Other Sides of a Nobody

A little of this, a little of that, and some of the other. A repository for things I like but don’t include in my main blog—politics, music, real Japan, humor, history, articles, photographs, GIFs, and assorted nonsense, impertinence, and curiosities. An odd little magazine.

[journalofanobody]

“We’ve got nothing to do, but wait for tomorrow. And see if we’re remembered … or forgotten.”

— Tennessee Williams, from Baby Doll, Baby Doll & Tiger Tail: A Screenplay and Play (New Directions, 1991)

[journalofanobody]

The 15 second rule. What else might it work with?

[othersidesofnobody]

How Quentin Tarantino Uses Subtext in Screenwriting | No Film School

How Quentin Tarantino Uses Subtext in Screenwriting | No Film School https://share.google/8eguzSqY0dRHQZfok

“You’ve done the writer work. You’ve got to do the director work.”

[othersidesofnobody]

Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbers | Live Science

Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbers | Live Science https://share.google/VSUVt9Xh2BcgumrD0

'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a que

[aerizusa]

This pine tree by the rock must have its memories too: after a thousand years, see how its branches lean towards the ground.

— Ono no Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani)

[dabiconcordia]

"I cannot remember any of the things that ware on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing" said Toad.

[awesomepeoplereading]

Moe reads.

[mapsontheweb]

Countries which Trump has threatened or invaded

(by amazing__maps/instagram)

[cosmonautroger]

Björk, 1982

[endaskaj]

you took a vow of celibacy but your roommate did not…✨

[endaskaj]

It came too fast, struck like the first summer storm. Drowned a still-pure soul in rain. Before she could turn around, childhood years were gone — no goodbye. No one asked if she was ready. Growing up doesn’t wait.

[endaskaj]

Almost

I keep mistaking preparation

for progress.

Every fresh start

leaves the same stain.

I am very good

at becoming someone

who was almost something.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[grickle14]

OMG.

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

The embalmed body of Maximilian I of Mexico, photographed by François Aubert shortly after his execution by firing squad in 1867.

[thatsbelievable]

[bgv-1967]

[bgv-1967]