Somewhere to Cradle my Thoughts

Vegan. Humanist. Part-Time Poet. This is a place where I can post my poetry and release all the ideas and worries that run through my mind daily. Each day we grow, learning a bit more about ourselves and our capabilities. Ask me anything you'd like.

[handsomeherbivore]

A recording of my piece "I Went to the Zoo" recorded at Back to the Grind in Riverside, CA. I compiled a bunch of photographs found on the internet to make this video. I own none of the pictures.

[handsomeherbivore]

A Villanelle.

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My Gf and I.

[guardian]

Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87

The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who unleashed the worldwide boom in Spanish literature with his novel 100 Years of Solitude, has died at the age of 87, a person close to the family has said. García Márquez had been admitted to hospital in Mexico City on 3 April with pneumonia. Full story

Pictured: Gabriel García Márquez at his house in Mexico City, 2010. Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP

[handsomeherbivore]

RIP. You have been such an inspiration to me and countless others. May your writing forever continue to inspire.

[handsomeherbivore]

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A sonnet.

[humanoidhistory]

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

—Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain, 1979

[laughingsquid]

An Amusing Mashup of Disney’s Animated Film ‘Frozen’ and AMC’s Television Show ‘Breaking Bad’

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[handsomeherbivore]

How I wish Marvel would bring Bloke back. He was one of my favorites. There are a bunch of cool gay X-men characters but he was one of the coolest.

[xombiedirge]

True Detective by Yura Shwedoff / Store

[teachingliteracy]

(by sophia_so_far)

[theearthwearsgreen]

[laughingsquid]

Pete Holmes (Rust) Shares His Negative Outlook on Life and Puppies During a ‘True Detective’ Comedy Sketch

[liberatingreality]

When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life all around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step. Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn’t to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this? Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Eckhart Tolle (via liberatingreality)

[johnbyrnedraws]

X-Men #141, page 22 by John Byrne & Terry Austin. 1981.

John shared these thoughts about Days of Future Past.

I plotted “Days of Future Past” with 2 things in mind. First, to show Chris that he was wrong, and that the Sentinels were not “lame villains”, and second to finally give the X-Men a clear cut victory — something they had not had as long as Chris had been writing the book.

Unfortunately, Chris slipped in what came to be known as the “lesbian-incest scene” (where Future Kitty “impulsively” kisses herself), which was nothing to do with what was in the pictures, and which indicated that the X-Men had failed again — they had not eliminated the Sentinel ruled future, merely shunted it off into a parallel timeline. 

The whole point behind the telepathic time travel element was that there would be no way an alternate time line could be created. Since Kate traveled through her own mind back to Kitty, there was no point at which a branch could occur. I even convinced Mark Gruenwald — Mr. Multiverse himself — that this was the case. Chris put in a line about “we may just create an alternate timeline” and, coupled with the “lesbian” scene, the story was rendered unfinished and open ended.

As you might imagine, I was furious when I saw the published version. It was at this point I demanded — and got — script approval, but before that could go into effect I hit my wall on X-MEN and left the book.

[lucasregazzi]

John Wesley Untitled, 1991 Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 55 in.

[comicquotations]

Being precious is for rewrites. I can rewrite anything. Writing remains a motherfucker I must be tricked into doing at all costs and at all times.

Matt Fraction (via comicquotations)