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Voyager

Sometimes I feel lost. Not lost like keys that will eventually be found, but like the Voyager I probe, sailing into a world of lost no other man made object has ever experienced. That no one can ever bring me back, and unless the laws of the universe are overthrown, I will just float farther away until one day any ability to connect to humanity cannot fully cross the ineffable chasm that separates me.

3 months ago

January 29, 2013
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The writer Julian Barnes, considering mourning, once said, “It hurts just as much as it is worth.” In fact, it was a friend of his who wrote the line in a letter of condolence, and Julian told it to my husband, who told it to me. For months afterward these words stuck with both of us, so clear and so brutal. It hurts just as much as it is worth. What an arrangement. Why would anyone accept such a crazy deal? Surely if we were sane and reasonable we would every time choose a pleasure over a joy, as animals themselves sensibly do. The end of a pleasure brings no great harm to anyone, after all, and can always be replaced with another of more or less equal worth.
Joy by Zadie Smith in The New York Review of Books

5 months ago

December 18, 2012
photo champagne-campaign:

fullcredit:

Joe Biden Goes to Costco
This story is my everything.

good to know our VP has the same reaction as the rest of us when shopping at costco: oh shit, that added up fast.

Hope those Beverly Cleary bulk box sets contain The Mouse & the Motorcycle.  Joe will love that one.

champagne-campaign:

fullcredit:

Joe Biden Goes to Costco

This story is my everything.

good to know our VP has the same reaction as the rest of us when shopping at costco: oh shit, that added up fast.

Hope those Beverly Cleary bulk box sets contain The Mouse & the Motorcycle.  Joe will love that one.

5 months ago

November 29, 2012
reblogged via champagne-campaign
photo drinkyourjuice:

Happy Endings is the funniest show on TV.

So excited for this show to be part of my life again.  It’s like Friends if it were written by the Arrested Development writers.

drinkyourjuice:

Happy Endings is the funniest show on TV.

So excited for this show to be part of my life again.  It’s like Friends if it were written by the Arrested Development writers.

7 months ago

October 23, 2012
reblogged via christinefriar
photo madelineschichtel:

Glen Lake, 2008

I’ve lived in the Mitten all my life and this may be the most beautiful photo I’ve seen of it.

madelineschichtel:

Glen Lake, 2008

I’ve lived in the Mitten all my life and this may be the most beautiful photo I’ve seen of it.

8 months ago

September 2, 2012
reblogged via madelineschichtel
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chriskelly:

If you have an extra buck, consider donating to this project. I have nothing to do with it, but I stumbled across it, and it sounds special. 

Here’s a snippet from the Kickstarter pager. But feel free to watch the above video and donate if you want. Less than one day left! 

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“Zeno Documentary” (working title) is a feature length documentary about a camp for people with and without disabilities that gathers in Los Angeles once a year to make an original narrative film. This year the Zeno gang made a Western film. This documentary is about the making of that Western.

In “Zeno Documentary” we explore the close friendships that are made between people living with and without disabilities. People of all ages and abilities, including people with Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Autism, Cognitive Delay, Williams Syndrome and Spina Bifida, come together to take part in the filmmaking process at the Zeno Mountain Farm Film Camp. At the camp, they get the chance to do amazing activities that would otherwise be impossible to do without assistance. They get the opportunity to experience and discover the creative and adventurous sides of their lives. 

Over the course of camp, we documented the campers and counselors as they worked together as cast and crew to make “Bulletproof”, a Western film shot on location around Southern California. At the camp, one camper is paired with one counselor. The “Zeno Documentary” examines the friendship and love that develops out of these relationships, as they work together to create a film in an environment where no one is treated as if he or she has a disability. 

We are asking for money to help us finish our documentary film. Every dollar helps and takes us one step closer to reaching our goal.”

Definitely check this out and donate if you have a few extra dollars to spare.  Well worth giving up a fancy Starbucks coffee for a day to help out such a great project.

9 months ago

August 9, 2012
reblogged via chriskelly
photo Caught the Mayer Hawthorne concert today at lunch in Ann Arbor.  Rain forced it into the Michigan Theater but it rocked anyway.

Caught the Mayer Hawthorne concert today at lunch in Ann Arbor.  Rain forced it into the Michigan Theater but it rocked anyway.

10 months ago

July 26, 2012
photo whitewhine:

Double-great because of his profile picture

Triple great due to the first comment’s name.

whitewhine:

Double-great because of his profile picture

Triple great due to the first comment’s name.

11 months ago

June 25, 2012
reblogged via whitewhine
photo What a great weekend!  One of my best friends got married in Detroit and I’m so happy for her and her new husband.  I was going to post one of the 9 million photos my friends and I took throughout the weekend (and I might later) but then the photographer posted this photo and I couldn’t think of anything that better summed up Taryn than this photo (well unless she was also wearing a Michigan football jersey).
Also, the best thing about smart, hard-working friends earning fancy titles is that “First Lieutenant and Doctor Lamie” sounds like a super impressive power couple already.

What a great weekend!  One of my best friends got married in Detroit and I’m so happy for her and her new husband.  I was going to post one of the 9 million photos my friends and I took throughout the weekend (and I might later) but then the photographer posted this photo and I couldn’t think of anything that better summed up Taryn than this photo (well unless she was also wearing a Michigan football jersey).

Also, the best thing about smart, hard-working friends earning fancy titles is that “First Lieutenant and Doctor Lamie” sounds like a super impressive power couple already.

11 months ago

June 4, 2012
photo cockenblog:

fuckyounofuckme:

mykicks:

Reminder that Romney’s portrait as governor of Massachusetts is hilarious.

Tatum: “Is that a picture of Brittany Murphy?” 

Mitt Romney, Brittany Murphy’s biggest fan.

Well Uptown Girls is based on Mitt’s twenties.

cockenblog:

fuckyounofuckme:

mykicks:

Reminder that Romney’s portrait as governor of Massachusetts is hilarious.

Tatum: “Is that a picture of Brittany Murphy?” 

Mitt Romney, Brittany Murphy’s biggest fan.

Well Uptown Girls is based on Mitt’s twenties.

11 months ago

May 31, 2012
reblogged via cockenblog