believe them. I would believe them if they would say they wished they didn’t give a fuck or they should not give a fuck. But that’s not what they say. They say they don’t give a fuck. But they do, they always do. I have said ‘I don’t give a fuck’ more time than I can count. I never once meant it, I always wished I did, though. If people really...
On Turning Ten, Billy Collins.
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light— a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful...
“I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that a man has is art,...”
– Lorraine Hansberry
The Kinds of People You Can Date →
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
The State of the Union Drinking Game 2011 →
Serial Killer
“Don’t go home with him, he might be a serial killer or something,” he said.
“I don’t think he is, but if I am wrong, I trust you to say something beautiful at my funeral,” she responded. “Bye.”
JFK's Unimpressive Harvard Application →
Literary Allusion in the Age of Google →
London 2012 Logo is a Blowjob
The logo for London’s candidacy to host the 2012 Olympics blows…
…quite literally. This clip reveals a bit more truth to it.
This should’ve been the real logo. Simple, iconic, powerful. Goddamn Brits.
Backlash on GAP. →
Make your own crappy logo.
Realistic Miniature War Scenes →
The Marwencol trailer - wow.
Van Gogh's Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted →
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the...
fAAAmily. →
lypan:
kevinkong:
inkless-pen:
Asian? like Asians? like Asian things? a new place to go, a community for all things Asian, Asian American, Asian American related, and … just fun in general. Feel free to contribute (:
Bonnie Wong is my favorite Asian.
Kevin, how could you?! And I thought we had something special.
Linda, you are so 2010.
haha jp you are my favorite person regardless...
fAAAmily. →
inkless-pen:
Asian? like Asians? like Asian things? a new place to go, a community for all things Asian, Asian American, Asian American related, and … just fun in general. Feel free to contribute (:
Bonnie Wong is my favorite Asian.
Rare (lost) Words
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. siagonology - study of jaw-bones. autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. nepheliad - cloud-nymph. gardeviance - chest for valuables; a travelling trunk. ictuate - to emphasize. senticous - prickly; thorny. interfation - act of interrupting...
100 Greatest Writers of All Time →
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and reserved....
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be...”
– Paulo Coelho (via libraryland)
A Simple Man's Wants
I want what the moment wants To begin but never end Immortal in fragile hearts Conducting love through human beats I want what the past wants To always be remembered Timeless in savage minds Illumination for dark nights I want what the truth wants To be known and understood Constant in my search for valor Endearing art that never lies
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to...”
– W.M. Lewis (via piefacex3)
“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart