February 2012
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“In 1963, in On Revolution, Hannah Arendt wrote that “the failure of...”
– Greil Marcus, ‘The Dustbin of History in a World Made Fresh’ in The Dustbin of History
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“if freedom means doing what you want (well), don’t you gotta want something? and...”
– Ramshackle Glory, From Here to Utopia (Song for the Desperate)
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“A scholar dives into the dustbin… and, diving into the bin, the scholar...”
– Greil Marcus, ‘The Dustbin of History in a World Made Fresh’ in The Dustbin of History
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“Probably because a sense of time-marches-on only freezes history, or freezes...”
– Greil Marcus, ‘Sketch’ in The Dustbin of History
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“i was born a bitter old man who got his heart broken in catalonia, 1936. i...”
– Ramshackle Glory, Bitter Old Man
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“The worry is that our sense of history, as it takes shape in everyday culture,...”
– Greil Marcus, ‘Sketch’ in The Dustbin of History
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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via mutualaddiction)
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via girlinlondon)
Oh fucking hell, just seen my jumper as well. Apparently I was a ketchup madman last night. How is it even possible to eat that messily?
I think last night I rolled in drunk and ate pizza with ketchup on it and then typed with ketchupy fingers and now my keyboard looks like I murdered someone. At least, I hope that’s what happened, the other possibility is that I just murdered someone.
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brandnewswastikas:
Reblog if you wish Lacoste was called Lizards.
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Oh Tesco. On one hand, you’re participating in an exceptionally vicious attack on claimants and by extension the working class as a whole (in the discussion about workfare, I don’t think there’s been anywhere near enough attention paid to the fact that workfare will create a class of people with virtually no ability to take action in the workplace, who can then be pressurised...
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The 'Independent' Police Complaints Commission: An... →
Profiled in The Sunday Times on 22 January 2012, Halliday said this:
“It seems extraordinary, looking back, that I had my interview with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), where I expected a grilling for a number of hours on the Menezes case, on the same day in 2005 as I had my interview for the England hockey under-21 manager. I was in with the IPCC for about five...
I wish I could handle being in difficult or confusing situations without thinking things like “hmm, maybe I’ll get so stressed that I’ll have a massive heart attack and then I won’t have to worry about anything, it’d be brilliant.” Ho hum. :/
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“During the late sixties I felt like a fish out of water. As the rest of my...”
– John Waters, Shock Value
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“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (Interview with Playboy, 1973)
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stellikerk:
“Nothing would be more disastrous than to allow our fantasies to remain only fantasies. Nothing is more urgent than to multiply the occasions in which the desirable can impose itself on the real.” — Franklin Rosemont
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The ultras, the politics of fun, and the Egyptian... →
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller (via hyperbeam)
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