The Most Amazing Poetry Ever

I'm not into poetry. Can't write the stuff, and it doesn't really appeal to me.

This guy is the exception, Rumi, an old Persian poet.

“When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,

Like this?

If anyone wants to know what ’spirit’ is,
or what ‘God’s fragrance’ means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.

Like this.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.

Like this?”

(Translation by Coleman Barks)

That's awesome stuff.

I'd Star In This

Never thought I'd See The Day...

...When Iran was more tolerant than we are. The Ayatollah Khomeini approved sex-change operations nearly 25 years ago, and now the Iranian government will pay for it.
It's interesting, as Andrew Sullivan noted, "Just chop it off and marry a man; or become a man and marry a woman
(or several). Ayatollah Khomeini approved of sex change operations a
quarter century ago. And here's a link
to a new documentary about several Iranian men who have become women -
in order to wear veils. It has a fitting title: "Be Like Others."
Transgendered identity and heterosexual normativity are allies. In
many cases, only a physical barrier exists to transgendered people
being fully integrated into heterosexual norms. But gay people, by our
very existence, violate such norms. And our persistence in not wanting
a cure - or seeing its desirability in any way - is what drives those
who hate us crazy. We like our gender. We just express it differently."

Pakistani Cowgirl

Spiritual Cowgirl is a blog run by San Fransisco woman, and is fabulous. She talks about everything from sashaying down the street in her tight yoga pants intent on voting to Lillith and Eve and the Apple to politics in Pakistan.
Go read it!

Dingbot Alert!

Ok so I found my 15 year old brothers essay. This is exactly word for word what he wrote!!!!



I bon't think That school unforms should be reQured. Thay are uncomfortable. someone con comeplan that thay are to big or small. Some unforms can be very echy. pople relly don't like the way Thay look. Thay can look funny and make pople git mad. Thay can be funny looking collers. Way to expenve for my mom. she can't bay two kinds of close.


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Ok so yes this is exactlty what he wrote, kind of makes you think what they are teaching in schools nowadays! He is a Sophmore for goodness sake! Well I guess that's all for now!

~Neko!

Davis Question

IF YouTube wasn't a bunch of douche bags, they'd let the views and ratings speak for themselves when it comes to answering the Davis Question. I'd vote for this guy--he brings up a lot of good points as to how to change the world for the better in 2008.
It starts, as the guy says, with ourselves. We cannot expect the world to change for us if we won't bother to change ourselves. If we all change ourselves, we change the way we wield power over and treat others (which, I think, is the prime source of all the world's problems).
We are constantly on the look out for our own best interest, and while that has its merits, we also should realize that others have their own goals and that we ought to help them achieve that if we can.
When we harm others, it's most often for out own goals, and we tend to treat others as a means to our own ends. We need to adjust our thinking so that others are an ends in and of themselves and should

Dear Me, I'm Late- Intro To Me

Seeing as I've not posted anything whatsoever here, I thought I would start as my fellow bloggers have and post an introduction to myself.

I'm a collegiate retail zombie who doesn't drive. For the most part, I reside in a world made up of pop culture artifacts from the past, present, and future. I have a weakness for all things campy and cute.

And I've never been a part of a shared blog before, so bear with me.

And that, Ladies and Gents, is The Apple Poisoner.