Ken Layne's Blog, page 16

Kill Twitter.

Kill Twitter.

"In America the career almost invariably becomes an obsession. The ‘get-ahead’ principle,..."

“In America the career almost invariably becomes an obsession. The ‘get-ahead’ principle, carried to such extreme, inspires our writers to enormous efforts. A new book must come out every year. Otherwise they get panicky, and the first thing you know they belong to Alcoholics Anonymous or have embraced religion or plunged headlong into some political activity with nothing but an inchoate emotionalism to bring to it or to be derived from it. I think that this stems from a misconception of what it means to be a writer or any kind of creative artist. They feel it is something to adopt in the place of actual living, without understanding that art is a by-product of existence.”

- An Allegory of Man and His Sahara … a 1949 review of Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky, in The New York Times, written by Tennessee Williams.

This is the greatest exchange in the history of communication....

This is the greatest exchange in the history of communication. Click the top one and go all the way through.

maxistentialist:

I’m so happy to be alive in 2013.

(via evangotlib)

Just in case you were wondering for some reason, “Nobody...

Just in case you were wondering for some reason, “Nobody pass away inside the house.” So it is certainly not haunted. Good family home, wait and see!

"He is a bad guy, a victim, a dreamer, a loyal and honest friend, a powerful mutant, a man who has..."

“He is a bad guy, a victim, a dreamer, a loyal and honest friend, a powerful mutant, a man who has nightmares every night, a loving father and a nutcase plagued by uncontrollable fits of rage.”

- I read this and thought, That’s a very good description of me. (From this article.)

Is that you, John Lydon?

Is that you, John Lydon?

What embarrassments and/or delights are revealed by your Amazon...

What embarrassments and/or delights are revealed by your Amazon mp3 cloud player collection of every single CD you’ve bought from Amazon over 15 years, even the ones that were clearly gifts for your mom?

Animals Are My Beat

Animals Are My Beat:

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This is what I’ve written about, today:

Single, Lonely Wolf Seeks Sex and Real Estate In California
Renegade River Otter Takes Up Residence In San Francisco
Candlelight Vigil Planned For Innocent Bull Elk Murdered By Cops

All e-book (and paper-book) covers should move like this. Why...

All e-book (and paper-book) covers should move like this. Why don’t Kindle books start with animated gifs? WHY?

via religiousdevotion:

Team Tardis Film Posters: [1/4]

Romance. Musical. Drama. Historical.

NYC GOV: Statement from Mayor Bloomberg, Co-Chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns on Newtown, Connecticut Shooting

NYC GOV: Statement from Mayor Bloomberg, Co-Chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns on Newtown, Connecticut Shooting:

nycgov:

“With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today. This is a national tragedy and it demands a national response. My deepest sympathies are with the families of all those affected, and my determination to stop this madness is stronger than ever.

-Mayor Bloomberg