heteroglossia:

6.11.13

Finding, with increasing certainty, that I am approaching that edge (of acceptable/felicitous “human” behavior). I lack the ability to mime. To resign my one, infinitesimal and unrepeatable life to this: A structure set and kept by others. And yet there are no spaces for us few, nothing external to or outside this system.

politicalhouse:

More than 1,000 federal rights and securities are denied to couples in same-sex marriages not legally recognized by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, says Vickie Henry, senior staff attorney at Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD. GLAD is a leading advocacy group in the campaign to strike down DOMA.

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(Source: today.com)

knights-of-camelot:

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

(Source: whatfaggot)

Was there a church in prison?

There was… but I was only ever allowed visits by the chaplain.

Oh, you’d meet with him?

I would’ve met with the executioner had he stopped by.

What sort of things would you talk about? I mean, with the chaplain?

Flannery O’Connor, for one. He was a big fan.

Did you ever talk about where you think you’ll go when you die?

It was kind of expected in the setting.

Did you come to any conclusions?

That it wasn’t worth pondering.

But of course it is! It’s what makes us human.

I think what makes us human is the ability to choose to ponder, or not to ponder.

Free will?

Yeah. I focused on preparing for the act itself, rather than the result of the act.

The act…?

Of dying… of letting go.

Why can’t you do both?

Some do…

But why can’t you, if it is a choice?

Finding peace in not knowing seems strangely more righteous than the peace that comes from knowing.

Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche New York

(via jonndlr)