gone paleo
August 2010
58 posts
“What ‘Orwellian’ has become, primarily, is a weapon. It dresses up ‘You’re a liar!’ in intellectual clothes that make the liar sound like a fascist.” —Mark Peters on the misuse of the author’s name, which has evolved into a “synonym for the totalitarian doublethink [Orwell] attacked in 1984.” Peters’s prescription for what can be done to restore its original meaning? “Zip, nada, and diddly.”
—http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/misappropriating_the_word_orwe.html
rollover reaction
n. when your dream about someone you know skews how you feel about them all the next day, an emotion you are unable—and unwilling—to shake.
Women Who Hit Hard →
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“Now I have to be at least 85 to 90 percent at my best from the beginning of a tournament. Venus and Serena raised the bar for everyone. We all had to go back to the gym. Younger players saw that, and now they’re hitting harder and harder.”
Second Nature Fitness: WCS Blog Vol 3: Three Quick Fitness Myths (or Why You Aren't on the Cover of a Muscle Magazine) →
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Another re-post from the WCS days. This article probably inspired more “whaaats?” and “but I read in Mens’ Health…”Than any other article I’ve written. It’s just common sense. Get to readin’.
It is undeniable that we live in an age of boundless information: the internet allows us access to…
“Cancer, like insanity, seems to increase with the progress of civilization.”
—Stanislaus Tanchou (via forcedistancetime)
Rad Homemakers on the Stead: Ketchup Disconnect →
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“What’s this?”
“Ketchup”
“It doesn’t taste like ketchup…”
“What does it taste like?”
“Tomatoes”
Fermented Ketchup6 large tomatoes
1 6oz can tomato paste
1 celery bunch
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tbsp all bay spice
1 tbsp whey
Chop tomatoes and stew in their juices,…
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”
—Federico Garcia Lorca (via crashinglybeautiful) (via kathleenjoy)
Second Nature Fitness: What is Physical Culture? →
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From Eugen Sandow’s Strength and How to Obtain It (1897):
“‘And what is physical culture?’ is naturally the question which arises to the lips of those to whom the subject is still unfamiliar…it is to the body what culture, in the accepted sense of the word, is to the mind. To constantly and…
“Put the rake down. I don’t wanna sit around watching you ‘give it your best.’ Either stop sucking or get the fuck out of the way.”
—Shit My Dad Says… (via forcedistancetime)
