big dreams

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birthday bones

That 99% of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves; that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them; and then, weirdly, that if they stop to think about it, that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences of are never good. Then that this connects interestingly with the early-sobriety urge to pray for the literal loss of one’s mind. In short that 99% of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.

—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human […] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

He didn’t reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topherchris: Dogs Waiting for Their Humans Says the photographer: I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon. An oldie but a goodie.

topherchris:

Dogs Waiting for Their Humans

Says the photographer:

I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.

An oldie but a goodie.

“Titus, a yellow lab mix, retrieves a prosthetic leg Wednesday as commanded by trainer Rick Hairston at the Naval Consolidated Brig. Titus was trained by Carolina Canines for Service to perform tasks for wounded veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.” - A Helping Paw

“Titus, a yellow lab mix, retrieves a prosthetic leg Wednesday as commanded by trainer Rick Hairston at the Naval Consolidated Brig. Titus was trained by Carolina Canines for Service to perform tasks for wounded veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.” - A Helping Paw

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Built to Spill

—Carry The Zero

built to spill — carry the zero

i was trying to help but i guess
i pushed too hard

now we can’t even touch it
afraid it’ll fall apart