Monday 31 October 2011

monday links (adventures, reading in the loo, long distance love)



I'm kicking off my stress-free November with things that make me happy. Like putting up fairy lights and trawling the internet for essays and poetry, truths and stories. Here is a selection of my favourites.


Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half.


Damien Rice covering I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Amazingly good.


For all book-lovers out there, a tongue-in-cheek article on whether reading on the loo is bad for you.


You know how well-written essays reduce me into a flailing mess of admiration and happiness? 
Well, here's one: Will Self wrote a stunning, heartbreaking essay on illness, addiction and mortality.  


Another thing I can't get enough of is spoken word poetry. Sarah Kay on long distance relationships.


And finally, when I was born, I was the 5,524,617,285th person alive. And the 80,727,002,777th person ever to have lived. What about you?

1 comment:

  1. thank you for the link to Sarah Kay's beautiful work. with 3000 miles between me and my love, I have felt so much of what she spoke about (though I've never been able to articulate it quite that elegantly)

    katy

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