Quantum Physics explained: "we have no idea, just accept it at face value and roll with it"
May 2012
415 posts
It is 12:15 in Washington D.C., a Monday,
the day after an earthquake in Italy, and I’m listening
to “I Feel Love,” the song Brian Eno said would change
music for good. In Afghanistan a Marine
sergeant tweets about boredom and generators
from a gritty keyboard in Combat Outpost Marjah.I conjure up the unrelenting sand he describes
in 140 characters while a new Barnard BA strategizes her type
of rekindling and a poli-sci grad at Liberty types up an op/ed
on Romney and values,
and stories get made this way, then taken down.Just as quickly, the imprint of one a ghost
in the other, the way Harvard links two opponents,
the way a fracture is also a seam.
Songs about rivers inflect an Italian art revolution
against austerity,
or we’re forces multiplied both in the streets
of Chicago or in the alliances of nations.Or we once listened to a soundtrack in falsetto
that sounded like the end of the past
and also the future as our parents waited hours for gas,
but still danced to these new thumps in the analog network
we made of our lives then,except that time or history whispered their own songs
- Carmen Gimenez Smith, NPR News Poet
along the keyboard
and pushed us into the tangle of before,
and the web of last
where everyone and I are still that held breath,
made sharp and vital harmony.
Here's another reason I dislike being Asian.
Obviously, my parents are super traditional and old-fashioned.
So whenever my parents argue, my dad can win the argument no matter what as long as he raises his voice and decides to put his foot down and my mom has to shut up.
My parents just have nasty fights and are super racist and homophobic but don’t believe they are. Yeah Asians.
At least we’re kind of a girl-power family though. Women aren’t considered lesser/subservient to men.
“You also left me a really good TV sports package. I use it.”
—Barack Obama, to George W. Bush. (via officialssay)
Fun Fact: I've never seen a Home Alone movie.
…we need to fix that.
“If Kim Jong Un makes a sex tape, will America invade North Korea?”
—Tim Stanley, the Telegraph (via fuckyeahthirdamendment)
“Gatsby is a book that has come to mean something to people that sometimes feels disconnected from the book itself. Fitzgerald great trick was to write about two people who wanted each other, but not write a love story. Of course I root for Daisy to leave Tom every time. But my rooting is wrong, and by the end of the book, Fitzgerald has really shown you why. Daisy is the one that got away—except you have no idea what that means. That “one” isn’t some better future. She is a person—a indelibly flawed American. Like you.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, on The Great Gatsby. (via theatlantic)
