tank girl oakland,ca anticonsumerist / feminist / crafter / hedonist / reader & writer / recovering addict / bike love /altered consciousness / learning to walk not talk /learning to do more think less / whose terms will you live on? +portfolio +ask me +twit +book life +lj +musicTumblr (3.0; @pasunepipe)http://blog.jmm.nu/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpqgh8NHhb1qzs4d0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://electricorchid.tumblr.com/post/8750186817" target="_blank">electricorchid</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Stemonitis fusca</em> is a rather marvelous species of slime mold that carries its jelly-like spore-forming fruiting bodies on curious stilts | photo by Nick Cantle | <a href="http://www.nickcantle.com/" target="_blank">+</a></p> </blockquote> ‘Mazin world.http://blog.jmm.nu/post/9294034721http://blog.jmm.nu/post/9294034721Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:22:00 -0700“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”<br/><br/> - <em>(via <a href="http://internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">internal-acceptance-movement</a>)</em>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/9293639602http://blog.jmm.nu/post/9293639602Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:04:51 -0700beautyempowerment<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lny362mIU01qz9lolo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/7335481107http://blog.jmm.nu/post/7335481107Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:14:58 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln2fcuJA9E1qg77c6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hellabay.tumblr.com/post/6708235075" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">hellabay</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/5851234278_5e1d2d0861_b.jpg"/></span></p> <p><span><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2695/5850680579_2fd5a51a76_b.jpg"/></span></p> <p><span>downtown oakland</span></p></blockquote>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6774926170http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6774926170Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:16:19 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln2qd4qv2A1qb14j3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://seandackermann.tumblr.com/post/6714818895" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">seandackermann</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Airplane long exposure photos by Terence Chang</p> <p><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/amazing-long-exposure-airplane-photography" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/amazing-long-exposure-airplane-photography" target="_blank">www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/amazing-long-exposure-airplane-photography</a></a></p></blockquote>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6774750066http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6774750066Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:11:08 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln3wb6ppIq1qfh2x9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://poakichizikamandizi.tumblr.com/post/6732990589" target="_blank">poakichizikamandizi</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>US-Mexican Border</p> </blockquote>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6771292650http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6771292650Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:25:43 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmxfa2U6tP1qgdsopo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6770638411http://blog.jmm.nu/post/6770638411Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:05:31 -0700“OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like; <br/> To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except as it results to their Bodies and Souls, <br/> So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked; <br/> And often, to me, each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself, <br/> And of each one, the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots, 5<br/> And often, to me, those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities, <br/> And often, to me, they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more, <br/> And often, to me, they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules, walking the dusk.”<br/><br/> - <em>Walt Whitman, “Thought”. 1867.</em>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5920345517http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5920345517Fri, 27 May 2011 21:21:01 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llv4hlCNvw1qa5pxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Richardson’s Bay, Sausalito, CA</p>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5900188623http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5900188623Fri, 27 May 2011 09:29:46 -0700san franciscosausalitorichardson's bayboatssailingmorning<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lls15texq91qa5pxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5849277985http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5849277985Wed, 25 May 2011 21:25:05 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll5kgdDPIm1qa5pxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Diggin this one. West Oakland</p>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5459235396http://blog.jmm.nu/post/5459235396Fri, 13 May 2011 18:17:05 -0700“[People] directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas - hard creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another’s opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Jack London, <em>Martin Eden. </em> (via <a href="http://trembleoftheheart.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">trembleoftheheart</a>)</p> <p>This book was fucking excellent. Pure truth.</p></em>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4977411678http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4977411678Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:48:06 -0700jack londonoakland<p>Man, there sure is a downside to being interested in ideas and reading about them then having realizations and adjusting your beliefs/actions/goals/lifestyle accordingly, because it alienates you from so many of your peers. Just, shedding people left and right lately. Nothing personal. This momentum is delicate. Jack London made me do it.</p>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4977331486http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4977331486Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:43:00 -0700culturealienationjack londonthe iron heelmartin eden<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk60owW4Cf1qa5pxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4898868256http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4898868256Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:31:47 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljaze17VSs1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theweightofdayspast.tumblr.com/post/4429611771" target="_blank">theweightofdayspast</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/4424945801" target="_blank">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://viacomit.net/2011/04/08/insight-%E2%80%9Cuntitled%E2%80%9D-campaign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=insight-%25e2%2580%259cuntitled%25e2%2580%259d-campaign" target="_blank">Indeed</a></p> </blockquote> <p>best sign in the history of signs. hands down.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4723459189http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4723459189Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:37:16 -0700“Here’s to the wind that blows, the ship that goes and the girl who fears no danger.”<br/><br/> - <em>Catherine Campbell. (via <a href="http://somelargerway.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">somelargerway</a>)</em>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4592783127http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4592783127Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:01:15 -0700<p><blockquote>Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,<br/>Healthy, free, the world before me,<br/>The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.<br/>Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,<br/>Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,<br/>Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,<br/>Strong and content I travel the open road<br/><br/>[…] From this hour, freedom!<br/> From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,<br/> Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute,<br/> Listening to others, and considering well what they say,<br/> Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,<br/> Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that<br/> would hold me. <br/><br/> I inhale great draughts of space;<br/> The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are<br/> mine. <br/><br/> I am larger, better than I thought;<br/> I did not know I held so much goodness.</blockquote><br/>—Walt Whitman<br/><em>Song of the Open Road</em><br/><a href="http://swellvoyage.com" target="_blank">source</a><br/><br/>YES</p>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4488430282http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4488430282Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:36:00 -0700walt whitmanpoetrybeautifulappropriate<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj8nnaZcQP1qa5pxzo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Written in 1985. Still totally relevant. A great read.</p>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4392249246http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4392249246Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:11:33 -0700neil postmantelevisionshow businessamusing ourselves to death<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj5c2b8dD21qidcsso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4392221882http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4392221882Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:09:51 -070024-hournews cycleamusing ourselves to death<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj6ve9vqSR1qa5pxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4368128272http://blog.jmm.nu/post/4368128272Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:03:00 -0700spray cangraffitipaperjulian valleerainbowblack