Clayton Runs

sometimes i get too lazy to write out my thoughts so i stare at a blank piece of paper for awhile thinking about what i’d write if i weren’t so lazy.

Leanne Fogg is the worst person I’ve ever met in my life.

Listening to beck’s odelay and drinking tea. Way to finish strong Sunday, atta girl.

artismyhustle:

Salvador Dali

“I don’t do drugs, I am drugs”

(via seababble)

Source: architectureblog

Dear Mainstream Media,

Please stop trying to turn the terrible tragedy into a political issue.

Dear every politically charged individual with a blog,

Please stop pushing an agenda to a reader base through a medium where credibility is unnecessary and fact checking non-existant.

What happened in Arizona was horrific. A man with an idea and a gun caused the death of multiple Americans that day.

This wasn’t a tea partier misinterpreting a campaign ad. This wasn’t an extreme leftist who hates America shooting a (Democratic) Congresswoman.

Too much of our time is spent these days trying to place every conflict, every moral decision into the public realm. To sell everything as a news story. Everything becomes a black and white issue. Right and Wrong, New and Old, Democrat and Republican, Left vs. Right, Rich vs. Poor, Big vs. Small. Every private issue suddenly defines who you are for the world to see.

Yes, Jared Lee Loughner read the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. Ignoring the fact that he also listed Animal Farm and Peter Pan, how many of the people stating opinions on his reading material have actually read the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.

I’m scared that a girl on Twitter who took a class with Loughner 4 years ago is being cited as a credible source by many blogs.

I’m scared of the internet and what it can show the world. I am glad that I can communicate with my friends and family often times easier than I would expect. I enjoy that a video of cats playing high five or a photo of a house on a lake can find their way across the internet and to my desk. But, I’m scared of the people who have the power on the internet, everyone.

Back when I was still on Facebook, I used to play small pranks on my family members and post statuses about me breaking my leg. Needless to say, after receiving many phone calls to clarify, the joke got old.

Now think about someone on Google following the shooting. They go to the news results and can find themselves on a sharp looking website on the internet reading in many cases, what they want to hear, whether or not they agree with it.

I don’t think it’s right to say that I don’t think we should talk about politics on the internet, quite to the contrary, I think it’s a great part about our society. However, I don’t like all this preaching about politics on the internet. It’s gross and sickening.

I was never a fan of W. Still am not. But I also was not a fan of all the radio hosts and blogs and web videos making fun of the guy either. Not in any sort of “I love this country, respect the President kind of way,” but in a more “yeah, it doesn’t work but let’s do something about it kind of way.”

I was inspired by Obama. I still am. I’m more impressed by the tea party though. Argue what they are in favor of, but the sheer creation and rise of that group has been impressive over the past 2 years. But then again, the problem is that now I find myself sitting on the internet finding tea party sites and blogs preaching to their followers about what they should believe in. The best part two, there’s not much of a tea party “canon.” Anyone can start their own tea party group and gain traction claiming to represent the group as a whole.

I don’t like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. I enjoyed him on Sportscenter and occasionally Rachel will make me laugh but too often I watch the show and wonder about the language they’re using. It often feels a little bit preachy.

I know that they say that you should look at both sides of an issue before you decide. I think that’s bullshit. That’s not the way we work. We’re not set to a default neutral setting. We use of prejudices and experiences to make decisions. It’s a great thing about humans, often times we can make decisions quicker and easier. But I have a better idea:

Before you decide on anything, go experience it. Don’t simply read the news, go see it for yourself. With your own two eyes and two ears and two feet and two hands and one nose. Then, make the decision. I understand that oftentimes it’s hard to gather the resources to see the conflict in action but try. Get as close as you can. Don’t let someone tell you about it. That’s like casting votes for the Oscars based off what a 13 year old girl tells you about each movie.

We’re amazing things, us human beings, we can experience so much more than we allow ourselves to. But we don’t. And we suffer.

There is hope for us, we can change the way the world sees us by changing the way we see the world.

ridesabike:

Bill Murray steals a bike.

Rushmore!

abteen:

Whenever you can’t sleep, just look at how comfortable this guy looks.  Let it seduce you into bed.