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Beautiful visual storytelling! Anyone wanna write a story to go with it?
The clouds today remind me of #Denmark … low, fluffy, gray at the bottom with a beautiful blue sky above them.<3
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
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Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028
To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Jonathan for searching!
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SHOCKING, SAD AND VERY CLOSE TO HOME.
Less than a month ago, Barie Shortell, a gay Brooklynite, was brutally attacked on North 4th and Wythe. His attackers broke his nose, jaw and eye socket in what would seem like a robbery attempt…. only thing is they didn’t steal anything. Before the attack they were taunting him with derogatory anti-gay comments. The sole purpose of attack was hate.
After the attack, Barie endured 9.5 hours of surgery to reconstruct his face. He is healing now, but like many Americans he was uninsured and was left with a HUGE hospital bill. To contribute there is a benefit account set up to assist with Barie’s hospital bills, after care such as physical therapy, legal fees and other expenses related to the crime, please send donations to:
The Barie Shortell Benefit Account
Minnco Credit Union
311 Credit Union Drive
Isanti, MN 55040Here is a link to the website set up for info on the event: http://bariebenefit.com/default.aspx
For what it is worth I heard about this disgusting act at last week’s Community Board meeting. It was described as being “pretty bad”. This is an understatement (he was in surgery for over nine hours to have his face reconstructed). Please be a good neighbor and help spread the word about what happened to Mr. Shortell. Those who are able, please tender a donation to help defray medical bills and/or attend the previously mentioned fundraiser at Blackout:
Below is info on a benefit to raise money for Barie’s hospital bills.
Gay Bash: A Benefit For Barie Shortell
Wednesday, March 23 2011 starting at 7:00 p.m.
Blackout Bar
916 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Cost of admission: $35.00 (includes three hour open bar)Let’s show ‘em that we north Brooklynites take care of our own!
Additionally, a Facebook page has been created.
Please reblog and spread the word! He was brutally beaten all because of hate and ignorance… he didn’t deserve this- no one does!!! Spread love and understanding, not hate and fear!
Disgusting.
I can’t even find words to express my disappointment, anger, sadness, lack of faith in humanity.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know that Japan is reeling from a massive earthquake and tsunami. And now it’s nuclear.
The cost to Japan of this nuclear disaster is going to be monumental. Not just the clean up in Japan, like Chernobyl or 3 Mile Island before it. Not just the territory that will be unlivable for thousands of years. (Chernobyl created a Zone of Alientation 19 miles in diameter. No one is allowed in that zone). Not just the health risks. (Incidences of thryoid cancer are 500 times greater in the area post Chernobyl). But the massive public subsidies to the nuclear industry. Are all these costs taken into account when the nuclear industry tells us about the cost of nuclear power?
Last April, the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. Horrible horrible pictures and the official US govt report are here. And 11 oil workers died and over 200 million gallons of oil spewed into the Guilf. How many lives have been completely ruined in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida? How many thousands of jobs in the tourist industry, the fishing industry, etc. have been lost? How many bazillion tax dollars will be spent cleaning up the Gulf? Are all these costs taken into account when the oil industry tells us about the cost of fossil fuel?
Clean coal is a myth they’ve been perpetrating for decades. Mining coal creates huge health problems (costing tons of money) and many deaths every year. The worst in the USA was the Monongah explosion which claimed 362 lives. That was a long time ago, but the Upper Big Branch disaster was just last year. And the clean up of some of the big slag heaps and selenium contamination is also monumental. Just last week more tax dollars were spent on cleaning up abandoned mines. Are all these costs taken into account when the coal industry tells us about the cost of coal energy?
How much cleanup is needed for solar power? How many lives are lost installing solar collectors? Has anyone developed cancer because solar collectors are in their neighborhood? Or ask these same questions about wind power? How come these costs aren’t taken into account?
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I updated my food blog, so follow me! Hummus and Sandwich recipes… yum! :)
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Fun With Irony of the Day: How to play Paul Buller’s “Hipster Bingo”:
1. LOCATE HIPSTERS.2. Take out Bingo card.3. Use found items like change or bottle caps for game pieces. If hipsters are nearby this means you will be able to find plenty of pennies, guitar picks, cigarette butts, mustache combs…4. PLAY hipster bingo!
Winner gets the self-satisfaction in knowing that he/she is better than everyone else.
[laughingsquid.]
Hmmmm, this is just my sort of game. Next time I go to a Literary event and feel a little awkward while I wait for it to start, perhaps I will just bust this out and break the ice.
Maybe they will love me.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgz4ii1FEh1qz4cuyo1_250.jpg)
Fun With Irony of the Day: How to play Paul Buller’s “Hipster Bingo”:
1. LOCATE HIPSTERS.
2. Take out Bingo card.
3. Use found items like change or bottle caps for game pieces. If hipsters are nearby this means you will be able to find plenty of pennies, guitar picks, cigarette butts, mustache combs…
4. PLAY hipster bingo!Winner gets the self-satisfaction in knowing that he/she is better than everyone else.
Hmmmm, this is just my sort of game. Next time I go to a Literary event and feel a little awkward while I wait for it to start, perhaps I will just bust this out and break the ice.
Maybe they will love me.
