May 2009
11 posts
Contempt.
The more I begin to learn how to behave socially and the more I realize the difference it makes, the more I desire to control other people out of a sheer contempt for humanity.
April 2009
13 posts
too many burdens for this rapper to wear a back pack unless its packed with gloves, mask and a black strap lift your mattress up and that’s that
"Construe everything narrowly to avoid a direct...
Is kind of like saying, “give everyone the benefit of the doubt”.
I was waiting for a cross-town train in the london underground when it struck me that Ive been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie. So I changed my plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you, ”I need you to pretend that we are in love again” and you agreed to. I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in. The...
Hatred stems from vulnerability (ex. misogyny)
My mic check is life or death
I ain't no joke
I used to let the mic smoke - now I slam it when I’m done and make sure it’s broke.
Matt Okie: Mark Twain scholar and Stanford University professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin has argued that the character Huckleberry Finn was, in part, inspired by Twain’s encounters with a ten-year-old African-American servant. If true, what does it mean for American Literature that under its seemingly white male guise, is really a black consciousness?
Junot Diaz: [laughs] That’s the first question?
Pun for the Ages →
I’m not sure the eye-rolling in response to puns has all that much to do with them being easy or a cheap laugh. People tend to use puns in conversation and it jerks you out of whatever you were talking about, all so that you can say, “hey, look at me, I’m clever!” Or, alternatively, that you care more about this stupid joke than maintaining a conversation. This is...
Karen looked at me like I was being stupid-I never cursed, but that was something else that was about to change. The next day we locked ourselves in her bathroom and downstairs her father and uncles were bellowing at some soccer game. Well, how do you want it? she asked. I looked at the girl in the mirror for a long time. All I knew was that I didn’t want to see her ever again. I put the...
Apposite and Opposite
Two words that mean very different things, but sound similar. I was in a predicament here when I came across this word-not familiar with it-in a sentence that said, “The blank case is singularly apposite to the case at bar”. That’s all fine and well, but I was confused about what the case stood for in the first place. Normally, when you don’t know what a word means...
