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What do I know, but life is more than love, tumblr friend.
…the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..
who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals praying for each other’s salvation and light and breasts, until the soul illuminated its hair for a second,
who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soulbetween 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head, the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death, and rose incarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years. (Howl)
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Monkey see, monkey do
Just like the saying “monkey see, monkey do,” monkey says “I want to be a transvestite.”
Mine.
Sometimes i worry that my mind isn’t scientific enough for the social sciences. But I use the logic I’ve been taught in school against someone who clearly defines the world in black and white. Is it the temper of this person that is the root of the problem, or is it my logic? How much longer must i doubt myself? How much longer must I look to other sources to concur with me that the logic I use is sound? How many more precious conversations with friends will be wasted on this? How can I let this distract me from what is important to me?
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Two former contractors for Blackwater Worldwide (now rebranded Xe Services, LLC) have been convicted by a federal jury of involuntary manslaughter and acquitted of a host of other charges, among them second-degree murder and various weapons charges. The two contractors, Justin Cannon and Christopher Drotleff, were responsible for the shooting death of two Afghan civilians in Kabul on May 5, 2009 with an AK-47 and a 9mm pistol. They claimed self-defense during the trial, which originally ended in a hung jury and a mistrial this past September, saying that they were trying to immobilise a car that slammed into theirs while driving on the busy Jalalabad Road. The jury came to its verdict after three days of deliberations, in which they could be heard arguing with one another through the door. The pair have been released for now, and will return to court for sentencing on June 14th. They potentially face up to eight years in prison.
Read the latest news at RFE/RL, AFP, and Voice of America. Read a bit of back story at CNN.
Above: The old Blackwater logo, courtesy of RFE/RL.
Relevant.
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When Polish composer André Tchaikowsky died in 1982, he left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company in hopes that he might appear as Yorick in a production of Hamlet.
No one felt comfortable fulfilling this wish until David Tennant (aka the Doctor aka Barty Crouch Jr.) used the skull in a performance in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2008. He continued to use it throughout the production’s West End run and in a later television adaptation.
