raggityedge

10/15/10 — 12:24pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay1ElB3r

5/1/10 — 12:30am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayXXZIk

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (via mnmal)

Source: mnmal

4/8/10 — 10:37pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayUEezo

This is the difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense.

Wilhelm Wexler (via claytoncubitt)

Source: claytoncubitt

1/13/10 — 2:09pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayJrFuA

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett (via mnmal)

Source: mnmal

10/29/09 — 10:47pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayDZ_Xu

EXCLUSIVE: STAR WARS x MARC ECKO WATCHES:Holiday 2009

want one.

badly.

Source: beingmarcecko.com

10/21/09 — 11:01am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayD3riC

Watch '28 Days Later' in One Minute, in One Take

Concision. Brilliant.

9/28/09 — 11:02pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayBvzT-

fake marshall mcluhan

9/28/09 — 4:11pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayBumhq

what no home should be without…

9/28/09 — 4:07pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayBul-A

an angry god…

High-res 9/28/09 — 4:05pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZkhmayBuliz

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yourmonkeycalled:

“Testing the Sony Microphone”

A minute of brilliant fuckin’ around from Lenny Bruce. From Let the Buyer Beware.

Source: yourmonkeycalled

6/16/08 — 10:30am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay2JKaI

Field Notes — “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”

6/13/08 — 12:47pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay2I3mc

Los Angeles, August 2001

I'm in a strip club with friends.
The music is very loud.
A stripper comes up to me.
stripper:
(incomprehensible)
me:
(shouting) What? I can’t hear you!
stripper:
(smiling) I know what you mean. I’m partially deaf myself.
me:
Right. I can imagine. The music...it’s so loud!
stripper:
Oh, it’s not because of the music. It’s my brain surgery.
me:
What? Your what?
stripper:
Brain surgery.
me:
Did you say...brain surgery?
stripper:
Yup. Here...you can feel it.
She holds back her hair and pulls down her left ear. Even in the dark, there is something wrong about the skin.
I reach out and touch the area just behind her ear.
stripper:
See? They had to take out some of the bone in my head.
me:
Why? I mean, why the surgery?
stripper:
Oh. Well I had like a tumor, only it wasn’t a tumor and it was like not like the bad kind. It wasn’t... (thinking) ...malignant. But it was growing towards my brain. Oh ya. I mean a few more inches and it would have been in my brain.
me:
Wow.
stripper:
Ya. So they had to dig it out.
they had to DIG it out.
stripper:
But they also had to cut into my ear canal and take out most of my sinus on my left side. That’s why my hearing’s so messed up. I have to clean out my ear every morning now because it leaks. Every six weeks I have to have it drained.
she has to have it DRAINED.
stripper:
So, you wanna, like a dance?
i smile
me:
Um...maybe later?
she smiles, even bigger, her collapsed cheek distorting as her mouth widens.
stripper:
Okay! See ya!
gleefully, she bounces away.
this is l.a.
welcome to the party.

6/13/08 — 12:39pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay2I3Zt

photo by chris anthony.

reminds me of matheson’s excellent short story, White Dress.

6/13/08 — 11:47am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay2I2BF

it’s what inside that counts

6/13/08 — 11:38am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zkhmay2I20d Filed under: #found