March 2009
16 posts
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
How astonishing it is what language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient tongue has no words for endearment....
"Saber-toothed Tiger" - T-shirt by Tobias Fonseca →
Eee! This is the coolest shirt ever. Combining my passions of Star Wars and funny t-shirts with animals on them.
“I do my best, but I’m made of mistakes.”
– Neko Case — “I’m An Animal”
“You think you hit bottom, and it can always go lower,” said Republican pollster...”
– For GOP: all pain, no gain
This quote from this article (on how a mere 25% of Americans support the Repubican Party), just goes to show that they don’t really want anything good for America. Just banking on the hope that Obama will not do some good. Why would you outright want a president to...
Bloop. Bloop. Bloop. Biiiiiing. x1000
The other day, a car alarm went off in our neighborhood for like an hour. The same sound over and over until I wanted to smash its windows with a proper English cricket bat.
It got me thinking about this article I read a while back about noise pollution in the oceans and how whales and dolphins are becoming terribly threatened by it. In December, environmentalists and government reps gathered for...
“Ebony and Ivory. No more racism now. That one’s done.”
– Ricky Gervais
