My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I find I’m most unhappy when I walk through this world like a deposed prince looking for his lost kingdom. Maybe it’s not just me, either. Maybe that’s what the whole Vegas thing is about — trying to get the universe to acknowledge that we are so Queen of the Slots or Lord of the Buffet or some damn thing — and maybe that’s why I’m not into it.
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Roy Edroso goes to Vegas. Excellent.
I think these ideas are mostly delusional because they rely on a fundamental misapprehension about the world around us — namely that we live in a society that can be made simple enough to comprehend.
Within ten minutes I am out of sight of all the houses and all I see are comic book mountains and open water. But all around me are the invisible tendrils of Scandinavian socialism, just watching and waiting for a single moment of weakness in order to strike, and provide me with skilful medical attention, or rescue me from the sea, or show me that despite my efforts to hide from the world entirely I am standing on a spot with five bars of cell phone coverage.
Cul de Sac Comic Strip on GoComics.com
“I like little cute animal cartoons with big eyes who’re also magic robot vampire ninjas, but sensitive”
Getting groceries means having to cross the 70th parallel, which fills me with an unjustifiable sense of regret.
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Suddenly I want to spend a week in a cabin in Norway.