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"Let's live and tell these little stories."

[whatshouldwecallme]

When I see someone throw away their pizza crust

[npr]

Once the House was gaveled into session, Democrats shouted down the chair. Members remained in the well of the chamber, some literally sitting on the House floor.

“Lawmakers are grouped in the well of the chamber, in front of the speaker’s dais and in chairs in the front row,” NPR’s Sue Davis reports. “Some members are literally sitting on the floor of the House.”

When the House was gaveled back into session a little after noon, Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas who was speaker pro tempore at the time, was shouted down by members.

“No bill, no break,” they chanted. The House is scheduled to break beginning on Sunday.

A prayer was said and members recited the Pledge of Allegiance, but once it became clear that regular business would not take place, Poe called for another recess.

AshLee Strong, a spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan, said the House “cannot operate without members following the rules of the institution, so the House has recessed subject to the call of the chair.”

Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, announced the sit in earlier this morning.

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[theparisreview]

Get up early, insult yourself a bit in the shaving mirror, and then pretend you’re cutting wood.

Lawrence Durrell, The Art of Fiction No. 23 (via theparisreview)

[bigmamablogs-blog]

This clown - ahem, I mean, our fearless leader - is reading tonight at Hugo House! Within the hour. Stop by and say hey girl heyyyyy! #goodvibes #litshit #seattle (at Hugo House)

[bigmamablogs-blog]

Sometimes #litcrawlseattle planning is tough business. #youhaveplansoct22 (at Oddfellows Cafe & Bar)

[bigmamablogs-blog]

Can you guess who this is? Hint, hint: she's reading this Thursday at Love at First Swipe. #tinder (at Shell Station)

[leahcultice]

Amanda Wellsh for Vogue Australia July 2014

[tearthatcherryout]

Drake’s SNL Promo - January 15, 2014 (x)

[bigmamablogs-blog]

Drake drizzy drake drake drake love drake.

[flavorwire]

“Ass full like it’s been stung by the whole hive”

The Most Cringe-Worthy Sex Metaphors on R. Kelly’s ‘Black Panties’ on Flavorwire (via flavorpill)

R. Kelly strikes again!

[austinkleon]

A bunch of books that I like.

[theparisreview]

“A mystical experience would be wasted on me. Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me. One Calvinist notion deeply implanted in me is that there are two sides to your encounter with the world. You don’t simply perceive something that is statically present, but in fact there is a visionary quality to all experience. It means something because it is addressed to you. This is the individualism that you find in Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. You can draw from perception the same way a mystic would draw from a vision.” —Marilynne Robinson, born on this day in 1943

[seattlish]

So everyone has been sharing this article by Amie Ryan called "The Seattle NO" all over the internet because people here love to talk about the Seattle Freeze (barf).

Since this article is serious tl:dr we’ll sum it up for you. Sometimes people try to spare other people’s feelings by saying...

[mythologyofblue]

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Denise Levertov (via mythologyofblue)

[bbook]

I used to sit in my room and think like, what if someone had a gun to your head and you had no fingers, and they said to write a book about the history of, I don’t know, prostitution, and you have three hours to push away on that keyboard—what would that look like? And then I would just try to do it. Or let’s say someone duct-taped a tree branch to your hand and then gave you a huge bowl of ink to dip it in and said that you had thirty five minutes to render your version of the Mona Lisa on this canvas. A lot of it was just playing games with myself to see where it would go.

HARMONY KORINE

[bigmamablogs-blog]

play games with yourself. force your own hand to excavate what's great.

[freepeople]

[firstfledge-blog-blog]

The Window // Robert Creeley

Position is where you put it, where it is, did you, for example, that

large tank there, silvered, with the white church along- side, lift

all that, to what purpose? How heavy the slow world is with everything put in place. Some man walks by, a car beside him on the dropped

road, a leaf of yellow color is going to

fall. It all drops into place. My

face is heavy with the sight. I can feel my eye breaking.

(Poetry Foundation) (Recording via PennSound) 

[bigmamablogs-blog]

The Incredible Creeley Strikes Again.

[austinkleon]

The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity—people they’ve never met and never will—that’s what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via austinkleon)