February 2012
“Hours later, the cat was asleep, and Erin lay next to it, her eyes half-closed....”
– Dave Eggers, from “Quiet” in How We Are Hungry
Yes. And that feeling of being in bed when you’re 7 and knowing there’s a light on downstairs and you know that your parents are down there washing dishes or talking or watching late night TV.
(via scout)
January 2012
“You sent me a great shirt—I wear it in the house…but not outside because I don’t...”
– In a letter from Bob Dylan to Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. (via sincerelykimbui)
December 2011
“Through deliberate and conscious legal formulations predicated on the...”
– Uri Davis and Walter Lehn…working on my paper on the Israeli-Palestinian water conflict
November 2011
Watchbitchdontcallmenoboots:
GOP Roundup: Janeane Garofalo takes on the double standard of Republican rhetoric
via Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Current TV)
“Four years ago, I’d started receiving group emails from the Tran Family,...”
– We’re pretty sure James West has the craziest Thanksgiving story of anyone on the MoJo masthead. You’ll want to watch this.
Happy Thanksgiving, people.
(via motherjones)
“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos
)
Journal Entry: "Names and Dates and Times"
The shoddy brown building that the bakery is in is deceitful. It suggests a bland confectionary, a slipping business venture that will soon be vacated. It is not the taupe neutral brown of dental offices or law firms that safely convey whispers of economic stability, where an influx of money is taken for granted, and the art is bought in bulk from mail order catalogs. The chipping dark mocha of...