Ninja Sex Poodle & Ronin of Love

Wow

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:33 -0400

Wow

"The desire to assess the effectiveness of [Open Space] is surely justified and rational. That said,..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:00:46 -0400

“The desire to assess the effectiveness of [Open Space] is surely justified and rational. That said, I’ve never really understood what would be gained. In my experience (the only point of reference I haveJ) – the “ OS results” are typically so far off the charts as to be “unbelievable.” To give an example, when my friends from AT&T designed their Olympic Pavilion in 1996 we had a very nice comparative measure. The same people had to design the building twice. The first time, using “standard procedures” took 10 months. The second time around, using OS – it was all done in 2 days. And all the designers, and everybody else I talked to agreed that the second effort was a major improvement aesthetically and structurally. Using the common criteria of “Increased Productivity,” we are looking at something like a 15,000% increase. The AT&T exec in “charge” called it magic – a fulsome client assessment. Now armed with this “data”, what do you think would happen were you to walk into the office of a potential new client and say, “How would you like some magic? An increase of productivity by 15,000%?””

- Harrison Owen, creator of Open Space Technology (my own experience, having a meeting organizer watch the agenda form: “It took me six weeks to create the schedule for the last event. You just did it in 15 minutes.” Except, of course, I didn’t. The group did.)

"We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:38:45 -0400

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”

- Diane Ackerman (via BrainPickings)

"In a lot of the chick lit, depicting women slightly older than me, the sexual maturity is that of a..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:25:39 -0400

“In a lot of the chick lit, depicting women slightly older than me, the sexual maturity is that of a nine-year-old, maybe. The sex is just this giggly and ridiculous activity one is subjected to in order to make a man stay in your house and marry you. There’s no honest expression of female sexual desire, the kind you find even in those old cheesy feminist manuals like Our Bodies, Ourselves. We’ve gone backwards.”

- Zadie Smith.

Pair with Smith’s 10 rules of writing.

(via explore-blog)

ninjalaptop: inthatinstantwewerealive: Old meets new Wow,...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:02:07 -0400

ninjalaptop:

inthatinstantwewerealive:

Old meets new

Wow, this is really cute.

"When two consenting adults who care for one another more than anything in the world commence to..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:19:18 -0400

““When two consenting adults who care for one another more than anything in the world commence to peeing on each other and whatever further acts of sexual depravity they can imagine, they can do so without risk of eroding the integrity of their relationship because when you respect someone, and you pee on them - THAT’S LOVE!””

- Matt Booth (Room 101 Cigars), in “Sucka fo’ Love”

"Process is about letting yourself be open to that which presents itself. You can force a process or..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:34:30 -0400

““Process is about letting yourself be open to that which presents itself. You can force a process or you can listen to a process…sometimes I think listening to a process will allow you to come up with an engagement or a connection that actually feeds you and your partner more because it’s more genuine.””

- @ControlEnthused speaking on “Rope Bondage: Process vs. Product” for @kinkacademy

"Modern Kung Foole Proverb “Unfortunately, it turns out that writing a monograph on cigar..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:49:59 -0400

“

Modern Kung Foole Proverb

“Unfortunately, it turns out that writing a monograph on cigar ashes makes the task of document preservation rather difficult.

“In retrospect, perhaps I should have used a more durable writing surface.” — Philip the Foole, 9 March 2012,

”

"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:08:20 -0400

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

- Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island (via freesoulfreethinker)

[_]3
(via shipwreckedinsc)

I is for Insertable

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:58 -0400

I is for Insertable:

Part of the A to Z Challenge, with one of my favorite pics ever.

testing tinyvoxTesting one two trees

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:59:44 -0400

testing tinyvox

Testing one two trees

"There has to be pain. That’s the rule."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:23:57 -0500

“There has to be pain. That’s the rule.”

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore (via adenoviridae)

teratomarty: Always reblog the perfect couple.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:14:07 -0500

teratomarty:

Always reblog the perfect couple.

helenavonsalome: “You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:51:33 -0500

helenavonsalome:

“You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.”
-Twain, Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 March 1878

(thanks, I needed that.)

"With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:12:08 -0500

“With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint… . it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.”

- Francine Prose: How to Read Like a Writer (via BrainPickings)

chaosghost: I like women to be ladies, and there are...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:07:30 -0500

chaosghost: I like women to be ladies, and there are...:

thegoddamazon:

chaosghost:

I like women to be ladies, and there are certain things ladies don’t do. Ladies don’t dress like two bit whores, ladies dont smoke cigarettes, and ladies don’t drink alcohol and get drunk.

Ladies should be ladies, not sailors.

Hi. I’m Aisha.

I’m a fucking Sailor and a fucking lady.

As a United States Sailor one of my jobs is to protect the rights of fuckwit American civilians like yourself, by killing terrorists and other people America considers a threat to their power.

I smoke. I drink. Sometimes I get a little tipsy. Luckily, there’s always a few Marines to walk me back to my barracks to ensure I don’t hurt myself…since I’m always sporting heels in my civilian clothes.

Sometimes, when I want to engage in the twenty-first century practice of being a free woman who is free to be as sexually active or inactive as she damn well pleases without the care of judgement of people who are NOT cutting her check, paying her bills, or otherwise contributing positivity to her life in any fashion, I dress like an erstwhile “two-bit whore”. Though, I must say, my sexual prowess cannot be bought…and even if it could, I assure you, you could not afford it.

So, OP, I hope you feel as dumb as your post sounds when I tell you it is possible to be a lady AND a Sailor and still be as flawless an individual.

This.

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:26:55 -0500

This.

Review: Njoy Pure Wand

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:22:58 -0500

Review: Njoy Pure Wand:

elspethdemina:

The Pure Wand monkey? Off my back. Review that took over a year to get the guts to write, and had me scared friends would revoke my sex toy reviewer card and never speak to me again, is up. Please don’t hate me.

Great review (both for honesty & style) of a great toy.

achickcalledl: africa-will-unite: “I will give you an example...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:30:49 -0500

achickcalledl:

africa-will-unite:

“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. [some whistles and cheers from the audience] Don’t hate the player, hate the game. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four black people. Who are these black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down, let’s break it down: me, I’m a decent comedian. I’m a’ight. [applause] Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a fucking dentist! He ain’t the best dentist in the world…he ain’t going to the dental hall of fame…he don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist. See, the black man gotta fly to get to somethin’ the white man can walk to.” Chris Rock

Yes.

rapedollieangelina: i’ve posted this before, but you can never...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:44:21 -0500

rapedollieangelina:

i’ve posted this before, but you can never have too much of an AMAZINGLY good thing. this may very well be one of my favorite pictures on the entirety of the internet. <3