Merry Christmas, sleepherealone!

..., Patrick's not even sure he wants to know. "So hey. Do we actually work on the album or you wanna go take a shower with me?" And that's what Patrick likes about Gabe. The utter frankness, the unwillingness to jump around the subject. He comes right out and says it and he just asks Patrick if he wants to. It's refreshing. "I guess you should get naked first," Patrick hears himself saying, ...

Dumpling Party

... to mean dead. Taiwanese uses a phrase that roughly translates to "left their body behind". They feel that Taiwanese idioms have a delicacy and sensibility that is absent from Mandarin's more brutal frankness. I think it's rather like the English language's uneasy combination of Anglo-Scandinavian base words and the French added into it from the Norman French conquering and ruling England for a ...

anyway

.... Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Be good anyway. honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People need help but may attack you if you try to help them. ...

2010

...selfish ulterior motives. DO GOOD ANYWAY. If you are successful, you will false friends and true enemies. SUCCEED ANYWAY. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. DO GOOD ANYWAY. HONESTy and FRANKness make you vunerable. BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. THINK BIG ANYWAY....

Happy Thansgiving

...Not Simple . Out of all of her works, I have to say that Not Simple is her most poignant-- not only is it heartwrenchingly sad, her minimalist style gives it a sense of tempo and stark frankness that is rarely seen in any other manga or comic. It's expressive without being excessive, which is what most comics seem to become trapped in. Every panel is distinct and deliberate, and there's nothing ...

The Backlog, Part One (September Reading)

... skepticism into belief, and you're not going to be immune to that. You have to be open to the possibility that this semester is going to be bigger than you think." (p14) Roose's frankness about the participatory nature of his semester (culturally) abroad is a key point: he talks about the changes in his perspective and ingrained behaviors as a result of obeying Liberty's stringent written and ...

Precious

...'s drawn to uncomfortably frank subject matter. What he proves with Precious , which also has the unnecessarily awkward subtitle Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire , is that he infuses that frankness with a fresh, if often jarringly tragic, humanity. And he draws out terrific performances from all his actors. What's astounding about his supporting players is how seamlessly blend into this ...

...plans, post-sex, you better be getting the hell out of that vivarium. He's good at keeping up pretenses and at keeping certain things private. Mary Sue afterglow does not justify this. Especially weird when he's turning into this champion of frankness and honesty to Rorschach. (Also, am I alone in thinking that finding out about the whole Karnak deal post-sex would be a major mood killer?)

Oneshot: Good Fortune

...?” “You make it sound as if it is torture to let me hold your hand, Sango,” Miroku chided, provoking another blush from her. “No, it’s nothing like that,” she murmured, embarrassed by his frankness. “Continue.” “Where was I?” He returned his attention to her hand, staring at it intently for a few moments. “Ah, yes. The fingers are also important when analyzing a person’s fortune. Each finger ...

Fic: Show Me Chater 4

...Catherine didn’t wake up she turned her attention to Sara again. “She likes you too,” Lindsey smiled at the brunette before putting her head back down on the couch. It took Sara a minute to recover from the frankness of Lindsey’s statement. Sara turned back around making her way out of the house. Lindsey couldn’t possibly mean … no … Catherine could never have feelings for her. Could she ...