The Million Word Year

ghastly-h-crackers: thefrogman: [video] [h/t: cineraria] Cat...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:57:41 -0400

ghastly-h-crackers:

thefrogman:

[video] [h/t: cineraria]

Cat mimes, trapped in an invisible box.

Curse this damned invisible forcefield!

bluebie: I love looper music ^_^ Wow. What an amazing way to...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:25:33 -0500

bluebie:

I love looper music ^_^

Wow. What an amazing way to make music. He must get such an incredible high from making music that way. I am jealous!

Or in my world, you say that, and absolutely nobody, not doctors...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:12:11 -0500

Or in my world, you say that, and absolutely nobody, not doctors or therapists or entire hospital staffs, gives a damn.

depressioncomix: depression comix...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:24:16 -0500

depressioncomix:

depression comix #105

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And the worst part is, they don’t even know they are swimming.

depressioncomix: depression comix #106 And if they persist,...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:16:35 -0500

depressioncomix:

depression comix #106

And if they persist, well, what’s wrong with them? How could they love someone as horrible as you? And how could you love someone stupid or broken enough to like someone like you?

depressioncomix: depression comix #104 Yeah, that’s...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:50:53 -0500

depressioncomix:

depression comix #104

Yeah, that’s about it. But you never know which little piece of rock will be the one that causes a big chunk of your burden to slide off with it.

roseaposey: “Judgments”I took this last year, but in...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:45:13 -0500

roseaposey:

“Judgments”

I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.

Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.

I’d like to think I’m more open now.

Excellent work. An elegant and easily read expression of social norms that operate below the radar in our slut shaming culture. Brilliant!

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:45:28 -0500

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And yet, you wonder why you feel so alone.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:41:00 -0500

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I’ve never been a “cutter”, but I still identify with this. A lot of my self-destructive behaviour both fills me with shame and acts as a call for help.

But when you are a grownup, there is nobody to rescue you but yourself.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:51:21 -0500

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You cannot reason you way out of a chemical imbalance.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:47:54 -0500

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And when people finally stop banging their hearts against your wall, you just take that as confirmation that you are worthless, people are evil, and life sucks.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:45:51 -0500

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And of course, depression makes it hard to accept the truth about yourself. You can both know you are a very sick person, yet still hate yourself for not doing what other people do.

Mental illness does not have to make sense.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:18:09 -0500

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That’s not my experience of meds at all, and I do not grok it in others. Paxil saved my life. I was barely alive before it. I was so depressed that I felt like I could stop existing at any moment, like a candle flame going out, tsst. Paxil gave me the necessary resistance to my emotional state’s warping of my reality to make some real psychological progress. Therapy would have been useless without it.

Perhaps I am an atypical depressive in that sense. But I heart my meds and I do not feel they changed who I am at all.

Instead they let me be myself more than ever.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:13:29 -0500

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comment: this is in no way how my friends really are. depression skews things negatively, even how you view friendships. I have had countless friends give up on trying to get through to me, and only in retrospect do I understand their great efforts to try to maintain our friendship.

This is pretty much how I feel, too. No matter how absurd it is, I always feel, deep down, that people are only just barely tolerating me out of pity, and secretly wish they had never met me so they would not have gotten stuck with me.

And deep down, they wish something would take me off their hands.

ghastly-h-crackers: Float like a butterfly, sting like a...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:13:53 -0500

ghastly-h-crackers:

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

He was The Greatest. I love how he not only easily dodges the entire combo, he looks kinda bored and pissed off while he’s doing it.

It’s like the fight at the end of the Matrix!

tarynvondoom: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:57:55 -0500

tarynvondoom:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

snugglecoon: Opportuni-TY!

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 02:42:07 -0500

snugglecoon:

Opportuni-TY!

oldjewstellingjokes: Ettie Steinberg, “Plastic Surgery”

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:56:36 -0500

oldjewstellingjokes:

Ettie Steinberg, “Plastic Surgery”

ghastly-h-crackers: From behind. Dat ass.

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:34:52 -0400

ghastly-h-crackers:

From behind.

Dat ass.

literaryjukebox: Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:56:04 -0400

literaryjukebox:

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie

Song: “L’Illusionniste” by Keren Ann

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