Stuck in reverse

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

…

 

- COLDPLAY

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Spleen

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle
Sur l’esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,
Et que de l’horizon embrassant tout le cercle
II nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;
Quand la terre est changée en un cachot humide,
Où l’Espérance, comme une chauve-souris,
S’en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Et se cognant la tête à des plafonds pourris;
Quand la pluie étalant ses immenses traînées
D’une vaste prison imite les barreaux,
Et qu’un peuple muet d’infâmes araignées
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux,
Des cloches tout à coup sautent avec furie
Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement,
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie
Qui se mettent à geindre opiniâtrement.
— Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,
Défilent lentement dans mon âme; l’Espoir,
Vaincu, pleure, et l’Angoisse atroce, despotique,
Sur mon crâne incliné plante son drapeau noir.
— Charles Baudelaire

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carpe diem

1 Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
2 finem di dederint, Leuconoe,
3 nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. Ut melius, quicquid erit, pati,
4 seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
5 quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
6 Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
7 spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas:
8  carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

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Perplessita’

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Funny Faces: smile!

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Funny Faces: root monsters

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Funny Faces: astonishement in wood

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Funny Faces: smirking heart

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 56 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 175 posts.

The busiest day of the year was May 17th with 118 views. The most popular post that day was W 18/52: zombie.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were networkedblogs.com, flickr.com, koalanation.wordpress.com, woodstock75it.wordpress.com, and mail.yahoo.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for two roads diverged in a wood, koala immagini buffe, “give you a scratch”, la primavera shoes malaysia, and “funniest happy birthday card”.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

W 18/52: zombie May 2010
1 comment

2

W 17/52: not frightened May 2010

3

W02/52: I come undone January 2010
1 comment

4

W09/52: distortions March 2010
1 comment

5

W 30/52: hold me tight August 2010

Fubby faces: glass face

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