Thank you and goodbye
Hello, my five followers! I’ve decided to delete my Tumblr account. Thank you so much for following me during my…month-long sojourn into the world of blogging. I love you in the most non creepy way possible.
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Daily chart: world peace. This global peace index produced by The Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank, is composed of 23 indicators ranging from murder rates to weapons imports to conflicts being fought. It throws up some surprising results, such as that China was more “peaceful” than America in 2007.
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"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
Franz Kafka (via laurajet)
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Today, I gave a speech on social media — and how to do it without having it take over your life. It was fun. I got to make a lot of jokes and stuff. (I like jokes.) Beforehand, I made a handy-dandy handout. Like handouts? Of course you do. Hope you enjoy. — Ernie @ SFB
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"What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour after hour of no words. Would you speak to yourself? Would words just stop being useful? Would you lose language altogether? Or would words mean more, would they start to mean in every direction, all somersault and assault, like a thuggery of fireworks? Would they proliferate, like untended plantlife? Would the inside of your head overgrow with every word that has ever come into it, every word that has ever silently taken seed or fallen dormant? Would your own silence make other things noisier? Would all the things you’d ever forgotten, all layered there inside you, come bouldering up and avalanche you?"
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Presenting Horrible Movie Clichés, an illustrated guide, brought to you by the New York International Latino Film Festival.
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