March 2010
12 posts
Prayer for the disheartened
They say that to follow them is to follow you
But your words are nowhere to be found in the things they do
They speak for themselves, not for those who have no voice
They demand to be obeyed, when you gave us a choice
You came as a man, who loved, served and died
The church they built in your name is often hollow inside
Your life was an example, of goodness so true
Let us then be faithful,...
Roughly 90% of toothpicks come from Maine.
ohyeahfacts:
(The Essential Book of Useless Information)
It also seems that 90% of horror movies take place there, too.
That’s ‘cause Stephen King’s from Maine.
Rain Love
After the rain, she tells me.
I gaze out the window for even a hint of thunder clouds,
but all I see are pastel-blue skies.
A bully of a cumulus cloud seems to shake
a finger at me. “Not today,” he gestures.
And so we sit apart, cups of coffee
releasing for us the steam of boiling tension
that we can’t.
Airborne Cabin
She sees herself magnified
She screams at the unwilling bride
Contemplating the drop to the ground
And chooses the scream that has no sound
-Inspired by a scene in Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart
Belle & Sebastian Tuesday
Hey people, looking out the window at the city below Hey people, looking out the window, full of fun and sorrow Hey people, looking out the window at the city below Hey people, looking out the window, you’ll be gone tomorrow
-The Roller Coaster Ride
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Tomorrow, I Lomo
“Sir, sorry. Nandito na yung camera pero hindi namin pwede ibenta kasi weekend siya dumating at hindi pa naka-input sa system.”
Those were the words the attendant at Fully Booked High Street said to me last night just when I’d finally decided to buy a Fisheye 2. He was nice enough to get my name and agree to hold it for me until Wednesday, but it just really sucked that the...
Bob Gunton’s Warden Norton in “The Shawshank Redemption” is the asshole of all asshole wardens in film history.
Here's To The Nights We Felt Alive
So it’s my penultimate day at good ol’ Bates 141. Well, not really since I’m technically still employed ‘til the 12th, but tomorrow’s the last day I’m gonna be coming in, sitting at my desk and working at my laptop (I’m giving it up before the end of the day tomorrow).
I tweeted the other day that I seem to have accumulated a hell of a lot of stuff in my...
“Well-read people are less likely to be criminals.”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Then again, the scariest type of criminal is the well-read kind.
