Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2013

New Look! And New Obsession: Video Bloggers

This post is exactly how it sounds.

John Green looks like this right here. And this left here is Hank Green. Hank and John are both real fuckin' smart. John has a double major in English and Religious Studies. Hank has a Bachelor's in biochemistry and a Master's degree in environmental studies.





Now, these clowns in 2007 realized that they didn't talk at all except through text. They decided that they should communicate through a vlog for one year. And through this blog, Nerdfighteria was born! Basically, their blog (vlogbrothers) became super famous. These idiots then used this fame not to do stupid things but to educate! To donate to charity! To make the world better!

They do a lot of silly things like "giant squid of anger" and "peanut butter face" but they also take North Korea and Syria and  Egypt and break them down into five minute historical videos put into language that kids actually take interest in.

John Green even runs the channel Mental_Floss (for the magazine) where he teaches you things in lists (e.g. 50 common historical misconceptions).

Hank Green runs several different channels such as scishow (which explains things like tornadoes and evolution!) sexplanations (which helps people become comfortable and tolerant of both their own and other people's sexuality) and hankschannel (where he pretty much talks about whatever he wants.)

I just think it's amazing what these two people have done. They're both so intelligent and in different ways. Hank green runs the website ecogeek, and he can actually explain things like why the sky is blue. John Green taught me the difference between "less" and "fewer" which I had no idea existed, and he writes beautiful things like this (and fuck you, by the way, because I haven't even read TFIOS yet and it makes me sad):


There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

 I just cannot explain how much I admire these people. They are both very wealthy in money and in knowledge and they use it to get people to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities or to set up their very own day (in honor of one of their fans who died of thyroid cancer at 16) in which they tell family and friends they love them. They're just good people. They're good, smart, silly, well-rounded people. Hank sings songs about Harry Potter and he is a biochemist! John Green teaches history via youtube and wrote a love story about two teenagers with cancer.

I just love them so much. DFTBA


Sunday, July 7, 2013

el amor y otros monstruos

And so, being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013


Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Mi ancla tú serás.

Extraña es la imagen que doy;
Me quieren cambiar a la moda de hoy,
Pero tú me abrazas donde estoy
Y es que tú me amas tal y como soy.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

This haiku, guys.

This haiku right here.

You learned of my pain
And said you'd try to fix me.
That wasn't your job.

Then let's go with some more Tyler Knott because his words are beautiful and mine are not.

Love bravely,
Love without 
borders or fear.
Follow your heart
no matter the cost.
No matter
the cost.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Lack of sleep.

I was going to write about some things I found in my room, but I don't want to anymore. They are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and instead, because right now I favor the words of others over the words of my own, enjoy one of my favorite poems of all time.

Patterns - Amy Lowell.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Can we just talk about this poem?

Some brave souls
choose to wear
their hearts
on their
sleeves,
but I,
brave or stupid
or perhaps
both,
have chosen instead
to wear mine
on yours.

- Tyler Knott Gregson.