Words from the Blue

[s-cawley]

XXXIV

Time flies by like a great whale And I find my hand grows stale at the throttle Of my many faceted and fake appearance Who bucks and spouts by detour under the sheets Hollow portals of solid appearance Movies are poems, a holy bible, the great mother to us People go by in the fragrant day Accelerate softly my blood But blood is still blood and tall as a mountain blood Behind me green rubber grows, feet walk In wet water, and dusty heads grow wide Padré, Father, or fat old man, as you will, I am afraid to succeed, afraid to fail, Tell me now, again, who I am

–Ted Berrigan

[bostonpoetryslam]

Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics – if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.

Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson for Bookslut (via bostonpoetryslam)

[mongoldenhappy]

Striking a pose at sunset

[bookabrack]

it's a beautiful day in the neeeeeighborhood (at Union Square Park)

[iridentist]

if anyone ever tells you that english isn’t ridiculous remember that the reason why we have a silent b in debt is because a group of guys got together to standardise english spelling and got to the word debt, which at the time was primarily spelled either ‘dett’ or ‘det’. so they basically went:

‘everyone speaks latin, right? so let’s put a silent b in debt. like debitum, which is latin for debt. problem solved.’

also the reason why there is a h in ghost is because when the printing press first came to england the only people trained to operate it were flemmish speaking, and they put a h after g because that’s what you do in flemmish. they put shit like ghirl and ghoose, but the only reason why ghost stuck is because people saw ‘the holy ghost’ in the bible and were like ‘well, that MUST be right’.

so yeah english is a really stupid language with some of the most ridiculous spelling

[beka-tiddalik]

Anyone telling you that English isn’t a bullshit Frankenstein language is lying.

[bookabrack]

grandkid: you were alive before gay marriage was legal? what was that like?

me: fuckin stupid

[ithelpstodream]

[thingstolovefor]

I think I found my new, favorite ice cream. #Love it!

[glowysweetfab]

They make non dairy ice creams that are bomb and its really incredible to see this as well.

[mitski-miyawakis]

every line is absolutely wild

[grownwrong]

THIS.

[overpricedvodka]

Just completely lost my shit on Facebook when my friend posted this trailer just now.

1) Jordan Peele wrote and directed a horror film. 2) The lead is a Black man and 80% of the rest of the cast is white. 3) One of the lines is “When there are too many white people around, I get nervous.” 4) The set-up is literally – LITERALLY – my worst nightmare whenever I have a white boy/girlfriend who wants take me home. 5) THIS LOOKS SO FREAKING GOOD! From both a horror movie standpoint and a social critique.

I can’t WAIT to see the reviews *slash* controversy *slash* white tears a-flowin over this one.

[fatascribunda]

Holy shit

[otherbully1]

THIS HAS ME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT OMG

[rocknrollercoaster]

[bookabrack]

drinking all the tea/playing all the games/discussing important issues

[femmefrizzle-deactivated2018072]

hands down the best review I have ever seen on goodreads

[meladoodle]

[hilariouslife]

I have been blessed by the “everybody knows shit fuck” dance

[chaotic-good-hair]

@purr-alta @anybodys-fool this is Dustin’s uncle and Chad’s estranged half-brother Sylvester. He’s no longer invited to family gatherings due to an indecent incident at Thanksgiving 4 years ago.

[pvnkle]

[celibacy]

In the middle of sex he stopped to tell me that he loved me, then he slapped my ass and said “back to business.” I’m going to marry him.

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Twue wuv.