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I’ve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what you’d look like on my table. Let’s start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they don’t have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. That’s how it works. And that’s very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. It’s dimply and cute. It’s not a defect. It’s not a health problem. It’s the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say — what, this is it? They’re kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because it’s unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or they’ll yelp. Adults sag. It doesn’t matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I don’t know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as you’re all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that “I can stop hanging on now, I’m safe” – a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and we’re easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: I’m in it for the glow. I’ll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.

What People Really Look Like (via jumbleofnotes)

Think about who you are beneath the skin.

In the most fundamental space you occupy, who are you? Write it down. We all need to be reminded that who we are is a fluid constancy, divorced from the form we are in.

(via bookoisseur)

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Humble advice from a 30 year old child

Most of this will be obvious to those who have already discovered it, and may sound preachy to those who have not yet. I wish that I could have been told and taken this to heart 15 years ago.

Be comfortable with yourself: No matter who else comes and goes in your life, you will always have you. You owe it to yourself to really get to know that person.

Never be afraid to take chances: Maybe it'll blow up in your face, maybe it'll be the best decision you've ever made - how do you know if you don't take the chance?

Learn from your mistakes: Things won't always work first time and they won't always go your way. Take what you have learned from it and come back stronger.

Celebrate the victories: Find something, anything, no matter how small, to celebrate every day

Find something that makes you happy: And when you find that something, give it your all! Don't give a damn about what others think of it!

This life is all we have: Seize it with everything you've got! If something makes you happy, embrace it. If something makes you sad, remove it.

Love with all your heart!: Accept that you will get your heart broken, and that there will be times when it feels like it has been ripped out and stamped on, but carry on regardless. Take time to console yourself when it happens, but then pick yourself up and start over again. Take those scars and use them to make you stronger.

Create a "Little Book of Happiness": Get a notebook and fill it with things that make you happy, whether that be quotes, memories, drawings, whatever. Whenever you feel down and everything looks bleak, you can look through that book and realise that there are good things. It sounds silly, but it works - I've done it myself :)

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Reflexions

Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times. May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of the quiet river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years. Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world know me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow the clamour of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evenings twilight find me gentle still. - Max Ehrmann

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I May Live On

Nagaraeba Mata kono goro ya Shinobaremu Ushi to mishi yo zo Ima wa koishiki I may live on until I long for this time In which I am so unhappy, And remember it fondly. - Fujiwara No Kiyosuke

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Proposal

Let's fall in love - In our mid-thirties It's not only Where the hurt is. I won't get smashed up Should you go Away for weekends - We both know No two people Can be completely All-sufficient. But twice weekly We'll dine together Split the bill, Admire each other's Wit. We will Be splendid loves, Slow, well trained, Tactfully, gracefully Unrestrained. You'll keep your flat And I'll keep mine - Our bank accounts Shall not entwine. We'll make the whole thing Hard and bright. We'll call it love - We may be right. - Tom Vaughan

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Invictus

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. - W. E. Henley

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Bloody Men

Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You're trying to read the destinations, You haven't much time to decide. If you make a mistake, there is no turning back. Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by And the minutes, the hours, the days. - Wendy Cope

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A fuckload of classic literature:

1984 by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dubliners by James Joyce

Emma by Jane Austen

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Grimms Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Swanns Way by Marcel Proust

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Gatsby

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Iliad by Homer

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Odyssey by Homer

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault

The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Duma

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ulysses by James Joyce

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Click on the motherfucking Hypelinks bitches.

Here! Have a fuckload of modern literature, too!

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Truman Capote

Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

Damned - Chuck Palahniuk

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Go The Fuck To Sleep - Adam Mansbach

I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert

I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

It - Stephen King

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov

Marked - Kristin Cast

Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

One Day - David Nicholls

Paper Towns - John Green

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan

Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Snow White And The Huntsman - Lily Blake

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Vampire Diaries: The Awakening - L.J. Smith

Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

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Oh, how I wish that I could be in LA for this...

A few years ago, a bunch of familiar faces shot a movie, called Kill Me Now, written by and starring Michael Swaim, (the guy from all of those funny Michael Swaim videos, including this one, which I wrote!). The movie was shot by Abe and features Nick Mundy, (Team Tiger Awesome), Jacob Reed,...

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Transcribing Lyrics.

Maybe I'm a bit of a weirdo, but I like to know what the lyrics to a song are. I have a tendency to dislike songs where I can't make out what it is the singer is actually saying. This is one of the reasons I don't much care for much of the death/thrash metal (I think that's the genre) that some of my friends favour - to me a lot of it is just screaming and grunting, and I can't relate to it. I like songs to have meaning, something I can connect to, not just a bunch of words. I like to know what it is that I'm singing along with (or attempting to sing along with as the case may be!).

Back when I was a teenager, I would listen to my favourite songs as many times as it took until I knew the lyrics by heart and could write them down. Nowadays, if I want to know the lyrics, normally a quick google search will find them pretty fast. However, when google fails me, it's back to the old school method.

One of the songs that I've been playing way too much recently is Epic-level Bard, sung by MS Werd (Michael Swaim) to promote him and The Gross Bugs playing a gig back in July. There's just something about this one - I love the rhythm of it, both the music and the words, and as a D&D player, obviously the lyrical content appeals to me too. The thing is that Michael doesn't tend to write his raps down - he sings them all from memory, which is an awesome feat in itself. Also, apparently no one else has written them down either. Either that, or google is messing with me. So enters my new challenge...

I think I've managed to get the majority, but there are one or two lines that I just can't make out. It is kind of driving me crazy because no matter how much I listen to those lines, my brain just doesn't make sense of what it is he is saying. It is very frustrating. Anyway, here's my attempt. Maybe if Michael sees it he will correct the lines that I've got wrong!

In an ancient age, in a forgotten realm, Orglan the warlock forged a helm of elven design and dwarven might, then founded a council of nine of the sagest minds and wisest mages he could find. They dedicated their lives to devising a mine that was so well designed and lined with feral creatures that no one would reach the fabled helm until the foretold time. They didn't say just exactly when that was, which gave us dismay as we dismembered the last of the rats of unusual distemper that attacked us. The rogue player had disabled the trap, and there it was on a dais under layers of black dust, stacked up like our XP had just done and dumbstruck with wonder, I mumbled "Fuck the plunder, man, ya'll don't understand". Seized the DM and handed him my stat card. He read it then said it, "You're an epic-level bard?!" Ever since the day being great has made (a grand falloon??) I stroke a single note, and ladies flood their pantaloons ?? I get enchampioned with a ... crisp barrage ?? The crew I used to call my party are now entourage I stop cold any whack imps action With a flow unslowed by wax impaction Behold the adipose champion of scansion Blowing pan pipes like ?? general toad in the magic mansion ?? Chastity belts prove unbreakproof And my lance of shock +2 gets through making them do the electric boogaloo from boo-hoo all the way to Tahiti My music runs from gamma to humanity, from comedy to tragedy and all points between, ?? what words chords .... ?? when sanguine humour is in your spleen? So, check, hook infectious look I don't think we really need the checklist My tunage'll sex ya, wreck ya, then cook ya breakfast Which sets us in a bit of quandary see, as a bard my job is to laundry list the hardest hits and deeds and daring do, in short report on freshness which is new But what to do, when the top eight spaces are occupied by tales of yours truly melting faces off of various races in a number of cases in a plethora of places, one time with no bassist. Can you hear me, oh, of course you can I sang you to stone so there you stand But its hard to tell, cause you're also mute A feat which I accomplished with a ditty on the lute So call my character Derrick cause I'm piercing DC Next to me you put the N into PC I can spew crude and pollute you like BP and cure all your wounds with a mood in the G key So stay close to make the most of this AOE And if a dude flanks me, someone call the tanks please! See, I'm a lover not a fighter And that's why I've decided to retire From the adventuring game Give other player parties a chance to advance their name and net some fortune and fame But don't fret, you can catch me on the outer planes On an extended tour for alien poontang You rang? Don't cry, I might come back Send me a letter if they ever raise the level cap!

And here's the link to the video in case anyone else can help! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXUEuweYmLg

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Stand back!

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Tanzanite from Tanzania

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Back in August, during a Springfield City Council public hearing on amending the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity protections, Rev. Phil Snider of the Brentwood Christian Church lashed out at the council for “inviting the judgement of God upon our land” by making “special rights for gays and lesbians.”

He goes on to invoke the bible and morality and the end of days a few more times before suddenly appearing to lose his train of thought.

And then something pretty amazing happens.

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A Perilous Turquoise Beauty

In Indonesia, a volcano called Kawah Ijen towers up 2,600 metres above East Java. At its peak is the world’s largest acidic crater lake, 200 metres deep and filled with the brilliant turquoise flames of burning molten sulfur. This sulfur comes from an active gaseous vent on the lakeshore, and it is capitalized on by local mining operations: the gases are capped by a network of manmade pipes so that the sulfur consenses into a molten red liquid, which then solidifies into pure, bright yellow sulfur. Under the light of the moon, pitifully-paid miners trek up the volcano and face the noxious fumes with barely any protection, quarrying the rich, solid sulfur deposits by breaking it into manageable chunks. They then carry sulfur-laden baskets (weighing up to 90 kg) out of the crater and several long kilometres down to the weighing station—not just once, but several times a day. The sulfur is used in a variety of industrial processes, including vulcanizing rubber and bleaching sugar. Miners extract approximately 14 tons a day, which, incredibly, is just 20 percent of the volcano’s awe-inspiring daily deposit.

Check out the full gallery by Olivier Grunewald

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Patagonia, Argentina.