January 2010
16 posts
Black Elk don't give a good gawd-damn!
“We were very hungry because we had not eaten anything since early morning, so we peeped into the tepees until we saw where there was a pot with papa [dried meat] cooked in it. We sat down in there and began to eat. While we were doing this, the soldiers shot at the tepee, and a bullet struck right between Red Crow and me. It threw dust in the soup, but we kept right on eating until we had...
“Actually, you’re retarded.” Chip explained. I rolled my eyes. “It’s true!” he went on, lighting a cigarette. “We’ve been hiding it from you. For kicks. Everyone of us has been pretending to be retarded too, so you couldn’t tell.”
“Sure,” I scoffed. “And so everyone on TV, the internet, in books-“
Chip smiled....
Billygruff
We fed the kid easter grass. It isn’t doing well. It has grown bleary-eyed and crazy, it keeps chomping at what isn’t there. All night it stays up bleating and pleading and beating its head against the floor of the basement. We think it hates the concrete.
Anonymous asked: If you could have any name, what would it be?
Anonymous asked: Draw yourself as a Pokemon? This is a question because it ends with a question mark?
World Geography Blows
But at least it makes for doodlin’ time! (Also, “Daditude.”)
No One Will Use These
Say Stuff
Ask stuff
but it’d be rude to pretend they aren’t there
FWOOM
Was the sound in Charles’s head, but it was not a single exhalation, more of a droning sound with far, far more Os, as he gazed at the red light from his apartment window and knew that every weight would be blackening, curling up, evaporating and drifting far away on a smoky black highway. He sighed. A fireman in a heavy coat breathing from a steel cage offered him a cup of coffee and a...
Other than a human
an elephant is the only creature to anticipate death’s sting. Other creatures will avoid death, will exhibit the flight-or-fight instinct, but it is only the elephant who mourns, who peers quietly over the bones of the fallen, who knows enough to link herself with the-thing-that-has-stopped. She will try to lift a fallen daughter, refusing death, resisting it. She will even, spying a human,...
Interesting Quote About "Learning How to Learn"
kateybasye:
standubin:
The following quote is attributed to John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends and recenlty “China’s Megatrends.”
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
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Posted via web from Stan...
In a future sideways from this one,
The emotional membrane broke and in a far-off corner of Disney Land there squatted the Prince and Princess breeding pits, wherein young lads and young lassies would be tossed into the goopy jaws of peril, and their prince in shining armor or damsel in distress would manifest and be with them forever.
As word caught on, this caused a bottleneck. There was not enough time to make damsels and...
"It's too much!"
you would scream if your mouth still worked. A lightning bolt, zagged between the lobes of your brain, surrounded by inert archives of grey neurons. Soggy dead meatchinery, clogged to a gasp, looming over the last twitch of self writhing between massive sheets of wetware, knowing only dimly what it is, knowing dimly one last protocol: Do. Not. Stop.
If another screw falls loose there will be...
Happy New Year!
Every year as the air turns salty and the sky cracks open in a redgreen chemical blaze, my thoughts turn back to past cold seasons on The Compound. Times were different then, youngsters. The world was a simple place, a warm place.
I remember the howling of the Skinmen as they ambled round The Compound, leaving their flakes behind as they wandered, blind. Pa used to round them up with razorwire...