December 2009
89 posts
“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off” Jean Cocteau
vicissitude: a change in condition or fortune.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann
mirah; words cannot describe
Southern Spaces: An interdisciplinary journal... →
georgeanne:
baby, this town rips the bones from...
Most outrageous comments of 2009 →
ratsandcandy666:
jonathan-cunningham:
Racially charged remarks
The election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly outrageous:
Limbaugh on Obama: “We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles … because his father was black”
Jesse Lee Peterson: “I think we all agree that Barack Obama was...
“Of all the college pastimes
I discovered and indulged in,
Gossip, study,...”
– Dorothy Parker, College Drinking Days (via seductiontheory)