flakes.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.”
-Edward Abbey

better make use of this baby face while i still have it.

I'm going to eat a sandwich.  And then I'm going to ignore you.  All of you.

Because a soul can travel into other lives it's important to remember that one has a body.

the illegal and the necessary

skill without ethics

glass towers

Brinkmanship (alternately, brinksmanship) is the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of—or to the brink of—disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship

more interesting than what one believes is why one believes what one believes.  (in reference to the theories of any thinker stemming from personal experience, a tangible thing that becomes an abstraction)

there are many parts of this dinner I do not trust.

Weapons of the small minded.

the lady in the stars.

the kind of vengeance that is sweet and slow.

opinions are very inconvenient.

The methods of rebels are always crude because they don't have the means of empire.

I don't mind someone being boring as much as I mind them trying to make me boring.

what can hide in a mind.

Ok I'm pissed.

I'm sick of people in the science professions and their superiority complexes. As a science person until my college years (placing at state science fairs at MIT, doing research at Harvard's biolabs, being generally hardcore), I have a tremendous and continuing appreciation for the sciences. I have also been humbled by the immensely valuable and very different critical thinking skills acquired in the humanities at a liberal arts college, and further humbled by the intricacies of human motivations through work with actors and the study of film. So, when science types say they listen to NPR and watch CNN, and don't need a political science degree to know what's going on in the world, I want to facepalm. Or when they mock someone who wants to study ethnomusicology, or when they say they can know just as much as a liberal arts major by reading a few books, they sound incredibly demeaning to not just an entire body of knowledge they realistically will not care to access, but to the people who develop and refine systems of thought that shape and define large-scale human experience - systems of thought that that their minds will never experience because it is a taught skill set that neither their upbringing nor their science education has given them. It is a skill set that enables people to deconstruct books and news and draw their greater implications in the context of socioeconomic / historical patterns.  It is acquiring the knowledge of how to learn.  Science types, because their field offers financial security and social prestige, confuse their status for knowledge.  And because the humanities gets very personal - it deconstructs a person and how one thinks to reshape how they should think - it's hard to correct a grown adult fixed in their worldview.

This isn't to say there are some science types that know how to learn.  They exist and they're wonderful, and they're not the kind of people to undermine the humanities because they know its value.  I'm upset about the types that are judgmental and have superiority complexes, people who don't know what they don't know.  Specifically, they take the piecemeal information and doses of speculation that comes from their social life, whether it's dinner parties or water cooler chats, and consider that an enriched understanding of the matters discussed when it is in essence just entertainment. 

I've been rolling with the anarchists before the academics knew they were relevant.

if wizards only spoke to men, who would know the dragons and elves?

if a girl can dream up a mother, a mother can dream up a child.

Euphoria in the middle of utter hopelessness.

Happiness on stilts above the murky water.

No day is complete without an act of compassion and an act of vengeance.

If you're going to go in, go in deep.

Wisdom without patience equals headache.

The awkward moment when you walk in on someone googling you.

Terrible lighting for a dance.

Even the strange have children.

The dead are better company than the living.