January 2009
Indian Love Poem of the Day
SHE TOUCHES HIM Very early one morning she touches him on an unknown planet in the seventh heaven of the senses in the strange light of desire. She touches him like a heavy cloud like the stalled wind like holy fire. She touches him as though He is God on the sixth day of Creation who must pass through her and destroy her to re-create her. Very early one morning she touches the Mayavi, the elusive...
Indian Love Poem of the Day
DROWNING Let the Love God aim his arrows at me. I don’t care. Let him attack me, with his flag unfurled. I’ll tell the truth, loud and clear. Whenever that wide-eyed girl looks at me, there’s a flood: the lotuses are up to their neck, and the fish are in over their heads. Anonymous
“A study by scientists at Stockholm University hooked up some teenage boys to...”
– 5 Bizarre Ways Video Games Are Screwing Up Your Health | Cracked.com
Indian Love Poem of the Day
ANTARA I’ve tacked up a small picture on my kitchen wall. In the blue sky, branches made of fresh young wire with four delicate wire birds in them making a machine, onto which a big lever has been attached by Mr. Paul Klee. As if, as soon as it’s turned, wagging these long tongues of wire his bird machine would break into excited chatter. He’s given it a name: Kakaliyantra, The...
“Vlasta rebukes me for being a dreamer. She says I don’t see things as they...”
– Milan Kundera’s “The Joke”
11:48 - 11:58
Slush like this always reminds me of mashed potatoes with too much gravy. I used to drench my mashed potatoes when I was a kid and this small memory makes mucky weather like this less ugly. Nick’s in town for one night only, dolled up in my black boots and his pink tights under the denim skirt I gave him after it stopped fitting me. I seem to just keep getting smaller. My size 6 clothes hung...
Indian Love Poem of the Day
THE PRISON the sea is a prison for the waves, the beach a prison for the sea, the fig tree a prison for the birds, the four quarters are a prison for the day, the day is a prison for the night, the sky for the wind, the face for the eyes, the stomach for hunger, the mind for the thoughts, the mountain for the earth, the picture for the eye, the soft scent for the nostrils, the hair for adorning...
Empty Mornings
Holy God, the arrows of my compass have been mangled and I can’t say which way is East and which way is the afternoon. I dropped Spanish class due to a snarl in my schedule and suddenly find myself with Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings utterly devoid of class. This is a bit of a shock to the system as I haven’t had a semester swim by without having a 4-day-a-week language class...
Indian Love Poem of the Day
WHAT I MEANT Very beautiful twelve years ago, now even more so, fighting your demons in the dark; you, delicate person, dusk on your eyelids, breasts full at nightfall, ask questions still which I cannot answer, and I never could, though I am he who watched your miracle: This is what I meant when I talked of love. Your body smells of honey from the comb. Your amber, silken skin smells of your...
Indian Love Poem of the Day
TALK
Come, love, we must talk today. The feelings that grew In your heart’s ground You plucked like tea leaves, Keeping them to yourself Like green leaves That you wanted to dry. In this earthen oven The sunken fire will revive, Blow once or twice And the half-burnt log Will burn up again And in the oven Again the flame of love will rise And in my body’s flask The water will boil....
Indian Love Poem of the Day
YOU
You’re mine only when you take off all your clothes for me When you’re dressed you belong to the world I’m going to shred this world into pieces one day Ismail (B. 1928)
“I’m so Asian, I cum soy sauce.”
– Nick
What I Know Absolutely For Sure About Nutrition...
Drinking a lot of water will keep you healthy.
Drinking a lot of water will make you sick.
Drinking cold water is bad for your body.
Taking a cold shower is good for your body.
Peanuts are really good for you.
Peanuts are really bad for you.
Milk will prevent osteoporosis.
Milk will give you cancer.
Eggs are good for you.
Eggs are bad for you.
Eggs are good for you but only if you don’t...
Indian Love Poem of the Day
LOVE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Hiding in the cucumber garden simple country girl shivers with desire her lover on a low cot lies tired with love she melts into his body with joy his neck tight in her arms one of her feet flicking a necklace of sea shells hanging on a vine on the fence rattles them to scare off foxes there in the dark
Vidya (8th century CE)
Indian Love Poem of the Day
MY LOVE From Subhashitavali of Vallabhadeva
Although I conquer all the earth, Yet for me for there is only one city. In that city there is for me only one house; And in that house, one room only; And in that room a bed. And one woman sleeps there, The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.
“The Onion recently ran a headline that struck a nerve because it is all too...”
– Quote of the Day: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), at a hearing of the Senate Financial Services Committee.
The latest edition to the “When Obama is president” meme: When Obama is president, The Onion will make real news. (via thedailywhat)
Japan learns English from Obama speech textbook
By Yoko Kubota Yoko Kubota – Tue Jan 20, 1:02 am ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama’s speeches are proving a best-seller in Japan — as an aid to learning English. An English-language textbook, “The Speeches of Barack Obama,” has sold more than 400,000 copies in two months, a big hit in a country where few hit novels sell more than a...
33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace. 2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing. 3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits. 4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils. 5. DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes. 6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair. 7....
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This I found recommended in the New York Times and I think it’s an awesome idea. Everybody loves farmer’s markets and here’s one online. It’s a really great place to order organic treats too. :)
“It turns out that happiness can spread through social networks, like a virus.
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– Why You’re Not Happy: Tips for Overcoming 6 Common Barriers to Happiness
Newspapers With Good News For Once
It’s not every day I get to open the newspaper on our grubby, white kitchen table and read a gaggle of stories about how all the eyewitnesses were amazed at how smooth the emergency water-landing was, and how all the passengers agreed the pilot was amazing, and how all the ferry traffic flew to help them within 5 minutes. People helped each other and were gracious and everyone survived....
Another Lens
(Nick already posted the link to this. This post is more for me, the virtual packrat who has been betrayed by links too many times to simply re-blog.)
What Girls Want
by Caitlin Flanagan
Children’s books about divorce—which are unanimously dedicated to bucking up those unfortunate little nippers whose families have gone belly-up—ask a lot of their authors. Their very premise, however laudable, so...
5 Classic Cartoons They Don't Want You To See |... →
This seems too incredible to be true but I guess this just illuminates how much the world can change in a short amount of time. A cartoon can go from being a childish representation of common social thought to a hugely offensive piece of work in less than a third of someone’s lifetime.
I’ve found yet another lens to view my life through and things just grow more and more fascinating.
What I Will Someday Cook
Fudge Drops
First task: Combine the chocolate and butter. Since these cookies are heavily reliant on chocolate for their flavor, I like to use a good quality dark chocolate: Merckens.
Melt in the microwave till softened…
…then stir till smooth.
Stir the chocolate into eggs and sugar, which you’ve beaten together.
Add the remaining ingredients–including chocolate chips, for an...
What I Will Someday Cook
how to make a rainbow cake!
And of course, you can use any white cake recipe you’d like. This is just how I make it because I have delusions of wearing size 2 someday. Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! The recipe at the bottom is accurate, but this made for a really REALLY small cake, and there was not nearly enough frosting, especially considering its...
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies :
SUCCESS
Caitlin Kelly is a Hillary supporter who goes to Notre Dame and occasionally spends more on quality clothes than I do on college fees. AJ Ellis runs a blog for fashion and can identify where I bought every article of clothing I own. So I told them to roll up their expensive sleeves and roll balls of chocolate dough onto wax paper while Nick...
Happy January 12, 2009
khaoticserenity:
d-min:
sblack8:
Happy National Clean Off Your Desk Day!
Happy Organize Your Home Day!
apparently its just a great day to be neat and tidy…
today is so totally my day
Hmm, so I certainly didn’t read this intentionally till now. Yet I coincidentally organized my desk today…I could have noted the words neat and tidy when skipping over tumblr and been subliminally...