Monthly Archives: October 2015

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Most Popular | October


10 Most Popular Posts:

  1. Ode To Chicken Lyrics

  2. Gartner Hype Cycle 2015

  3. Apollo 11 Flight Dynamics [Infographic]

  4. RIP: Edwige Belmore

  5. #CosbyVsCliff

  6. #StopBullying Poster Series

  7. GoT: Jon Snow Must Die?

  8. Tom Hardy [Appreciation Post]

  9. Straight Outta…

  10. Liberté | Égalité | Beyoncé

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Quote: James Weldon Johnson


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New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face, and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments,—constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.

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― James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 1912

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BAM blog: Sankai Juku—Cosmic Dance


Butoh emerged in 1959 in Japan, instigated by Tatsumi Hijikata, whose work was a provocation to modernity in general and specifically to the Western-lead reconstruction of Japan following World War II. In his 1960 essay “Inner/Outer Material,” Hijikata describes his performances as “bodies that have maintained the crisis of primal experience.” His work was grotesque, erotic, inflammatory, and rebellious. Sometimes dancers would flail wildly. Other times, they would stand completely still—though not serenely—held in place like an insect in amber, crushed by images, sensation, and histories. Rather than a specific dance grammar, butoh utilizes images to initiate movement. The dancers transform their sense of time, space, shape, and relationship based on a string of image poetry that propels them to move.

Read the whole thing at their blog via the link below. Leave any comments about this amazing art form below.

via Sankai Juku—Cosmic Dance | BAM blog

 

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Word


This is probably the best starting point for any and all pedantic grammatical dictators. Who scold people on the regular, who hinge their entire argument with or dismissal of someone based on their language usage. Read the entire thing, this is just the punchline at the end. Follow Language Log if you like rousing conversations about linguistics too! (This particular debate is around irregardless) 

 

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

via “English is a little bit like a child” | Language Log

 

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Sometimes They Keep a Horse


Sometimes They Keep a Horse

Sometimes they keep a horse in the pen,
a stout horse beside his batten shed.
Some days that plot is empty,
fence posts stand like bitten fingers.

A stout horse beside his sway-backed shed—
the daughter’s horse, daughter’s gone;
fence posts like missing fingers.
Comes the man from town with soothing sounds and rope.

The daughter’s horse. Daughter’s gone.
A clothesline flaps with clipped wings,
whisperings and rope.
Sometimes they keep a horse beside the roses.

The clothesline flaps with clipped wings
out of a painting in lime and ochre.
See the horse? See the roses?
No. That plot is empty.

via Sometimes They Keep a Horse by Sarah Sousa | passagesnorth.com

 

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ART we LIKE: En Puntas


En Puntas (‘On Points’) is a video by Javier Perez where ballerina Amélie Segarra dancing the en pointe ballet technique (in which the performer typically dances on the points of their toes) on the tips of huge, menacing kitchen knives in an empty, darkened theater on a grand piano! Continue reading →

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Philosophy


“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”

—Sir Anthony Hopkins

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Please, Help Me Out!


If I ever say I’m going to the store on Wednesday during the day – remind me it is “Senior Discount Day” and then tell me I better not.

 

Nobody likes to elbow grandma, least of all me.