March 2012
99 posts
February 2012
275 posts
WatchCheck out this sick video I took on my phone of my Aunt Lydia singing Motherless Child in house slave attire. She gave me the chills.
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Watchsome guy made a video for Asheville in the style of the intro to Portlandia
someone stole my record crate. not my records. they put my records on my desk. but the wawa milk crate that i had them in is missing as hell.
set your arms down / warpaint
the blues
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"how can you live without all the answers?"
i just woke up from a dream in which i was at what i think was a birthday party for my unborn niece. in my dream people kept coming to the party and handing their babies to me, and i was struggling to hold three at once but they kept slipping, and while i was carrying them they got even smaller and so i had them in some contraption (not dissimilar to a cup carrier from dunkin donuts) and i had a...
“it’s twister for vampires”
Watchi can’t tell if my cat thinks i am really great or really dirty
i finished reservation blues
i have spent a lot of my life feeling ashamed and less-than and insecure and obligated to redeem myself or prove something to people for being brown and being the way that i am. i have spent a lot of my life being angry for feeling that way. i grew up in a black neighborhood in a white town. i have always been eccentric and i have always been a reader. when i went outside in my neighborhood, the...
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s... →
wolfmama:
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and...
my boss denied my vacation hours for asheville/texas and so tomorrow i am putting in my two weeks notice and it is going to feel so great. that place has been sucking me dry. i hope the farm/hostel in new mexico likes the natal chart they requested of me, because they are my back up plan and i like them so much.
hereiswhereikeepthem:
I am confused about being a human.
Make me a sandstorm, a streetlamp, a sidewalk. Something, anything, nothing. I put myself here, I pry myself out. Pull me out! I’m within. I’m without.
I am confused about being a body. Make me a savior, a songstress, a song. O, Stars, Stars, make me something! Something or anything, nothing at all.
i am confused about being a human
http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/ →
this is really sweet and nice and cool
