MalaMujer

May 17

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running.” Haruki Murakami

May 4

“I want to say a little something that’s long overdue
The disrespect to women has got to be through
To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends
I wanna offer my love and strength to the end” “Sure Shot” - Beastie Boys (via rljada)

Apr 26

“He believed utterly that there are days in which it is revealed that someone has written a cruel story about you for their own entertainment. He believed, further, that on such days all you can do is follow, dumbly, with your knuckles grazing the ground.” The Autograph Man. Zadie Smith

Jan 9

“

Get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window
Hit that thing
Hit it hard

Make it a heavyweight fight

- Hank

” Amazon Kindle: Your Highlights

Dec 19

Entering the Palace of Bones (by Papa Sangre) a video game without video.

Dec 8

A diagram of nearly all the characters in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, with connections and relations shown thereamong. (via Infinite Jest Diagram.)

Nov 12

“The myth of scale is seductive because it is easier to spread technology than to effect extensive change in social attitudes and human capacity. In other words, it is much less painful to purchase a hundred thousand PCs than to provide a real education for a hundred thousand children; it is easier to run a text-messaging health hotline than to convince people to boil water before ingesting it; it is easier to write an app that helps people find out where they can buy medicine than it is to persuade them that medicine is good for their health. It seems obvious that the promise of scale is a red herring, but ICT4D proponents rely—consciously or otherwise—on it in order to promote their solutions.” Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty?

Wooster Collective: Seen on the Streets of Cusco, Peru

Nov 6

Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers (by Warp Records)

Oct 14

“Thomas Pynchon is one of the great unheard lyricists. His award-winning novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, is full of song lyrics. Depending on how you count, there are around 100 in the book. Over the course of a year, the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book managed to set twenty-eight of them to music.” The Thomas Pynchon Fake Book