if you never had to actually have your rights voted on because you always had them by default i think it’s safe to say you can sit the fuck down
tonight made me hate anthropology.
i think i’ll get over this soon. it’s more about power, anyway.
Giant Band of Galactic Gas Likely has Dual Origin
Two satellites of the Milky Way contributed to the Magellanic Stream.
An enormous ribbon of gas that threads through the thinner gas of the Milky Way’s halo is the result of a gravitational tug-of-war between the two Magellanic clouds, the brightest satellite galaxies orbiting our own.
houston mornings, feeling like a fool because how did i end up with six kids from pennsylvania talking about anthropocentrism on the statue of four lies whatever that means which we don’t know and moreover how did i end up at this bookstore that sells ‘the solar system and critical review of einstein’s theory of relativity’ with regards from lionel himself on the inside cover and how is it that some boy dove into a sewer fountain this morning and so many people like maps and reggae?
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven’t Read, which are frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you…And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You’ll Wait Till They’re Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too.”
— Italo Calvino, “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” (via voodoosaloon)
“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”
— Ram Dass (via slychedelic)
