Okabe
August 2012
July 2012
My Backwards Walk
Frightened Rabbit
My Backwards Walk
Frightened Rabbit
- Alfred: “I’ll get this to Mr. Fox, but no more. I’ve sewn you up, I’ve set your bones, but I won’t bury you. I’ve buried enough members of the Wayne family.”
- Bruce: “You’ll leave me?”
- Alfred: “You see only one end to your journey. Leaving is all I have to make you understand, you’re not Batman anymore. You have to find another way. You used to talk about finishing a better life beyond that awful cape.”
- Bruce: ”Rachel died believing that we would be together, that was my life beyond the cape. I can’t just move on. She didn’t, she couldn’t.”
- Alfred: ”What if she had? What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare you pain, I burnt that letter.”
- Bruce: ”How dare you use Rachel to try to stop me.”
- Alfred: ”I am using the truth, Master Wayne. Maybe it’s time we all stopped trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
- Alfred: I’m sorry..”
- Bruce: “You’re sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think that we’re gonna shake hands?”
- Alfred: ”No.. No. I know what this means.”
- Bruce: ”What does it mean?”
- Alfred: “It means your hatred and it also means losing someone that I have cared for since I first heard his cries echo through this house. But it might also mean, saving your life. And that is more important.”
- Bruce: “Goodbye, Alfred.”
The Mountain Goats - Snow Owl
the Mountain Goats - Snow Owl
the dice were loaded against us ever seeing each other
but one of us had nowhere else to go
- Batman: Hey I'm going to disappear for 8 years.
- Bruce Wayne: Hey I'm going to disappear for 8 years.
- People of Gotham: Shut up Bruce, we're trying to figure out who Batman is.
- Batman: I'M BACK!
- Bruce Wayne: ME TOO.
- People of Gotham: NO ONE CARES BRUCE. WHO THE FUCK IS BATMAN?
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via hotpielookedlikehotpie)
in the catholic ghetto, born and raised
at the playground is where I bullied most of the gays
relaxin chillaxin communion all cool
oppressing some minorities outside the school
when a couple of gays believed that they could
believed they could get married in my neighborhood
I said that they can’t and the world got mad
I told them i’d be the best president they’d ever had
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself. No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you’ll never see reflected what’s inside.”
—What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via beautifulmetamorphosis)
All I want to do is become Batman when i grow up.
Is that too much to ask?
“Wait a moment, here I have it. This: ‘Most men will not swim before they are able to.’ Is not that witty? Naturally, they won’t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won’t think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
—Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse (via ohtheseas)
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via troubled)
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via fotre)
“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It’s not about the burqa. It’s about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems.”
—Arundhati Roy (via jahanzebjz)
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On Thursday, the same day Louis Freeh, the former director of the F.B.I., issued his damning report about the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky’s sexual crimes by the Penn State hierarchy, the N.C.A.A. lowered the boom on — are you ready for this? — the California Institute of Technology.
One of the world’s great engineering schools, Caltech is never going to be mistaken for Penn State as an athletic force. With fewer than 1,000 undergraduates, it is a Division III school, which means, among other things, that it doesn’t grant athletic scholarships. Its basketball team ekes out about five wins a season, and its baseball team, according to The Times, has lost 227 games in a row. At Caltech, unlike your typical athletic powerhouse, “student-athletes” truly are students.
Part of being a student at Caltech means “shopping” for courses for the first three weeks of each trimester. Students are allowed to sample classes before they have to register for them. “During those three weeks,” read an N.C.A.A. press release issued on Thursday, “because they were not actually registered in some or all of the courses they are attending, some students were not enrolled on a full-time basis.” And part-time students, you see, are not allowed to play intercollegiate athletics. Between 2007 and 2010, according to the N.C.A.A., this happened with 30 athletes in 12 sports.
It would be hard to imagine a more frivolous violation of the rules — or one that could do less harm to the integrity of college sports. What’s more, Caltech turned itself in after a new athletic director realized that the practice of shopping for classes probably violated N.C.A.A. rules. Yet the punishment imposed on the school was severe: three years of probation, a postseason ban in a dozen sports, the erasure of wins and individual records that were gained with ineligible athletes, and more. Indeed, Caltech was cited for “a lack of institutional control,” which is pretty much the worst thing you can be accused of in N.C.A.A.-speak.
” —JOE NOCERA, the New York Times, “Throw The Book at Penn State.”
If nothing happens to Penn State, let there be cries of outrage.
(via inothernews)