May 2013
81 posts
hannahetaylor:
My little sister is getting made fun of at school because she’s adopted.
This is what she responded with “Well, my parents chose me. Your parents are stuck with you.”
himchanspenus:
Here’s a serious advice. Even the nicest people have their limits. Don’t try to reach that point because the nicest people are also the scariest assholes when they’ve had enough.
prettylittlerebelchild:
I never understood why 6 got so upset when 7 8 9, but then I remembered that 6 and 9 have a special relationship.
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[Cannonball Read V] Review #43: A Man Without a...
At long last, a collection that seems worthy of the Vonnegut name. Robert Scholes said of Vonnegut that he put bitter coatings on sugar pills, but A Man Without a Country reads as the opposite. In his old age, Vonnegut had come to find the world at large circumspect, to say the least. He considered himself “a man without a country,” as the title suggests, and was of the belief that soon no one...
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[Cannonball Read V] Review #42: Armageddon in...
Look, I get that collections like this of unpublished works are meant to be a fan-service of sorts, as when an author dies it’s all his fans have left to hope for. More often than not, though, the end result is misguided at best. There’s a distinct reason the author tucked these away where he likely hoped no one would ever find them. This, and the other posthumous collections of Vonnegut’s...
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[Cannonball Read V] Review #41: Christine by...
My experience with Christine parallels the life of the car itself. Initially, both the story and the car were, to the outside observer, more potential than reality. Like Arnie, though, I could only see that potential and was transfixed, the inherent silliness of the concept for the moment not registering. Further, once he plopped down the money and sat inside that hulking, rusting mass, and...
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[Cannonball Read V] Review #40: The Sandman, Vol....
Build me up, then break me down. Why, Neil Gaiman? Because you excel at it. Here I was thinking the wheels were turning once again and there would be no more pointless side-ventures to distract us from reaching our destination, then out comes Worlds’ End, another of your short-story collections thinly disguised as being part of The Sandman series.
There was a certain novelty to that the...
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[Cannonball Read V] Review #39: The Sandman, Vol....
Could this Neil Gaiman penned series have nothing left on offer for me? After two straight misses, it seemed my interest in both Gaiman and The Sandman had waned to a flicker. This had been the one creation of his I could rely upon, turn to when I wanted reminded why it is that this man is popular to begin with, which is to say he’s no hack, rather he just does a good impression of one on...
jebiwonkenobi:
When I was little I thought being an adult meant not having a bed time but I’ve come to realize that it just means being in charge of my own bed time and it turns out that I am not equipped to handle that responsibility.
grinch-fingers:
I feel like I haven’t ever really meant anything to anyone. Everyone I’ve ever been with or had interest in has always moved on, and been happier, and found other people. I’m just sort of left here, acting like I’m fine, when in fact I feel like the loneliest, most pathetic person in the world. Well whatever, I’ll just carry on pretending like I’m happy and making everyone else...
the-chubby-nerd:
I don’t care who you fucking think you are If a kid wants to show you something they’re proud of, you better fucking act impressed I don’t care if it’s a small score on a video game or a piece of art made of nothing but blue paint or even a fucking fake burp You better fucking act like you just saw Jesus materialize out of thin air.
