September 2012
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Mr. Mellon had only one formula: ‘Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks,...
– Herbert Hoover
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Don’t let the fear of what is difficult paralyze you.
– Paulo Freire
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In my economic crises class on Monday someone accidentally said “credit default swamps” on two separate occasions and I have been giggling intermittently about it ever since.
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I’m listening to Your Favorite Weapon at a volume unacceptable after the summer of 2005 and sunning my ass through my bedroom window.
I’ll be twenty years old in four weeks.
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I Love Men | Thought Catalog →
I love men when they are touching themselves. When their eyes are closed and their hands are moving. I love the arch of their backs and the hard breath through their nostrils. I love their eyebrows screwing together and their chest heaving. I love their shaking thighs and the sharp spinal pop that comes with them. I love when their eyes finally open and their cheeks are dull pink. It’s gorgeous....
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I’m reading Lynn Hunt’s The Family Romance of the French Revolution right now (effectively a psychohistorical Freudian interpretation of post-rev culture), and next to a paragraph talking about the Diamond Necklace Affair of 1785, the previous owner noted, “pearl necklace?” and I can’t stop laughing. Somebody take my education away from me.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...
– Anaïs Nin
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I really want to quote Andrew Jackson Jihad in my critical pedagogy class.
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… The very violence of these political religions betrays the anxiety...
– Alan Watts
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today, I
made chapatti
danced with the cat
snuggled the cat
meowed at the cat
chatted via facebook
ate a lot of chapatti
didn’t do laundry
didn’t read for class
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Sometimes when white people say vaguely disparaging things about white people I feel like it’s a trap.