Links of the Week – February 27, 2015
* 10 Ways To Be Her True Life Superhero
* How I Feel About My Responsibilities
* Christianity Without The Cross
* 24 Times Your Favorite Kids’ Cartoons Suddenly Got Really Deep
* Fun With Kirk And Spock – (WHY do I not own this book?)
* 27 Times Tumblr Used Art History Perfectly To Make A Point
* How We Talk About Our Teachers – (Turns out we use different descriptors depending on if they’re male or female)
* Star Trek Spock With Ears Socks
* The “Golden Years” Are Gone: Why Retirement Is Hell For Women – (Oh good. Something else to look forward to.)
* How Much I Was Distressed During “Fox and the Hound”
* Game Day Program – Ohio State vs. Indiana – Thanksgiving Day 1903 – (So cool!)
* When I Hide In The Bathroom Stall Until I Hear My Coworker Leave So I Don’t Have To Make Small Talk With Them – (Every time.)
* Check Out Ambidextrous Pitcher Pat Vendittes’ Chthulu-Like Glove
* Adventure Time Oreo Necklaces
* Subway Riders Can Be Animals – (Awesome paintings!)
* You’re Not Happy Because You Never Learned To Be
* The Emory Wheel Editorial Board: Gender Neutral Pronouns Necessary For Inclusivity
* Just Let Them Kiss Already: Why Are TV Shows Are So Weird About Male Relationships?
* I Can Haz Cheezburger?: Extrovert vs. Introvert – (As illustrated by cats…)
* Why Each Sign Is Dangerous – (Scorpio)
* Stained Glass Backboards Are Completely Unnecessary And Beautiful
* 10 Things I Wish I Knew At The Beginning Of Sobriety
* 19 Anti-Social Motivational Posters That I Really Want To Hang In My Office
* Study: What Are The Most Addictive Foods? – (This is why I have frozen pizza six nights a week…)
* “My Mom Can Kick Your Ass” Kid’s T-Shirt
* After His Brother’s Suicide , Writer Seeks Comfort “In All The Wrong Places”
* Get The Picture: Stubborn Is As Stubborn Does – (You can only do so much)
* 19 Pictures That Will Hurt Your Fragile Soul – (Owwwwwwwwwww!)
* The Refuge: A Healing Place – Depression
* The Center: A Place For Hope
* Photos: Evan Gattis The Astro
* Unlocking “The Woman Code”: 4 Tips To Know Your Value
* Unexpressed Emotions, Rage And Depression
* NASA Sees “Bright Spots” On Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System – ( OoO )
* This Wondrous Dutch Light Installation Mimics The Northern Lights – ( ❤ ❤ ❤ )
* A Tortured Soul, Josh Hamilton’s Battle Was Never Over
* GPS In Shoulder Pads: Vanderbilt Goes High Tech
* The Frisco RoughRiders Have Your New Favorite Presidential MiLB Logo – (Must have a cap with Big Head Teddy!)
* Reviewing My 2015 Goals Thusfar – (11 out of 26. Eh.)
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“As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.”
– A Spy In The House Of Love, Anaïs Nin
“I turned over in bed and listened to the traffic in the rain. A few cold, clear truths rose one by one through my consciousness like a flock of birds: I wasn’t even remotely worthy of William and I wasn’t ever going to have him; I’d asked my mother to lend me money and she’d said no; I’d given all the change to the cabdriver; no one was going to pay off my debts; no one would save me from myself. I fell asleep to the soft beating of wings in my head.”
– In The Drink, Kate Christensen
“One fine spring morning I awoke in my own bed alone, with an ache in every orifice and a memory of bending over on the Christopher Street Pier at four in the morning with my drawers around my ankles while John stood behind me, holding my hips. As I gripped a piling to keep from tumbling into the Hudson, I gazed down into the filthy water and thought gaily to myself, Well, here I am, and this is me.”
– In The Drink, Kate Christensen
“Throughout these long afternoons outside with her, I was always conscious of being a speck at the bottom of a vast, ragged bowl of rock under the empty sky, buried in the silence and heat, surrounded by blank sand. The foothills, with their gray-green mesquite fur, rolled away to faraway mountains that sat sharp-spined on the horizon, unconnected to the valley floor, as if they’d been set down ready-made. The buttes and mesas to the west glowed deep red; veins of magenta and green spidered along rock formations shaped like tablets or giant hands, stacked in layers of cinnabar, crimson, brick. Masses of clouds echoed the rock shapes in their charcoal or ocher strata, wind-shaped crags so dense they looked mineral. The air was thick with the breath of sage and hot dust. At sunset the air hung low, striated like a weird plowed field of pigmented earth, backlighting the mountains with shirred, neon clouds, leaching all the color from the rocks, abstracting the bushes to dark cutouts. The wind moved like a huge hand through the valley, filling me with a restless, empty impatience I later identified as loneliness.”
– In The Drink, Kate Christensen
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Links of the Week – December 12, 2014
* Kids’ Drawings Speak Volumes About Home
* Old And Overmedicated: The Real Drug Problem In Nursing Homes
* Mall Santa Poses For Best Santa Photo Ever
* Right Whales Begin Migration To Georgia, Florida
* NASA Takes One Small Step Back Into Space: But Is Orion Really Taking Us In The Right Direction?
* Santa, Don’t Pigeonhole My Kid
* Behind The Picture: The Photo That Changed The Face Of AIDS
* When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them
* 5 Tips To Stop Dating ‘Fixer-Upper’ Guys
* SpaceX Will Try To Land Rocket On Floating Ocean Platform Next Week – (AWESOMESAUCE!)
* trekbedtimestories: This Is A Thing You Can Buy
* All Kirked Up And No Place To Go – (“There’s a man out there!”)
* A Man Selling His Koala Makes The Best Craigslist Post Ever
* Hudson’s Hickory House, Douglasville – (Tastes like home. We’ve eaten there so much they sent flowers to Daddy’s funeral.)
* No Love For Leather: Nike’s Innovative Vapor 360 Baseball Glove Is Here
* Dick Allen May Not Be In The Hall Of Fame, But Here Are Six Reasons He’s In The Cut4 o’ Fame
* The Driver Behind Public Transportation’s Transformation In Atlanta
* What Will It Take To Run A 2-Hour Marathon – (Fantastic article!)
* Man’s Family Rises To Record High Fourth Priority
* Heart Of Winter Frozen Forest Glow In The Dark Necklace – ❤ ❤ ❤
* Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley On ‘The Addams Family,’ dies at 59
* Rape Rage Driving Feminism’s Third Wave
* North Pole Reindeer Baseball Cards – (Click through on the Baseball Reference link on the bottom of the cards. Donner played in the minors for Rankinbas!)
* Pope Rummaging Through Vatican Basement For Plastic Nativity Scene Figures – (The. BEST! 😀 )
* Last Christmas I Swallowed A Ball Of Yarn…
* Lumpy Space Princess Sweatshirt – (Oh my glob!)
* Lumpy Space Princess Plushie – (Dawwwwwwww!)
* Chastity Sweater – (I don’t think this guy has anything to worry about.)
* Full Moonrise Hike At Stone Mountain January 4th – (This should be amazing!)
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“Cigarette”
Fred Jones was worn down
from caring for his often
screaming and crying wife
burning the day but
He couldn’t sleep at night for fear that she
In a stupor from the drugs that didn’t
ease the pain would set the house ablaze
with a cigarette.
Rage R Us
There are no socially acceptable ways to physically express rage and anger. If you’re a woman, you push it all down inside and keep smiling sweetly. If you’re a man, maybe you punch something and break your hand. The main ways we deal with unexpressed anger are by mistreating others or ourselves. How many black out drunks, acts of physical or verbal domestic abuse, cuts, purges, lines of blow, or whatever, are just attempts to numb misplaced rage?
My million dollar idea is to open a place where people can pay to physically rage without hurting themselves, anyone else, or going to jail.
How therapeutic would it be to be able to pay for a private, noise-proof room where you could choose to throw things, or break dishes, or scream, or crush things with a baseball bat or punch something substantial, or cry, or cuss, or kick things? It would be so healthy, insurance should cover it!
(And if you want to see how screwed up society’s view of female rage is, check out the Google images for the search terms “woman angry,” “woman violent” or “woman punches.” Can we not even own our anger as women? Does it always have to be portrayed as weak and victimized, or cute and sexy?)
A Long Run 
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