Wrenched into the world, deanesthetized,
Blurry images fight their way through halway opened eyes
Awakened by alarm, fifteen minutes of hygiene
Twenty minutes of eating, thirty seconds to the door.
I looked outside, I looked into the eyes
Of the impersonal mob I’ve seen a thousand times before
Feeling under covers like books on a shelf,
If we’re scared of one another,
Must be scared of ourself,
More than just another crowd, we need a gathering instead.
Drink drink in the badland, liquid bread for the poor
Another member of the crowd goes down to drown at the liquor store
Choose your escape in the heartland
Of products and demand when you feel like a wasp in the swarm
You gotta get away any way that you can.
I am convinced that The Devil & God are Raging Inside Me
is one of the greatest albums ever written. Now I wish more than 5 people at UD appreciated this band
The Earth Laid Bare
Check this out, its my brother’s new band. Super heavy, super brutal. And they’re 15. Give em some props, even if you don’t listen to metal
we are unusual and tragic and alive: You -Can't- Explain That
COLBERT: Worse yet… worse yet the leftie blogosphere has ridiculed Bill by pointing out that the moon causes the tides and that we’ve known that for centuries. Well it’s humble pie time, people who took ninth grade science.
Father O’Reilly, take ‘em to Sunday school.
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HOW TO WRITE GOODLY LIKE
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules.
1. Avoid Alliteration—occasionally it ok.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
4. Words, words, words: employ the vernacular. Avoid the colloquial or informal language, they totally suck and make the reader tune-out. Owe yes, be sure you know what a word means that you use. Do not try to hegemony the reader with fancy words unless you are sure how to properly use them. It makes you appear an aggregate of dumblikeness.
5. Eschew ampersands & and abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. That is unless in English it is hard conveys the word or phrases particular meaning.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Do not over due quotations. Use the only the best ones. If you can do without it—then do so. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. Say what you want and get on with the next sentence, after all it become confusing, and difficult to follow, actually hard to read, that is if the reader continues to read, and by that I mean all the way to the end. Do not try to say too much in a single sentence.
19. Paragraphs have more than one sentence! On the other hand, unless your Proust they usually have less than a half a page long.
20. Paragraphs are mini-essay. They have an opening and conclusion. They should be focused on one or two things.
