January 2012
1 post
“We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel- you get on, you go to...”
– Vivian Maier
December 2011
5 posts
“She thinks the more people know about others in the world and are more educated,...”
– Andrea Bruce [Everyday Portraits]
“This type of violence doesn’t just shoot the victim. It shoots the entire...”
– Barbara Davidson, speaking of her LA Times project on victims gang violence. #atlantaseminar
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
November 2011
5 posts
The only good thing that has ever come out of this... →
“Figure out the thing you care most about and mix it with the thing you love to...”
– Kathleen Hanna
“Change, revolutions don’t come because there’s injustice. They begin...”
– David Paterson
October 2011
4 posts
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
“I’m not an artist; I’m a messenger.”
– Mel Rosenthal [A Mentor’s Passion for Pictures and Social Justice]
3 tags
September 2011
2 posts
“To accumulate information per se is not a contribution. But to accumulate...”
– Myles Horton (speech to the Consultation on Appalachia-Rural Poverty in North America, 1968)
“If all you want is a hug from a black person, maybe you should just host The...”
– Tracy Jordan
August 2011
2 posts
4 tags
To my friends and colleagues in Boston who are... →
[Follow the link to a photo essay chronicling Moving Day in Allston last year]
1 tag
Jonathan: You think we learned anything tonight?
George: No, but that's okay. It's good to stay in the dark about things. It keeps life interesting.
July 2011
5 posts
“…life is fleetingly short and incredibly hard if you don’t laugh.”
– Laura Hartmann, as part of a Washington Post “time capsule” edited by Gene Hartmann in 2000. [Go here, keep adding 1 to the last number in the URL, and say goodbye to your day. It’s Six Word Memoirs meets This American Life meets McSweeneys meets One in 8 Million. Maybe better.]
3 tags
“If I had a dollar for every time someone said ‘I really want to come out...”
– MaliVai Washington encouraging us to take action.
“I think the rule is that as long as you add one other ingredient to Jello, you...”
– I don’t know why it took me this long to discover Stuff Southern People Like, but I’m so glad I did.
June 2011
2 posts
“don’t dig something up, find something new.”
– Aaron, on cute animal pictures, and also everything.
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fotofobe)
May 2011
4 posts
“We have to be cool to everybody because the future is like a Japanese game show....”
– Tracy Morgan
“Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold...”
– (happy birthday) Tina Fey
April 2011
12 posts
“The Internet is the repository of all human garbage. It’s the worst place...”
– Tina Fey, interviewed on Fresh Air
“So my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Watchdavidkillingback:
:-)
seawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
“We have no pedestrians here. They were wiped out years ago.”
– Dave Barry talks up Florida on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
“I could live without sprinkles, but why would I want to?”
– Colorless food? We Blanch - New York Times, via @kollyglot
March 2011
5 posts
bricklayer.: Some Old [BS]. →
meghandawn:
so, there is a bill that is going through the house in Florida right now to deregulate a number of professions. The hope is to increase jobs by making certain professions less regulated. Some of the professions are things like auctioneers, talent agencies, persons practicing hair braiding, or body…
Kiti, a ‘certified palm reader’, read...
February 2011
2 posts
“It’s much easier to trust the universe when it’s going well, she...”
– storypeople