December 2008
6 posts
words to know
Metonymy (IPA: /mɨˈtɒnɨmi/) (from the Greek meta-, “after”, “beyond”, nym, name) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.[1]
Metonymy may be instructively contrasted with metaphor. Both figures involve the substitution of one term for...
poem blah blah blah
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring...
best quote on viacom layoffs.
first they came for gideon yago, and i said nothing, because ha ha, fuck gideon yago
Proof Gabe Delahaye is a super genius.
“The point is that if you love someone you have to set them free, but if you hate someone you also have to set them free. Fly away little Tila Tequila”
m drops some science, part two:
and. for some reason, this has really hit me weirdly hard. i’ll admit, i was living on the notion that good behavior would be rewarded. It. Just. Doesn’t. Work. That. Way.
m drops some science:
you are not entitled to anything. just because you live an honorable life, it doesn’t mean that you deserve certain happy outcomes. one isn’t related to the other.
do you deserve to be happy? yes. does that mean you’ll get the happiness you deserve? no. stop expecting outcomes to happen just because you think that if you work hard enough at life, you’ll make them happen. a...