You Don’t Just Discover You’ve Lost Weight and Not Eat Ice Cream

So today I weighed myself and discovered I was down a couple of pounds. I didn’t trust the scale so I adjusted it and tried again. The weight went back up 2 pounds but was still lower than before. I took that as a sign that I needed to eat even more ice cream and quickly wiped off a pint, drowned in chocolate syrup. Not that I’ve ever needed a reason to.

New York Subway

The Pakistan that was

For more, see:

http://dawn.com/2012/02/09/also-pakistan-2/
http://dawn.com/2012/05/24/also-pakistan-ii/
http://dawn.com/2012/07/26/also-pakistan-iii/comment-page-3/
http://dawn.com/2012/08/09/also-pakistan-iv/comment-page-6/

Hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you are.

Damon, TVD.

What if Disney villains were beautiful? (“Beauty” being narrowly, shallowly defined, of course!)

Source: http://imgur.com/DY6DTxn

The need to love is as important a force in human society as is the will to power. Power wants to destroy or consume or drive away the other, the one who is different, whose will is different. Love wants the other to remain, always nearby, but always itself, always other.

Margaret Trawick
(For square pegs in round holes)

As in grammar two negatives make an affirmative, so in matrimonial morality two prostitutions pass for a virtue.

Fourier

I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know,
Everything that’s shine ain’t always gonna be gold (hey)
I’ll be fine once I get it, get it in, I’ll be good.

Tell me what you know about dreamin’ (dreamin’)
You ain’t really know bout nothin’ (nothin’)

Being called a girl is an insult. An example of how the male version of a word becomes the default.