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darksilenceinsuburbia:

N.S. David.

I Was Once A Boy, 2012.

Carried On Fog Exorcised Out The Lips, 2011.

http://nsdavid.livejournal.com/

Jun 19
breakingnews:

Ecuador says Wikileaks founder seeking asylum at its London embassy
AP: “Ecuador’s foreign minister says Wilikeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino says Ecuador is weighing the request.”
Photo: AP /Kirsty Wigglesworth

breakingnews:

Ecuador says Wikileaks founder seeking asylum at its London embassy

AP: “Ecuador’s foreign minister says Wilikeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino says Ecuador is weighing the request.”

Photo: AP /Kirsty Wigglesworth

Jun 13
lgbtqgmh:

[The first person I came out to was Mickey Mouse. I was twelve. I quietly asked him if he would still love me if I liked girls.
It took a moment but he nodded and held me close for a photo. I cry every time I look at it]

lgbtqgmh:

[The first person I came out to was Mickey Mouse. I was twelve. I quietly asked him if he would still love me if I liked girls.

It took a moment but he nodded and held me close for a photo. I cry every time I look at it]

Jun 10

unhistorical:

June 10, 1819: Gustave Courbet is born.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. 

Jun 09

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Jun 07

ray

today we lost someone very important to the history of contemporary modernist sci-fi writing. Ray Bradbury died. he was a writer of great importance. the beauty in his work and the prolific lessons set in a surrealistic landscape brought many people to a new way of thinking and approaching the expression of our society and way our society is going. Fahrenheit 451 is a looming reality. Lets take his philosophies to heart. we need them now more then ever. rest in the fantastic and beauty of your own eternal landscape.

Jun 06

unhistorical:

June 6, 2012: Ray Bradbury dies at 91.

The great American author (best known for his science-fiction works) of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and hundreds of other novels, short stories, plays, passed away today after “a lengthy illness”. The obituary that appeared in The New York Times calls him “the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream”. Following Bradbury’s death, Steven Spielberg said of the author: “In the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal”; President Obama remarked that “his gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world”. 

More quotes from Bradbury and from his works:

Books were only one type of receptacle where we started a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical about them at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment.

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.

Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.

- Fahrenheit 451

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

- The Martian Chronicles

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

Dandelion Wine

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

“The Meadow”

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

Jun 02

anon

one thing i dont understand about anonymous. the masks. It is a unifying image giving a defining rhetoric for all who see it and a presence of its own history. but if we are to rise up and claim unison of 99% let our faces show. i want the government to look me in the eyes and bow in shame for its own crimes against society. why not make ourselves known? let us all unite and make sure our individuality is also heard. we must be “we the people”. the masks hide us in a unifying idea. we are hidden enough. let us be seen. our eyes are windows into our cores. for truth and honesty and beauty as well as honor.

May 24
darksilenceinsuburbia:

Jeff Simpson. Faerie.