“Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.”

— Louis C.K. (via haitianprophet)

(Source: 30thcenturyboy, via platonicsbeforeerotics)

8:28 pm  •  9 June 2013  •  14,202 notes

“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much”

— “Steps” by Frank O’Hara

9:33 pm  •  7 June 2013  •  27 notes

(Source: utility, via wretchedoftheearth)

5:13 pm  •  2 June 2013  •  3,295 notes

“Loitering is not particularly difficult or physically demanding. It doesn’t, at first blush, appear revolutionary or even criminal. Consider that “loiter” is an intransitive verb. There is no object to it. It is all subject and subjectivity. To loiter requires simply that you stand around or sit aimlessly, without purpose, to choose a space because it happens to be in the shade, or just happens to be there. Anywhere. The key to pure loitering—the most honest embodiment of the word’s spirit—is of course to do nothing. Absolutely nothing.

But it has become bigger than that. Revolutionary. To do nothing now in the name of loitering is also to repurpose in the name of purposeless an otherwise purposed space. And we are surrounded by purposed spaces. To loiter then is a kind of zen-like appropriation, a subjective possession of objective, though often marginal space; and perhaps this is enough to make it revolutionary, enough to threaten those who are invested in the purposing or owning of such space.”

—

On Loitering by Steven Church

(via therumpus)

I do love me some loitering.

(via therumpus)

12:08 am  •  17 May 2013  •  53 notes

“

After you learn every story your mother told you about
prom caught hard in the back of her throat.

After your sister finally tells you what happened the night
you didn’t pick up the phone.

After that party your freshman year of college, when you
drank all the vodka and then threw yourself at that boy
who was so not into you.

After the picture frames, the wine glass, and your vows
lay broken on the floor.

After you remember every racist thing you said as a small
town white teenager. After you realize that no amount of
present day enlightenment will make those words unsaid.

After you accept there are things you will never know
about your father or the man you love. After you accept
that each reminds you of the other. After the night they
met and shook guitar-calloused hands, staring each other
down with matching blue eyes.

After he asks you to marry him, and you say “Not yet.”

After you find your underwear in the dark curves of a
stranger’s sheets and leave before sunrise. After you,
sobbing, confess what you’ve done, and he does not
forgive you.

There is shame. There is fear. And there is this dizzying
freedom.

”

— The Brief Two Seconds After You Ruin Everything, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)

11:50 pm  •  16 May 2013  •  1,371 notes

johndarnielle:

To the left of Nick Cave’s left foot, at the lip of the stage, looking up in reverent, fevered wonder, right cheekbone partially obscured by a power supply: it’s John Darnielle, 16 years old, loving his life for at least the next 35 minutes and probably until at least 2 a.m.

god damn it, this is everything i love

11:39 pm  •  16 May 2013  •  1,381 notes

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Flower-bathing by Ines J. , pencil + colored pencil on paper

(via andrewjacksons-jihad)

3:14 pm  •  15 May 2013  •  277 notes

“Brian: femurs that go on for miles babe”

3:04 pm  •  15 May 2013

rudethoughtsonbabyanimals:

“the women u know arent bitches u just aint about shit” 
(submitted by doctorpanda92)

12:07 am  •  15 May 2013  •  50 notes

stvincentinexile:

If you are part of a privileged group and have to constantly demand that somebody in an oppressed group say “not all (insert privileged group here) are like that” 

what you are really demanding is that they reassure you that you’re not like that and you’re not being held accountable 

which is a cowardly thing to do and also shows the great lengths you will go to in order to avoid examining your role in a toxic system

(via callingoutbigotry)

11:06 pm  •  14 May 2013  •  7,990 notes