oh, larissa

"If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. what..."

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:02:33 -0400

“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. what you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. you sort of get tired, and indifferent, and…”

- texturism

Dear America: Read this before heading north

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:57:05 -0400

Dear America: Read this before heading north:

sabine:

Foreign Policy Passport addresses this.

Mind blown that there are people who threaten to move to Canada because the US is too “socialist”. It is apparent in 0.5 seconds that they know absolutely nothing about Canada.

sabino: by jessica

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:43:58 -0400

sabino: by jessica

Hell yeah. Excited for tomorrow!

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:33:34 -0400

Hell yeah. Excited for tomorrow!

My life is now complete. That is all.

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:29:36 -0400

My life is now complete. That is all.

“Listening to GOP Presidential candidates talk about science is like listening to children talk about sex: They know it exists, they have strong opinions about what it might mean, but they don’t have a clue what it’s actually about.”

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:04:00 -0400

From First Floor Under, and an accompanying article.

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:55:00 -0400

From First Floor Under, and an accompanying article.

Hilariousness from Christian Lander’s “Whiter Shades...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:52:35 -0400

Hilariousness from Christian Lander’s “Whiter Shades of Pale”.

by clemens fantur (via sabino)

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:44:17 -0400

by clemens fantur (via sabino)

Photo

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:25:47 -0400

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:04:03 -0400

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

- Freya Stark

Photo

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:18:08 -0400

ilovecharts: Water and Water Related Issues (interactive data...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:43:40 -0400

ilovecharts:

Water and Water Related Issues (interactive data visualization)

Reminds me of the summer of 2009.

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:41:54 -0400

Reminds me of the summer of 2009.

Scandinavian Suspense

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:37:25 -0400

Nordic noir with its scenery, atmosphere and quiet vibe. Scandinavian suspense authors to check out:

Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell
Karin Fossum
Arnaldur Indridason
Johan Theorin
Jo Nesbo
+ the classics from Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

How AMC's Intriguing 'The Killing' Is Turning Creepy Alienation On Its Head

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:22:28 -0400

How AMC's Intriguing 'The Killing' Is Turning Creepy Alienation On Its Head:

“I’m tingling because so far, the storytelling is remarkably layered. Almost every scene forwards the plot — about a Seattle homicide detective named Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and her attempt to solve the murder of a local teenage girl — but it also tells us something about the psychological state of the characters or the creepiness of their city.”

(via vaincre: futurisms:figglesworth:fortnightes) You’re...

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:32:33 -0500

(via vaincre: futurisms:figglesworth:fortnightes)

You’re getting older, and you’ll see that life isn’t like your fairy tales. The world is a cruel place. And you’ll learn that, even if it hurts.

The Good in Mediocre Governance

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:30:03 -0500

The Good in Mediocre Governance:

“In international strategizing, as in life, we tend to have a better sense of ideal outcomes than we do of possible, if second-rate, ones. Just as little girls dream of being prima ballerina at the Bolshoi and not members of the corps de ballet at the Kentucky Ballet Theatre, policy-makers tend to hold up the bright lights of Sweden and Denmark when articulating the hopes for crippled states like Zimbabwe and Cote D’Ivoire. With a nudge here and a nudge there, goes the common parlance, Mali can take a cue from prosperous Netherlands and Iraq can democratize in the image of Canada. This is our Bolshoi fixation.

The reason to call on the middle countries when imagining the futures of the most broken ones is that the questions most relevant to the 20 or 30 weakest countries can’t be answered through the examples of the 20 or 30 strongest. How can peace be maintained in the wake of a rigged election by a megalomaniacal leader? How can economic prosperity improve despite the presence of outrageous levels of corruption? How much violence is enough violence to declare a power-sharing arrangement dead?

These answers can only come, in practical terms, from places that have confronted civil war, authoritarian leadership, a breakdown of law and order but have still, through various strategies, improved their lot. An understanding of these strategies is an invaluable asset.

So while it is tempting to view the state-building project through an ideological lens (a state after all is an idea, as are its virtues: liberty, equality, etc.), more immediate benefit will come from utilizing a pragmatic one. This is not to advocate for subpar governance. But where a liberal, democratic, prosperous, and stable state might be the ideal goal in every case, it can’t be the proximate one for Sudan, Haiti, or Liberia. Ballerinas, after all, clock thousands of hours in front of audiences before even auditioning for the Bolshoi.” —Mary Albino

"Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:46:14 -0500

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

- Leo Buscaglia (via thresca)

(via sabino)

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:38:00 -0500

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