February 2012
66 posts
spending my tax return on radiohead, dresses, and furniture
yeeeeah excite
how have i gone this long without audiobooks holy shat
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“[W]hen thinking about difficult, exciting, interesting activities, such as...”
– The neuroscience of the constant tug-of-war between rationality and intuition in a world that sees them as a binary divide. (via)
This is why I don't take naps.
expectations: I'm just going to take a quick power nap and I'll wake up refreshed and energized
reality: passed out cold for five hours solid, wake up not knowing what day it is or what the last meal you ate was
i quite often get stuck in brain loops when i read
tonight its: “and extensive daytime”
i’m sitting here eating a bowl of ramen (as usual) and i realized that the dear tumblr universe doesn’t know where ‘here’ is!
‘here’ is in a suburb of miami named kendall. i moved to miami about a month and a half ago and i found my current living situation three weeks ago. i am renting a room inside a huge four bedroom house owned by young newlyweds. they live...
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science has no place in "treating" cross-dressing
“A fairly typical example of aversion therapy is provided in a case study reported by N.I. Lavin and colleagues (1961). They used aversion therapy to treat a married man who was sexually aroused by dressing in women’s clothing. His interest in cross-dressing began when he was 8 years old; in adolescence, his masturbation always accompanied cross-dressing fantasies. Even after...
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can anyone give me a rational explanation for why the author of my learning and behavior textbook found it necessary to quote the musical “south pacific” to emphasize the role of conditioning in emotional response? also i would appreciate it if he stopped giving pavlov bj’s and making snide materialist commentary.
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“No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
Nobody knew...”
– “Gacela of Unforseen Love,” Federico Garcia Lorca (via clavicola)
“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting...”
– “Like This,” Rumi (via clavicola)
“You were last seen walking through a field of pianos. No. A museum of mouths. In...”
– “new york craigslist > personals > missed connections,” Megan Falley (via clavicola)
“The sheets have been laundered clean
of our joint essence - a compound,
not a...”
– “Tokens,” Fleur Adcock (via clavicola)
“I sit here, an arch-villain of romance,
thinking about you. Gee, I’m sorry
I...”
– “The Moon Versus Us Ever Sleeping Together Again,” Richard Brautigan (via clavicola)
“It has been so wet stones glaze in moss;
everything blooms coldly.
I expect...”
– Dear One Absent This Long While, Lisa Olstein (via passade)
clavicola:
I am going to die of dark water and small hands
the time bomb will go off and when it does you can wrap yourself in all of my poems.
— J. Clark