Are you a true crime addict? Do you collect True Crime Trading Cards, made by Eclipse in 1992? Then check out my True Crime Trading Card List.
7 Really Weird Mysterious Places in America
My list of the top 7 incredibly strange, weird, and mysterious places in America, including Coral Castle, the Georgia Guidestones, and more.
Random Cool Websites | 6.24.2013
A list of some of my favorite recent random cool websites, including albino animals, daily challenges, and how creativity is affected by beer and coffee.
Drunk Tank Pink • Studies in Color Design
DRUNK TANK PINK (n) : A bubblegum-pink color which has calming effects on people prone to aggressive behavior. In the early 1980s, psychologists daubed jail cells with drunk tank pink paint and discovered that the color calmed aggressive prisoners.
Self-deprecatingly Correct | SomeEcards
I made a few ecards for SomeEcards, and one of them was featured as an Editor’s Pick. Finally, my sarcasm has a purpose. (Needless to say, I’m flattered.)
Random Cool Websites | 2.7.13
Random cool websites including JibJab, I am a Stuffed Animal, How to Be Perfect, Thought Catalog, etc. etc.
WTF | How Alcohol Affects The Brain
Researchers say that it is likely that alcohol makes a person more relaxed and therefore, their brain is able to take in the bigger picure faster.
CRAIGSLIST • Name My Fish
Got drunk and thought hey! Fish sounds like a good idea. Bad idea. So now I’m stuck with a fish.
I have no desire to give it a name. But I feel like this fish is now my friend. Weird situation to be in.
WTF MOMENT | Presidential Election 2012 & Cats Driving Cars
Well the boyfriend is working in Colorado canvassing for the Obama Campaign for the next week & a half. Personally, i cannot wait until this election is over. I dread checking my email because of all the news emails I am constantly being barraged with.…
WTF | Hamster Jazz Band
Two great things: Jazz Music & Hamsters.
Hamsters playing Jazz music? Priceless.
The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game
If you spend a long time mulling the nature of ‘deserving’ and what it actually means, and if you can’t really resolve the question of whether anyone specifically ‘deserves’ anything and come to an impasse about chaos and the innate unfairness of life, drink.
WTF | PONTIAC FOR SALE, silly craigslist
Funny Craigslist ads… is there anything better?
Random Cool Websites| 4.10.12
1. Drinkify.org Finally, a site that simply combines my love for music & alcohol. (The keyword of course is: SIMPLY.) And it is simple. Step 1: Visit Drinkify.org. Step 2: Type in a musician, band, whatever. Step 3: Never drink alone again. For real, right?…
WHERE THE HELL IS SAMOA?
Apparently the country (or occupation? I still don’t know) of Samoa doesn’t agree that there are some rules you just can’t break.
THE HILL OF DREAMS
Found a lot of documents in the attic of my house recently, including this page from a book. Also there was a check from 1958, a few more ’50’s legal papers & homework on famous explorers with doodles drawn in the margin lines. I know…
49 EXOTIC PETS MURDERED | News
This is a tragedy. Well, to say the least this is one of the biggest headlines in news around America. I’m not sure who i’m more sad or angry at: is it just always easier to deal with emotional issues when there’s someone around to…
About
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.
People are always telling me I’m tough. Maybe because I’ve survived so much. The only time I’m tough in my own mind is when I’m seized by a poem and then determined to conquer it and let it live its own peculiar life. All my toughness goes into my writing.
— Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters
I am suddenly engulfed in a longing for home. It stuns me. Maybe I’ve just never been away long enough to appreciate it. Maybe that’s the way it is with everything.
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
— Coco Chanel
Jacquie’s latest relapse had not left burn holes in her life. She didn’t lose her job, and she hadn’t wrecked her car. She was sober again, and ten days is the same as a year when you want to drink all the time.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
— Anaïs Nin
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.
— George Lois
The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit.
— Anne Sexton
I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.
I paint every day. Sometimes I hate painting, but I keep at it, thinking always that before I croak I'll really learn how to do it – maybe as well as some of the old painters.
— Thomas Hart Benton
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really try to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really try to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
— Ernest Hemingway
The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.
I hoard my books. They are people who do not leave.
— Anne Sexton, Self Portrait in Letters
'You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living. That is when you get to die. Not now.'
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning
“Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!”
My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but
I shall go on living...
— Pablo Neruda, The Dead Woman
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
— Anaïs Nin
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. [...] I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
— Anne Sexton
“The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’s the only thing that is.”
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
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
'Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.'
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
When did we all fall so in love with our own opinions? It felt like everyone was shouting at one another, clinging to their own hot takes, and missing all the best parts of being alive.
— Ali Benjamin, The Smash-Up
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
For a sunrise or a sunset,
You're manic or you're depressed,
Will you ever feel okay?
— Bright Eyes, Sunrise, Sunset
Our love is all we have.
— Wilco, Jesus Etc.
This is it, the thing we’ve been waiting for. It’s right here right now in front of us. Do it now. Whatever it is, do that thing that honors life.
"Your children will probably be soft, prissy creatures, as the children of hard-bitten characters usually are. And to make them worse, you, like every other mother, are probably determined that they shall never know the hardships you’ve known. And that’s all wrong. Hardships make or break people. So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.”
Patience will be rewarded, the garden reminded me.
— Loretta Nyhan, Digging In
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 am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
— W. C. Fields
“You’d be surprised how much of your happiness has to do with little problems. Like having to go get toilet paper or having to fetch some water. If you just sat around and ‘magicked’ everything, then you’d wind up just … sitting around.”