January 2011
20 posts
“Aww hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!”
– me right now
“Promises are easy to break; it’s the habits that are hard.”
– Tim Cameron Ryan (via noahlt)
LOL
“Angola is the future”
– Guy I met today who is a scholar on the Lusophone (portuguese-speaking) world.
Comic Sans
One of my professors makes EVERYTHING in comic sans.. the syllabus, his powerpoints, his website. I still haven’t figured out if he’s part of the 0.2% of the population that still somehow believes this to be a legitimate type face or if he has a twisted sense of humor..
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via monsieurmademoiselle)
reverso
last time I needed a catharsis I translated the entire Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock into spanish. This time I’m putting La Canción Desesperada (The Song of Despair) into english..
—
Your memory emerges from the night in which I am
The river floods the sea with obstinate lament
Abandoned as the buoys in the dawn
It’s time to part ways, oh abandoned one!
Upon my heart...
sleep, sleep tonight, and may your dreams be...
sussana chavez →
me right now
wondering why i thought it was a good idea to mix coke* and hot mint tea last night and not sleep until 5 am. maybe because i was slightly enraged by society…osea by an encounter in which some of my literary idols were referred to as “communists”.. not because this isn’t true, but it was that tone, like that communists aren’t people, too.
*-a-cola
“Si hay hombres que contienen un alma sin fronteras,
una esparcida frente de...”
– If there are men who hold a soul without borders
a soul spread along the global latitudes
covered by horizons, ships, and mountain ranges
with sand and with snow, then you, you are one of them.
Poem to the International Fallen, Miguel Hernandez, 1937
stever:
Scott Walker - The Amorous Humphrey...
