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Thu, 31 May 2012 13:29:04 -0700

On the point of relationships.

Thu, 31 May 2012 13:25:01 -0700

What’s the point of relationships? If the initial high is temporary and then you stick together until you hate each other so much that you cheat or break up, then what’s the point? Is there ever a time when people find someone they really love?

The human condition is a fun ride, but don’t ever forget that we’re all just a bunch of talking meat wrapped around a sack of warm shit programmed to eat, sleep, and fuck.

We’re social animals with a biological imperative to reproduce. That’s it. That’s all. Love is a neurochemical response with a shelf life long enough to perpetuate the species.

And hey, I don’t wanna hear you complaining about it either, because quite frankly, you’re one lucky motherfucker to have air in your lungs and the opportunity to be confused by it at all.

The last breath you just took is one more than a hundred billion human beings who came before you will ever get to take again, and one day, the last breath you just took will be the last breath you’ll ever take.

That day is the point of relationships, that day when you cease to fucking exist, because it’s guaranteed, my friend. This shit all ends, so cram as much love, joy, and shout-it-from-the-rooftops happiness as you possibly can into whatever time you can make for yourself.

Meet as many interesting people as you can. Make as many friends as you can. Fall in love as many times as you can. Fuck if it hurts sometimes. You’re one of the lucky ones who’s still breathing.

All we have in this world is relationships with other people. At this stage in our evolution, nothing else matters.

ok is it just me or is it impossible to download music off Tumblr now, even with the extension?

Thu, 31 May 2012 01:02:00 -0700

ok is it just me or is it impossible to download music off Tumblr now, even with the extension?

ambrosialsalvation: digging through the pow wow backup...

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:34:09 -0700

ambrosialsalvation:

digging through the pow wow backup drive

it’s really quite jarring looking at something that you know used to exist but no longer does. change is inevitable, but being reminded of the past can be surreal

aseaofquotes: Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:23:27 -0700

aseaofquotes:

Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline

When a creepy guy tries to hit on me and my friend at the same time and we just pretend we're lesbians until he goes away

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:22:23 -0700

whatshouldbetchescallme:

Considered doing this with Steph until someone told us the guy might stay and watch x____x

Sadi Gali + Party Rock Anthem Bollywood sorry Punjabi...

Wed, 30 May 2012 01:22:42 -0700

Sadi Gali + Party Rock Anthem

~~Bollywood~~ sorry Punjabi eargasm.

Twindians listen to this.

SO. BEAUTIFUL. NOT EVEN ALL OF MY BOOKS, THESE ARE ONLY ONES OF...

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:48:00 -0700

SO. BEAUTIFUL.

NOT EVEN ALL OF MY BOOKS, THESE ARE ONLY ONES OF LITERARY MERIT.

TEARS OF JOY.

Summer lovin'

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:24:31 -0700

I’ve met more people in my neighborhood in the past two weeks than in all my 13 years of living in Arcadia.

Is that weird?

Incidentally, all these relationships were made while I was walking my dog. The first is a family of four up the street on Volante, and we now walk with their two sons, Adam and Jason, and dog named Cooper regularly. The second is a woman named Donna who I talked to for like an hour and a half, I don’t even know how. The third is another family of four down Altura with a German Shepard named Gunner, who walks alongside their golf cart obediently. And finally, a middle-schooler named Lindsey who also lives on my street.

Being around these middle-schoolers is bizarre. It’s like when Aang is dreaming and watching himself in the Avatar state but realizing that he’s looking at himself. I feel like I’m seeing myself when I talk to them, or at least what I used to be.

Now I’ve never been one to live in the past, mostly because I focus on the now, but all of a sudden I could remember so vividly what middle school was like for me. And people say that you only remember the bad but every memory brings a smile to my face.

But I won’t sigh and think oh, to be a kid again. I’m glad I’m where I am, shitty GPA and all (the truth comes out eventually). Growing up in Arcadia was such a good experience for me, and I’m so glad these kids are having just as much fun as I did.

Here’s to many more nights of meeting Arcadia.

What the fucking fuck is this. 2:10 reminds me of Brazil, but I...

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:02:06 -0700

What the fucking fuck is this.

2:10 reminds me of Brazil, but I predict that this movie will be 1/10th as good.

UGH This dress is gorgeous

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:36:04 -0700

UGH This dress is gorgeous

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Tue, 29 May 2012 21:35:44 -0700

"I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 01:35:45 -0700

“I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. To talk for hours and about what’s really important in life.”

- (via selfinspiration)

olivejuiceleah: hellochello: Disney movies condensed into a...

Tue, 29 May 2012 01:35:27 -0700

The Lion King

The Little Mermaid

Hercules

Aladdin

Beauty and the Beast

Pocahontas

Bambi

Alice in Wonderland

olivejuiceleah:

hellochello: Disney movies condensed into a single image.

This is so beautiful.

Week of May 28: Itinerary

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:43:46 -0700

Monday: Lucky Boys breakfast burritos with Colin and either hiking or the beach, if I’m persuasive enough.

Tuesday: Work

Wednesday: Work

Thursday: Downtown + work

Friday: DISNEYLAND WITH THE FAM, BITCHES + phone conference (cry)

Misc: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Dante’s Purgatorio, Kelly’s birthday (shit ok wrap her expensive-ass gift before Saturday)

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Sun, 27 May 2012 22:34:40 -0700

stfuconservatives: think-progress: Plastic bags in L.A.: 2012...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:26:37 -0700

stfuconservatives:

think-progress:

Plastic bags in L.A.: 2012 (2.7 billion), 2014 (ZERO)

Source

Personally, I’m thrilled. I bring my reusable bags almost everywhere, and I’d be even more diligent about it if I knew there weren’t going to be any plastic ones.

Hopefully this will encourage scientists to develop an alternative that is as efficient and also biodegradable.

(And lighter than paper bags — that’s the reason most stores don’t use them; they’re more expensive to ship. Also the glue that holds the handles on attracts cockroaches. I worked at a grocery store in high school.)

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Sat, 26 May 2012 21:21:38 -0700

neverendingreality: LOOOOOOOOL

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:18:51 -0700

neverendingreality:

LOOOOOOOOL

amandaonwriting: The 42 Best Lines from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1. There is a theory...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:16:54 -0700

amandaonwriting:

The 42 Best Lines from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

2. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

3. “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,” Ford muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”

4. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

5. “You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.”
“Why, what did she tell you?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t listen.”

6. “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

7. “Funny,” he intoned funereally, “how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

8. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

9. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

10. Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

11. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.

12. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.

13. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the ‘Star Spangled Banner’, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

14. The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

15. “Listen, three eyes,” he said, “don’t you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.”

16. “Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

17. Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.

18. The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

19. “Shee, you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off.”

20. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

21. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm’s way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another.

22. Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.

23. It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

24. “Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”

25. In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

26. He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.

27. “He was staring at the instruments with the air of one who is trying to convert Fahrenheit to centigrade in his head while his house is burning down.”

28. There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.

29. “You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.”
“Er, five,” said the mattress.
“Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?”

30. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

31. It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

32. He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

33. Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow, without which their conversation would probably have got very monotonous. So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy snow, brittle snow, snow that came in flurries, snow that came in drifts, snow that came in on the bottom of your neighbor’s boots all over your nice clean igloo floor, the snows of winter, the snows of spring, the snows you remember from your childhood that were so much better than any of your modern snow, fine snow, feathery snow, hill snow, valley snow, snow that falls in the morning, snow that falls at night, snow that falls all of a sudden just when you were going out fishing, and snow that despite all your efforts to train them, the huskies have pissed on.

34. The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying “And another thing…” twenty minutes after admitting he’s lost the argument.

35. He was wrong to think he could now forget that the big, hard, oily, dirty, rainbow-hung Earth on which he lived was a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot lost in the unimaginable infinity of the Universe.

36. “It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”

37. “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

38. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

39. Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

40. All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it’s pretty damn complicated in the first place.

41. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

42. Don’t Panic.

By Jeff O’Neal, the editor of Book Riot. Follow him on Twitter: @readingape

42, oh yes.