If you own a rug, you own too much

January 16, 2012 9:14 pm
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November 27, 2011 11:37 am
"…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures…"

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Jack Kerouac (Japhy Ryder/Gary Snyder of The Dharma Bums)

(Source: terramantra)

October 15, 2011 4:44 pm

picturesofwar:

This day in history:

Minutes before giving a speech on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an assassination attempt.  

The would-be assassin’s bullet is slowed down after travelling through a steel eyeglass case and the folded, fifty page speech he intended to give, stopping in his chest.  Realizing that he wasn’t coughing up blood, Roosevelt figured he was well enough to go ahead and deliver his speech rather than rush to the hospital.

He spoke for the next 90 minutes, opening with the words:

“Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

Doctors deemed it too risky to remove the bullet, and Roosevelt carried it with him inside his body for the rest of his life.

October 14, 1912 - 99 years ago today. 

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October 11, 2011 4:35 pm

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October 8, 2011 10:36 am

Willie Nelson performs “The Scientist” by Coldplay for Chipotle’s Cultivate Foundation. The short is titled “Back To The Start”.

September 12, 2011 10:35 pm

slaughterhousefive:

stfuconservatives:

cognitivedissonance:

Tea Partiers cheer the deaths of the uninsured. This is after they cheered executions and booed Ron Paul for his claim that not all Muslims are responsible for 9/11.

If this doesn’t show the true character of the Tea Party, nothing will.

And there’s the footage! Oh my goodness, the disgusting look of “Who cares” on his face.

-Joe

Well, this is disgusting.

10:17 pm
Allen Ginsberg photographed by Gerard Malanga, NYC, 1971

Allen Ginsberg photographed by Gerard Malanga, NYC, 1971

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September 6, 2011 7:09 pm

Fast forward to 2:00.

September 1, 2011 10:13 pm
"I have been called a pioneer. In my book a pioneer is a man who comes to virgin country, traps off all the fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the grass, plows the roots up and strings ten million miles of wire. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."

—

Charles Marion Russell