When an injured goose named Arnold was having surgery, he got a surprise visitor: his mate for life, a goose named Amelia. Watch the heartwarming story.
Heartwarming: Woman Watching Livestream Saves Pig’s Life
A woman was watching a video Livestream of a pig named Ethel, when a fire began in Ethel’s pen. It’s such a sweet story, give it a watch. Everyday heroes can surface from the most unlikely places.
Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.” Complete poem ‘Roll the Dice’ by Charles Bukowski. Featuring the video ‘All the way’ by Willem Martinot Charles, based on the poem by Bukowski.
Animal Odd Couples: Kind of the Best Thing Ever
The latest commercial from Android ‘Furever Friends’ features animal odd couples – probably the best thing in the world.
WTF | A Series of Cute Hamster Videos
A series of cute hamster videos doing people things, found on YouTube. Animals doing people things = WIN!
WTF | Generic Brand Marketing Video
You know those commercial ads you see on TV narrated by deep-voiced men? Well this is sort of like that. A satirical brand marketing video.
What Web Designers Do
Ever wonder what web designers do? It’s hard to portray the duties of my job without going into what I call “nerd-talk,” but I’m trying anyway.
Bob Dylan Interactive Video “Like A Rolling Stone”
Bob Dylan has released an interactive video of his icon song Like A Rolling Stone on his website. It’s not your typical music video. It’s an interactive video.
WTF | Hamster Jazz Band
Two great things: Jazz Music & Hamsters.
Hamsters playing Jazz music? Priceless.
BREAKING BAD | Why We Love it
My take on the hit show Breaking Bad, & why we love it so much, covering characters and the raw storyline of today’s meth cooking anti-hero.
WTF | Clients From Hell
ClientsFromHell.net is, to say the least, one of my favorites sites whenever I need a little comic relief from the constant barrage of design on my plate.
Date With The Night (video)
What happens when I miss video editing. These are things that keep me up nowadays.
A LESSON ON TYPOGRAPHY
An awesome short film, definitely worth watching. { Courtesy of Fatxican. }
MIXTAPE 101 | Anti-Love Playlist; Sad Songs For Sad People.
I think it’s safe to say, love sucks. A lot of times. Sometimes getting through heartbreak feels nearly impossible. & so, for the love lorn, lovesick, heart stricken – this is my compilation playlist of 77 best indie, alternative breakup songs.
MIXTAPE 101: love & winter winds.
love & winter winds. | january 3, 2011 1. Gotye – Somebody that I used to Know 2. Mazzy Star – Cry, Cry 3. Patsy Cline – You Belong to Me 4. Sixpence None the Richer – The Lines of My Earth</h4> 5. Sur Le…
HALLOWEENIE ROAST 2011 | Design + Video Recap
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My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
This is what it will be, every day, without him. I felt a wild-eyed tightness in my chest, like a scream. Every day, without him.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.
— Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn’t possible that she, Scarlett O’Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn’t possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Nothing has changed. It’s still very simple. I miss him. I miss him every day. I miss him very much. But how would it be if that feeling was gone? I would not want that to happen. I told the shrink: It would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore. You can’t hurry love, as the song goes. You can’t hurry grief, either.
— Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
This is the strangeness of memory: in recalling a moment, I am instantly reminded of all the details that elude me, and feel myself making them up even as I say “this is certainly true; and this, and this.” But my first sighting of you has never been vulnerable to such corruption. I remember everything.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
— Charles Bukowski
It's a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
— Dalai Lama
For a sunrise or a sunset,
You're manic or you're depressed,
Will you ever feel okay?
— Bright Eyes, Sunrise, Sunset
Years had worn off the calendar, but what had changed?
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
I told him a little of the storm I had been through in the past days. I felt like someone condemned to die and then suddenly paroled.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry & June
Something like a grey flower grew between us, a thought that took shape and spoke of the chasm that separated us.
— John Fante, Ask the Dust
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
— Coco Chanel
“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
If I had one wish, it would be to dance with him to this song..
But I haven't met him yet.
— Unknown
Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
— Charles Bukowski
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
— Anaïs Nin
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
— Joan Jett
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
— John Green
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
— Pablo Picasso
I don't care what they say after I'm dead. In fact, I hardly care what they say while I'm alive. I only write to help myself get through the weeks and the months and the years.
— Charles Bukowski
You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.
— Drew Magary, The Postmortal
It used to be that when something went wrong, there was an adult you could call, but now I was that adult.
Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt that she owed Him nothing at all now.
For a sunrise or a sunset, your lover is an actress.
Did you really think she'd stay?
— Bright Eyes, Sunrise, Sunset
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
— Charles Bukowski
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
— Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
Even when you think you can't bear it, you can bear it.
— Lauren Groff, Arcadia
I don’t want to forget you. So I hold onto the memories tightly, I think about you constantly, I dream about you nightly.
I don’t want to say “You were. Yesterday. Used to.” Because here and now is where I need you.
— Amanda Blair
You never fail until you stop trying.
— Albert Einstein
Hating never fixed anything. It seems simple, but most things are. We just complicate them. We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
Oh, my name it means nothing and my age it means less.
The country I come from is called the midwest...
— Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
It is murder
Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be… safe. At least she knows she’s living.
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
She did not think of it consciously but in the back of her mind, whenever she was confronted by an unpleasant and difficult task, the idea lurked giving her strength: “I’ve done murder and so I can surely do this.”