[austinkleon]

This is why Kafka said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” or why Shelley remembers “the hour which burst / My spirit’s sleep.” The fact is, our spirit has a tendency to slumber and we constantly need awakenings, which is what art does and what a liberal education focused on the humanities should do.

William Deresiewicz (via austinkleon)

[more-one-star-reviews-blog]

“I feel like it promotes dealing with poor self esteem by binge eating until you morph into what ‘society’ says is beautiful.”

[tea-and]

Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’

After years of devastating drought, ultra-wealthy Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., faces water rationing, but residents feel aggrieved. If you can pay the price for more water, they argue, you should get it.

“What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”

People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media.

Are these seriously not from The Onion?

:(

[tea-and]

[tea-and]

影子 on Flickr.

shadow / reflection

just drifting by

[kingsoftomorrow]

Everyone I come across in cages they bought they think of me and my wandering but I’m never what they thought got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts I’m alive. Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere underneath my being is a road that disappeared late at night I hear the trees they’re singing with the dead overhead.

After hiking through the Australia Alps, I recorded this on an Autumn day in a valley. Guaranteed. Download the song and album for free here: http://joshuaeversham.bandcamp.com/

[hangover-heartburn]

If you missed Emily Diana Ruth & Charlie McDonnell’s mini-film festival at VidCon, INTERMIX, you missed this adorable and articulate short film. Watch Irene Lee, Girl Detective right now. 

[marykatewiles]

Yeah Yulin! And Sean!

[yulinkuang]

Aww, I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing the Irene Lee love! (I just posted a VidCon video about this panel!)

[adaptacija]

I’m not exactly safe [in Uganda], but to a certain extent I’m safe because I stand my ground. I’m not going to change out of fear, I’m not going to run away from the country, and the fact that you guys know about me is a form of protection for me. I look over my shoulder every day, but there’s no other place I’d rather be than be there and make sure that the safety I need actually happens in the country.

Transgender Ugandan Activist Pepe Julian Onziema, in his interview with John Oliver for Last Week Tonight

(via adaptacija)

Part I and Part II of the interview. Definitely worth watching.

(Start from 10:40 of Part I to skip to the interviews.)

[tea-and]

The possibilities of a blank slate on Flickr.

Attacking the dead.

[frrrst-deactivated20220926]

Walking Contest (Daniel Koren)

[tea-and]

Welcome, dear change!

untitled on Flickr.

[composersdoingnormalshit]

Leonard Bernstein giving a smooch to Lukas Foss.

[composersdoingnormalshit]

Antonín Dvořák feeding some pigeons.

[tea-and]

After over a year of pure laziness, I finally have access to my photos from Taiwan. With that comes all of the Engrish.

I could really go for some "delicious high class lemon cake wonderful" right now, or some nonsensical love poetry on my lunch box.

[tea-and]

Sitting with the mountains on Flickr.

[tea-and]

We wander through the shaded valleys and tiptoe over the mountaintops of our childhood wonders.

[tea-and]

Perhaps balancing the joys of escapism with the awareness of deception was the whole point of why we read novels, but I was never able to successfully manage this simultaneous suspension of the real and the fictive. Maybe you just needed to be an adult in order to perform this high-wire act of believing and not-believing at the same time.

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet