A Survey of Things

May 2011

14 posts

“Lily: “I can never go backwards. I can only go forward.”
Robin: “No, you’re wrong. You can go anywhere. The question is, where do you want to go?” —How I Met Your Mother (via quote-book)

May 30, 20112,043 notes

May 30, 20111,797 notes

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” —Isaac Asimov (via azspot)

May 29, 20114,175 notes

“[T]here was Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, celebrating civil rights in the Georgia, and chortling excitedly about the 2011 All-Star game in Arizona. In the hands of Selig, irony becomes arsenic. Thank God that Commisioner Selig was stupid enough to choose the Civil Rights Game to honor, among others, the great musician Carlos Santana. Santana was supposed to be the Latino stand-in, a smiling symbol of baseball’s diversity. And maybe, he would even play a song!

But Bud picked the wrong Latino. Carlos Santana took the microphone and said that he was representing all immigrants. Then Santana added, “The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.” In a perfect display of Gov. Nathan Deal’s Georgia, the cheers quickly turned to boos. Yes, Carlos Santana was booed on Civil Rights Day in Atlanta for talking about Civil Rights.” —Carlos Santana is Booed for Using Baseball’s Civil Rights Game to Speak Out for Civil Rights - The Nation (via sportsnetny)

May 16, 201154 notes

“Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.” —T. S. Eliot, from The Waste Land (via proustitute)

May 15, 2011393 notes

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living” —Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

May 14, 2011872 notes

May 14, 20115,669 notes

#Parks and Rec #Things that are awesome

“Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn’t masturbated already? Like, do you really think there’s anything in that scene that this chick hasn’t already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I’m telling you, man, I’m not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates.” —- Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings. (via fmnst)

May 14, 2011255 notes

May 11, 2011132 notes

“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“… when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.” —Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful) (via alienshexv) (via newwavefeminism)

May 11, 201116,549 notes

#truth

statedept:

When you improve the life of a mother, you’re improving the lives of her family & you are strengthening the community. http://go.usa.gov/buA

May 8, 201131 notes

“I’m told that when staffers catch themselves doing this [the walk and talk] today in the Obama administration, they high-five and say, “We just ‘West Winged.’” —Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography (via shemadehimwaffles)

May 7, 2011226 notes

May 6, 2011142 notes

#architecture #design #kahn

May 5, 2011