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Warren Ellis' Notebook: Okay. Someone asked me how I feel about writing fiction in a world...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0400

Warren Ellis' Notebook: Okay. Someone asked me how I feel about writing fiction in a world...:

warrenellis:

Okay. Someone asked me how I feel about writing fiction in a world that still needs actual activism and hands-on work to make life better. They said something similar to, “I get pulled away from writing fiction because I feel guilty for not making tangible benefit to the world. Isn’t fiction just…

I get these too, sometimes.

And they’re why I keep doing it, even when the paychecks are months late and the words don’t flow easily, or at all.

Because writing seems to be the most useful thing I can do in the world.

“All that you can do will be worth almost nothing, but it is essential that you do it.”
I’ve seen several wordings of this Gandhi quote, most commonly:
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
We never know how we affect other lives, in ways we may never see. Do what you are good at and hopefully enjoy doing- your writing can leave footprints in readers’ minds, maybe cause them to see the world a little differently…

avidoatlion: lifemocker: thejordanator: An expertly done...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:35:15 -0400

avidoatlion:

lifemocker:

thejordanator:

An expertly done three point turn

Weren’t expecting that house

#I have never seen someone nope that hard before

Wondering what the Japanese equivalents of the obscenities crossing my mind are…

theremina: Scarlett Johannson as Buster Keaton by Tim...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:29:58 -0400

theremina:

Scarlett Johannson as Buster Keaton by Tim Walker

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, photographed by ?

Philip Seymour Hoffman by Sharon Suh

Ewan McGreggor by David LaChappelle

James Franco by Terry Richardson

Blondie by Txema Yeste

(via sunoxy)

Ok, really curious about the story behind Ewan’s photo- and my, how Mr. Gordon-Levett has grown up since 3rd Rock…

Unfuck Your Habitat: Emergency cleaning: Unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:52:22 -0400

Unfuck Your Habitat: Emergency cleaning: Unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible:

unfuckyourhabitat:

So, your landlord/parent/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.

Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark…

Game plan to UFYH in a hurry!

laziestgirlintown: randpenguin: Now with random penguin:...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:24:13 -0500

laziestgirlintown:

randpenguin:

Now with random penguin: Hammered by Elizabeth Bear

New blog is awesome: Random Penguin. (Of course they should be called Random Penguin! Or possibly Random Penguin House.)

I was *wondering* if that was an unusual announcement of doing business with that publisher! ;)

Like I could resist both Rachel AND chemistry! (via TumbleOn)

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:30:50 -0500

Like I could resist both Rachel AND chemistry!

(via TumbleOn)

rachelmaddowheygirl: HGRM doesn’t condone violence against...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:27:40 -0500

rachelmaddowheygirl:

HGRM doesn’t condone violence against Republicans. Even though they definitely condone violence against us.

(via TumbleOn)

addelburgh: tallest seagull

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:58:04 -0500

addelburgh:

tallest seagull

betype: Typography Read More

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:56:03 -0500

betype:

Typography

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What happens when...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:52:59 -0500

What happens when...:

you were a jerk in your last lifetime…

Two pomodoros later: (Yes, a little screwed-itude remains, but...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:46:40 -0500

Two pomodoros later:

(Yes, a little screwed-itude remains, but I wanted to not procrastinate for once)

Before unfucking the bathroom sink:

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:41:48 -0500

Before unfucking the bathroom sink:

"Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:39:12 -0500

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Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your friendship.

If you had a friend dealing with the same things, you wouldn’t berate that person, say, ‘You’re not working hard enough,’ ‘You suck,’ or ‘You’re not as good as [whomever].’ You’d offer your friend encouragement, you’d try to point out all the things your friend did right, and how much progress your friend had made.

You should do no less for yourself.

Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because *you are listening.*

”

- Pat Cadigan, author (via ellenkushner)
Wow, that’s close to home…

eaweatherfield: In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:36:45 -0500

eaweatherfield:

In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.

In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe, the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”

Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”

Whoa.

matociquala: http://io9.com/5986549/lovely-medical-illustration-...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:35:13 -0500

matociquala:

http://io9.com/5986549/lovely-medical-illustration-of-the-human-skull-painted-directly-on-a-human-head

Amazing…

rj-anderson: jesskhoury: OMG THIS FROG IT’S LIKE A SQUEAKY...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:32:52 -0500

rj-anderson:

jesskhoury:

OMG THIS FROG IT’S LIKE A SQUEAKY TOY

I just spent the entire thirty seconds making this face:

One if the defining characters of the genus _Breviceps_ is adorability… :D

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:43:39 -0500

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why.”

- Mark Twain (via freecocaine)

smithsonianmag: theatlantic: Apartments So Small They Can Only...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:36:25 -0500

smithsonianmag:

theatlantic:

Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above

In crazy dense Hong Kong, 100,000 of the city’s laborers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet.

See more. [Images: Society for Community Organization]

Are micro apartments the future of urban living?

Man, these would be some helluva #ufyh projects!

punkstormrocks: mothershiprenton: Mohawk Storm brings the...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:32:06 -0500

punkstormrocks:

mothershiprenton:

Mohawk Storm brings the thunder.

This sort of made my entire day.

unfuckyourhabitat: islandofmisfitme: In honor of UFYH LOVE...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:27:22 -0500

unfuckyourhabitat:

islandofmisfitme:

In honor of UFYH

LOVE IT.

Great combo of charming art and whack-you-with-the-clue-by-four text! #ufyh