January 2011
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In which Republicans suck especially hard →
“In addition to cutting subsidies to the arts, the plan also promises to slash legal services to the poor, subsidies for public transportation, and U.S. support for United Nations research on climate change. No cuts to military spending are included in the bill.
The arts subsidies — classic scapegoats when it comes to Republican ire about wasteful government spending — are among the first...
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DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO TRY TO GO TO...
Too True. →
It took me a while to realize this was a parody but then it all made sense.
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And another
My favorite favorite of all time that I mentioned more than I would like to say in a few college applications… I happen to be typing these by hand from the book since he’s still alive and wants money so you can’t find them online, so I hope he doesn’t find me and sue me… College essays fried my brain and I probably sound dumb as shit right now.
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I once gave my...
Walcott relapse
God. Damn. I’m sorry but I fucking love Derek Walcott. Just look at this shit he wrote on the spot at the Folger in 2007. (No idea why I’m being this profane about it.) Anyways:
In Spain
Plod of a hoof in the blood rusted earth. Clatter of a rivulet over white stones. Black bulls trampling the cape-shade of cork trees and wind in the high wheat rustling like rust and like the...