Kristen, 19, Louisville to Bloomington.

More and More
by Margaret Atwood

More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible through the skin
like a cool plant's tricks with oxygen
and live by a harmless green burning.

I would not consume
you or ever
finish, you would still be there as the air.

Unfortunately I don't have leaves.
Instead I have eyes
and teeth and other non-green
things which rule out osmosis.

So be careful, I mean it,
I give you fair warning:

This kind of hunger draws
everything into its own
space; nor can we
talk it all over, have a calm
rational discussion.

There is no reason for this, only
a starved dog's logic about bones.
that’s hot

that’s hot

After spending several hours writing a 250-word essay in Arabic and getting a professor to edit it for me, I found out that I misread one of the words in the prompt. NOTE TO SELF: العالم ≠ الاعلام

just one exciting glimpse into what my summer taking an intensive Arabic course will probably be like

“

i’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is

- people who benefit from the way it is and does not want to change it anytime soon and aren’t sorry at all (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)

Random Access Memories

stoneirr:

As you may or may not have known (Pitchfork claims you must live in a different universe to have not known about this), Daft Punk is releasing a new album next week. It was played today on iTunes. Here are some of the impressions I have of certain tracks.

Give Life Back to Music

This song. Good lord this song is giving me chills. The guitar riff is so shimmery, dancey, electro and just joyous.

The Game of Love


It’s almost like this tragic love song that could be played when a planet blows up in the year 2120. It’s sinister but also so damn sexy. HOW.

Doin’ It Right


A panda bear cuddles up to you then asks you to dance then all of a sudden the panda bear turns into Noah Lennox and you’re weirded out but also impressed by his super sexy dance moves. He slowly whispers into your ear the entire time.

Contact


This track sounds like if your car all of a sudden got hyperspace capabilities and you have the chance to go to the future but at the last moment the hyperspace motherboard starts malfunctioning—but it was totally cool though because even though you had to stay in the present, you still had this album by Daft Punk.

Further track reviews to follow. I’m too busy making granola.

1. Stone, I love you

2. Cannot wait to dance to this album at every party this summer

just bought my plane ticket to cairo!

actually pretty surprised that i managed this yay

actually pretty surprised that i managed this

yay

“

Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don’t, but we wear it all the same. There’s only one question worth asking now: How to we aim to live with it?

- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

theycallmemiketaylor:

monsterbeard:

spytap:

Massive explosion hit Damascus about an hour ago (about 20 seconds in.)

Wow. Using the ol’ lightning to thunder conversion, that giant fireball is 2 miles away. That is some kind of escalation

Holy shit

Israeli rockets strike Damascus military site

what the fuck…

sell-out

sell-out