“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.”
— Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs. From a BBC radio interview in 2007. (via elviskeepsmypictureinhiswallet)
That thing about “believe ur body ur brain is a liar” is such bs bc if my body is correct there’s been an invisible person standing behind me for the past hour striking the back of my head repeatedly with an invisible whiffle bat. And that seems bretty unlikely
Flowering Kalanchoe in Holualoa, Hawaii. Kalanchoe was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space station in 1971. Photo: Kevin R. Seiter
got fired via a text from my boss who i’ve never digitally communicated with and because it was an unknown number sending a mysterious link with no context (turned out to be security camera footage of me taking 1 can of cheap beer) i assumed it was spam and my immediate response was
My great uncle had a pet crow growing up. It was the 50s and when he was training for high school football out on the field it would fly from home and watch him
he and his friends also had lockers all next to each other so they took out the middles and made it into a giant fishtank and didn’t get caught till lik the end of the year. He also also bought a baby alligator and snuck it into the school
