a you-can't-fire-me-i-quit approach to baldness

i would not claim that i always have a definite non-paranormal explanation for every case that is put before me but there are usually several plausible possibilities. one thing to bear in mind is the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. there is also the possibilty of deliberate hoaxes.
'unreliability of eyewitness testimony' - and yet we put such stock in eyewitness testimony in the legal system.

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Q how do you come up with the cute names for the stuff in your collection?
A mythical lands in my head etc
- Rumi Neely

'i sometimes find it more satisfying for a girl to check me out than a guy to check me out'
'i've started to just smile at people because i've realised the power of smiling at another woman'
@nowness - when women look at other women on the street #thewaywedress #thefemalegaze

don't be afraid to be open minded. your brain is not going to fall out.

he knew why he wanted to kiss her. because she was beautiful. and before that, because she was kind. and before that, because she was smart and funny. because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she'd have to say about it - how many stars she'd give it and why.

'it's one of those things where i'm right, so i'm just going to keep stating my argument calmly. i'm reading [philosopher] Kierkegaard and truth is a power -- but it's A power, it's not THE power. people don't do it just because it's the truth, people do it because they're afraid.
everybody in this situation was afraid of getting in trouble, so that's why they were stopping me. they weren't listening, they didn't use common sense.'

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i am presently experiencing life at a rate of several WTFs per hour

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fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. and i don't tink it's an accident that it's typically seen as shallow, trivial and vain. it's the height or irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental.. and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. and it's a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that's inherently superficial and trivial. like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women's art form. and i think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
- Fashion is a Feminist Issue - Greta Christina

'i'm really trying to grow up the brand and appeal to a wider age group than just young, cool girls who can wear short lengths and want relaxed styles. i just make clothes i think are missing, what i want to wear and what my friends wnat to wear, what Mum wants to wear.'
- Kym Ellery
'you wanna be upper class, first class. but on a plane crash, everybody dead.'
- Kanye West

evolution rather than a revolution
the too-hard basket isn't for recycling
wearing our flag as a cape; a racist superhero
we're all boat people from the UK
Australia in the scheme of things; you're the Tasmania of the world
clicking likes; your protest for the week
i wish i had Synesthesia

sui generis

'we always have said we want our customers to buy into our product because they have an emotional connection to the garment, not because they are buying into a trend or something. there's heart in what we do and i know it sounds lame but it's the only way we know how.'
- Luke Sales, Romance was Born

'the online world is one thing ; make sure your connections and work become tangible at some point.'
@StreetEtuiquette

work for a cause, not for applause | live life to express, not to impress

injustice remains untouched by the ravages of time and commerce. imagine if Jay had lived through the release of The Blueprint and then got cut down right before dropping The Black Album. how many churches would have been erected in his honour? now he must contend with rumours about the Illuminati and faking a pregnancy.

as a true child of the Internet, he finds himself in a near-constant state of flux; a restless neo-artisan with a penchant for cross-pollination.

you're going to miss every moment of this.. of everything.
sometimes i feel like i'm already gone / ahead and im just vividly remembering everything that's happening in the moment. fur real. sometimes everything feels too familiar to be just happening for the first time. the show feels like that sometimes. you can't understand something totally and enjoy it at the same time, i think. but it's fun to not know all of it. everybody wants some magic. something they can't quite figure out.
the rules of the Internet are the rules of our new universal language like the Bible, like the Constitution, we make rules to break later and be better. pushing forward until we are all just a bodiless conscious, buzzing through the air trading information, conversing, testing ideas without fear or violence. free from limit. this is the moment we decide if we want to be the kid pouring salt on a worker's head at the sit in, or the kids sitting calmly in the face of what everyone else identifies as futility.
..or we can be the kid sitting back, just trying to eat. ignoring what's happening in front of them. not having an opinion until the aceptable choice is handed to you by people you don't know.
we have reached a moment wehre there is no 'real' because we don't care anymore we can curate what's real every day on our timeline feed. the boundary of what's real and what we want to be real is as volatile as the worth of our bitcoin or human heartbeat.
this is an important moment.
but be[a]ware that we are all making it up as we go. together.
our human collective unconscious.
our deep web.
learn [to/the] code.
they're arguing about driving, or cooking with coconut oil instead of olive oil, or something else they themselves will not care about or remember in a month, year, ten years, 100 years, the age of the universe.
it's not a very pretty or perfect love, or even necessarily a romantic love. it doesn't look cool. it's more like two helpless things in the wild, and one says 'i'll protect you', and both parties know it's a lie because there's no way either of them can protect the other from anything. that lie is the best way to describe this love. that feeling of not having to say 'i'm scared', because you share the exact feelings without having words over or under complicate it, that's worth more than protection. it's a connection. the less alone. this is all we look for on Earth.

- i'd like to say Holden Caufield, but that's untrue. i'm probably more Gonzo. he's just a weird dude that just wants to be liked. no one really knows what he is. he's into chickens. why is everyone hatin' on dude being into chickens?

we are the dreams of our parents lost in the future | who hide the deepest desires and wear a mask like a lucha
- Life: The Biggest Troll

make your own momentum
truly the Salvador Dali of our time
make a diagram of how art makes you feel
stop in front of a painting that you like. call someone you miss and describe it.
find something that you don't understand. embrace it.

'i knew you must be feeling strange. i think its the lack of comfort zone and the anonymity.' - a loved one

i wanted to read one last thing to you. it's actually something a good friend had wrote describing my world. it says:
'the caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it. its only job is to eat or consume everything around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city. while consuming its environment, the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive. one thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him, but praises the butterfly. the butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar.'
- 'Mortal Man', Kendrick Lamar

never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

'look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? you can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. if you believe in it,s that's what makes it cool' - Andre 3000
'find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. read books, pick your role models wisely. find out what they did and do it.' - Lana Del Rey

'coding is a beautiful thing. if there is a God, he definitely codes. there are fail-safes in the world. that's code. i don't want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers. even lawyers and doctors - those are service positions. i want them to be coders. they can make their own worlds then. they don't need anybody else. i love hearing those kids' ideas, all these kids on the Internet. the excitement of making something, that's the spark of God.' - Donald Glover

why Salvador Dali is his multihyphenate hero

'people are afraid things won't work. you work in the Arts! everything isn't supposed to work.'
- anonymous
@Steve_G_Lover

like it's crazy but the more i understand the world of art and commerce and fashion the more i realise how truly corny everyone is.
i used to take my cool for granted. never again. you shoudn't either.
when companies come for your cool make em pay. make it expensive for them to do you. whether its immediate or the long con make them pay.
i dont really mean money when i say expensive. i mean always make a company risk something pricey to associate with you.
just value your cool for reals people. don't let motherfuckers skate when they do shit that cheapens your cool like 'street style'.
required reading on the subject: http://genius.com/Outkast-hollywood-divorce-lyrics
@IbraLikeZebra

i often wonder how many good artists die in NY daily that we'll never discover because they suffered from a lack of distribution.
it's okay kid. it's okay to die cool and poor. let's stop 'failure' shaming people that live with their mama. do you.
know your worth. the money you're offered is rarely what you're worth anyway. power. power is what you want.
@IbraLikeZebra

Q i feel like crying all the time, what's wrong with me?
A you have an extreme case of human
@FamLikeFamily

(what's a conspiracy you believe but haven't told anyone because you don't want people to think you're crazy?):
- sometimes i feel like peole can read my thoughts. not always and i have a pretty wandering mind so hopefully this isn't true.
- i believe i'm a retard but everybody is pretending i'm not.
- i honestly believe i have a stutter. i don't really think about it, b ut i can sometimes catch myself saying the same words over again. it's not a big one or anything that will cause me to have social problems, but i would have repeated about a fifth of the words i've typed in this comment if i had been saying them aloud in a conversation. no one, and i mean no one, has agreed with me when i bring it up. also, i always feel like it's a task to tell a small story during a conversation. it kind of messes with me because i am always thinking in one straight, cohesive string. i don't stutter when i think, just when i speak.. sometimes.. i think.
- i believe i may have suffered a small stroke or some form of mild brain trauma because everything i do feels as if its in a fog. thinking, reading, hell even going about my day. i certainly don't feel as if i'm learning things as well as i could when i was younger starting some time in my junior year of high school.
- rocks are soft, they just tense up when touched.
- that our minds can see into the future its just not something we understand, we get very fast flashes of the future and then we live the event at some point in the future it feels like deja vu.
- the fashion industry was behind every political assassination of the last 200 years.
- sometimes i wonder if i'm actually yelling out all my thoughts really loudly and people just ignore me because they're used to it.
- Lyme disease was created as a means of biological warfare. we brought over tonnes of Nazi scientists after WW2, one of which was fascinated with using ticks and other insects as a means to spread disease. he was stationed on plumb island near Lyme, CT. a few decades after his arrival, the first incident of 'Lyme disease' occurred after people were bitten by ticks. i don't believe it was intentionally released into the public, but i do think it was an engineered bacteria.
- that time is a loop and we've all been experiencing the universe in the exact same order for eternity. thus meaning that when we die even though it may take an amount of time that we can't even fathom, our universe and everything in it will be delicately rearranged exactlly how it is / was / will be.
- that my life has already been predetermined and that everyone around me is just acting accordingly.
via

'A DECADE AFTER LAUNCHING THE GLOBAL FASHION BRAND WILLOW, AUSTRALIAN DESIGNER KIT WILLOW HAS EMBARKED ON A NEW JOURNEY WITH A PASSIONATE TEAM TO CREATE KITX.
“KITX IS COMMITTED TO BEING AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE STYLE FOR THE MODERN WOMAN IN A NEW GLOBAL ERA. AT THE CORE OF KITX ARE ITS ETHICS AND VALUES – WE SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE IN QUALITY WITHOUT HONESTY. THE INTEGRITY OF THE BRAND IS KEY AND THE HIGH-QUALITY, SEDUCTIVE, DESIGN-LED STYLE WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED.”
“I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN A BETTER WORLD THOUGH THE SIMPLE MANTRA OF MAKING WOMEN LOOK AND FEEL BEAUTIFUL WITHOUT HARMING OUR PRECIOUS PLANET. EVERYONE CAN WIN.” SAYS KIT
“KITX IS BORN FROM A SPIRIT OF KINDNESS, INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY WITH X REPRESENTING THE FUTURE. KITX WILL FOCUS ON CREATING SEDUCTIVE AND MODERN DESIGNS OUR CUSTOMERS WILL LOVE TO WEAR WHILE ALSO CARING ABOUT THE IMPACT EVERY DECISION HAS ON OUR PLANET AND ITS PEOPLE.”

'they have no idea what it is like to lose home at the risk of never finding home again | have your entire life split between two lands and become the bridge between two countries'
- 'first generation immigrant'
'you are waiting for someone who is not coming back | meaning | you are not living your life | hoping someone else will realise they can't live theirs without you | but realisations don't work like that'
- 'absence of logic and presence of pain'
- Rupi Kaur

'i just wanted people to get across something that they don't normally talk about, and why aren't they talking about it. i mean, i feel that way: why am i pretending to be Troy? wha am i rapping about puns? when actually, i'm araid that my parents are gonna die or i'm afraid that i'm going to be Tyrese [Gibson].
those feelings are the types of things that connect us, not showing the car you drove or the stack you have.
i used to have this fantasy that when i turn 78 i would do everything i hadnt done thus far. i'm going to do heroin, kill a person, blow dudes, just everything that's left to do in life. but as i get older, i realise that there's a good chance that i won't even make it to 78. first of all, i'm a black male. secondly, every male in my family has a lifespan of like mid-60s. so technically, i'm mid-life right now, even though i'm not that old.
but that's how i started looking at shit, so i started to wonder why i'm doing stuff.
why am i trying so hard to be nice to the guy at the ATM and making him not scard of me, or why am i not doing drugs, why am i living for other people?'
via

everbody's somebody's everything
nobody really cares if you don't go to the party
i like Charlie Murphy's description of a troll: 'Habitual Line-Stepper'
it's about who you miss at 2pm when you're busy, not 2am when you're lonely

'i hope i've never made it. i hope i never make it. i wake up every morning, and i'm like, i gotta fucking get this. i gotta be better. i gotta be better. i don't think i'll ever feel satisfied.'

'on the difficult days, when the world's on your shoulders, remember that diamonds are made under the weight of mountains'
- 'diamonds'
'i don't care if what we have will never be love. if we weren't together in a past life or written in the stars. all you need to know is that when my mind wanders off it is always home to you.
- 'wandering minds'
'it's a strange thing to see you now and be unable to recall how it felt to love you. like a half remembered dream, the essence of what we shared is there but the details are hazy. like a house i grew up in, you're still familiar to me, but the feeling of home is missing.'
- 'half remembered dream'
'the most painful part of losing you was that it didn't matter how close, how familiar we became with one another over the years, it only took a fraction of the time to become total strangers again - for the texture of your touch, the melody of your voice, to become a distant memory.'
- 'familiarity'
'you're a miracle, i still believe that. you just happened to someone else.'
- divine intervention
'i know behind that big brave front is something soft. something that dismantles whenever your song comes on. that still twists up tight when you hear his voice. your prescription, take care of yourself. eat well and rest up. love, like all illness, takes time to sweat out.'
- 'the fever'
- Beau Taplin

earlier this year, Kanye West told media that he hates to smile in photos because of an old book he picked up in a Paris flea market, that showed portraits of 19th Century nobility posing in staunch outfits while looking very serious.