June 2010
1 post
Dump
I just want it out of me. I just want these words to stop pounding at the back of my eyes and distracting me and making me fall in love with every little picture and line and quip and piece of poetic license that I run across that tugs at my heart. I love them like I should love those close to me. They are my amplification of the ways that I don’t understand how to feel. They are more a part...
March 2010
8 posts
You’re taking up space, man, in this heady quick world of kickshot hearts. And the taste of blood is stirring on your lips but you’re too busy wondering what that sound is and what it means and how long it’s going to drag the feeling out of your ears. You’re alive on the ground and slick-shoed and wet from a three-foot tongue that doesn’t let you stand up straight because your knees were too...
February 2010
10 posts
sexmusic:
rosyln // bon iver & st. vincent
...
Joe Purdy - He Said, She Said
This one’s...
annabeck:
my version of neutral milk hotel...
Barr - Complete Consumption Of Us Both
yvynyl:
Seth Augustus - Trickeries of the Great...
Close Quarters Combat
In my head, I’m shouting. I’m saying all those things that scare me, that eat at me. I’m screaming at the top of my lungs for whitewashed freedom and something that breaks this tattered silence.
“I don’t want this life. I don’t want the mundane and the simple. I hate that couch and these walls and what they have done to both of us.”
But I haven’t...
…and so I’m sleeping on the couch again. This is more than three months, and my back is killing me and my chest is heavy, and my brain is on fire. This isn’t what I’d imagined. This is killing me. You’ll never understand.
I just want to disappear for a few days. Go someplace high. Where I can see everything. Where I don’t have to feel alone.
“I’ve got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck
Than any boy you’ll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me” -PATD
Our whirlpool thoughts wash waters grey and false and thoughtless. Smoke rings skate the night sky, blown from deep in our hearts. We will not back down, nor scream, cry “Yield!” With rope ladder veins and coppery breath we will burn and seethe. Until the scars of our skin and the bruises on our necks tout “We have known love, in all it’s dirty glory.”
January 2010
5 posts
These lights are way too bright, and the air makes me feel deserted. Like my skin is peeling off in morbid little chunks. I’m sick with your thoughts plastered drunk, neurons firing. I think if we vibrate hard enough we can become molecules. And your skin will become my skin and the blood that seeps out of me will be littered with tiny daggers and car antennas. We’re never what we...
Toothpaste
You said that you hated your hair
And the broken glass of my thoughts shattered in the sink
We were bristles and foaming comfort
“A very domestic activity”
When I found my keys and cigarettes
You sighed
And I didn’t sigh that cold and lonely breath
Locked inside the back of my throat
Held hostage by my tongue
And I couldn’t speak
Because I am an idiot when it...
I wish I was this talented. Wow.
dreamnoises:
it was a loft room in some barn. everything was white with snow outside. we had to climb a ladder to get to where you were, sitting in your wooden room with big windows. you were looking at the forest below. watching for animals in the forest below. we startled you as we climbed. you thought we were animals from the forest with our strange noises...
December 2009
3 posts
To play the part of God
We recruited Christian Slater
Because he was available
And for the part of Mary
We chose you
Because of your vindictive wit
It wasn’t very long before we figured out that
You weren’t playing that part
As much as hating the way we made you feel
And you tied your tongue to your teeth
Breathed fire and fuel
Lit mouth and yellow flame
And we wished...
Across from me, an elderly man sits pecking at a telephone that he
doesn’t understand. His shoes are expensive. Beside him sits a small
coat that I can only assume belongs to an absentee spouse. The blue
veins of his forehead show prominently and his face is a constant
frown. Perched on his nose, a small round pair of gold framed glasses.
I imagine him as a much younger man, gentle...
November 2009
3 posts
I’m so angry right now. Angry at the fact that people take advantage of good human beings by default, angry at the audacity, angry at the constant need to get one over on people who want nothing more than to be cared about.
I don’t know how to tell you this, but my heart is sad for those people. Those lonely souls who destroy lives with their lies and wreck havok on innocent hearts....
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the...”
– Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1
October 2009
4 posts
As Matt mentioned in the September Wrap-Up, the Automattic crew is heading to Québec City to work on some top-secret projects. It worked well when we closed the email support system for our London Support meetup, so we’ve decided to do it again.
Support will be unavailable from 10 a.m. EST on Friday, October 9 to 4 a.m. EST on Monday, October 19.
Of course, our team will still be monitoring...
We all love adding great images to our blog posts, and today we’ve enabled a new WordPress.com Shortcode that adds millions of available premium images to the mix, all for free.
The Shortcode is for a service called PicApp, which offers up to the minute sports, news, and celebrity images from some of the top photographers and agencies throughout the world.
Looking for that shot of Eli Manning...
You can now send your WordPress.com posts to your Yahoo! Profile via the Yahoo! Updates service.
Check out that cute WordPress icon!
The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard → My Blogs admin page. Once you enable it, you’ll be directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that you want to connect your WordPress.com blog and your Yahoo! account.
These connections are per blog...
September was a big month for us. We acquired proofreading service After the Deadline, and launched it as a feature on WordPress.com. We implemented RSS Cloud and custom CSS revisions. The Happiness Engineers rolled out two new widgets: the RSS Links widget and the Image Widget, along with other improvements. We also launched a new theme: DePo Square.
Next month the Automattic crew is heading...
September 2009
8 posts
Today we’re bringing you yet another theme designed by Derek Powazek: DePo Square.
This theme looks great! Minimal, simple, yet unique. But, it doesn’t stop with great design. This theme comes with a seriously cool feature: post types.
Map your categories to one of five pre-defined post types — Status, Quote, Link, or Quickie — and your content will be displayed in a format special to those...
Customizing your theme just got easier! The Custom CSS Upgrade now provides the ability to save revisions of your code and uses the same engine that WordPress uses for post revisions.
If you currently have the CSS upgrade, you can see this in action by logging in to your WordPress admin and going to Appearance->Edit CSS. Click the “Save Stylesheet” button. You should now see the Post...
I’m constantly finding sites on WordPress.com that leave me happily surprised. I ran across Wir sprechen Online a few weeks ago and just kept coming back to it. For both the content and the design.
Wir sprechen Online is a P2 powered blog written in both German and English with content ranging from tech tid-bits to personal posts. Aside from the great content, I love how the site has taken...
Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the features and resources you need.
Out of that meetup came a number of improvements and features, like the RSS Links Widget, introduced earlier this month. Another is the Image Widget, launching today.
In the past, it was necessary to use HTML in a text widget to display...
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks and months.
One of the items we worked on is a widget we call RSS Links, which allows you to display text and/or image links to the comment and post feeds of your blog.
No need to mess around with HTML in a...
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all perfect writers or that we just forget to run the spell checker. I’m in the latter camp.
I don’t blame you — spell checkers are usually pretty lame. They are bad with most proper nouns and usually my problem isn’t...
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week. (Around a 18% addition to our on-site views!)
Today we turned...
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.
Our developers have been hard at work, too. In August, we launched the SoundCloud shortcode and WP.me, a URL shortener for WordPress blogs. And at your request, we introduced two new themes: iNove and Sandbox 1.6.1.
Here are...
August 2009
6 posts
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness Engineers are putting our heads together to churn out some big ideas, we’ll be closing our email support system.
Support will be unavailable from 10 a.m. EST on Friday, August 28 to 10 a.m. EST on Monday,...
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.
Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry, they haven’t changed. However, we do urge you to check out 1.6.1.
Sandbox is a skeleton theme for WordPress. Though you can use it by itself, it’s mainly intended for dressing up with a custom Custom CSS...
Check out this address:
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.
WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
Every blog and post on...
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the service to distribute tracks through their blogs and connect with their fans.
We’ve received many requests from WordPress.com bloggers that they would like us to work with SoundCloud to enable this service, and...
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to bring you the cool new stuff you want, so now you’ve got it, too! iNove for WordPress.com:
Some handy features of this theme:
Display pages or categories in the menu below your header.
Display your page...
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.
Later in the month we introduced PollDaddy ratings and polls, the Gravatar widget, and the archives shortcode (one of many you can check out here).
Here are July’s stats:
394,609 blogs were created.
5,666,839 posts were...
July 2009
7 posts
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but we’ve come up with an extra little something that you may care to use.
Enter our newest shortcode – [archives].
This little guy will allow you to...
Special Guest Post: "What do chunky girls do when...
Now, I fucking despise Julia Allison, for more reasons than I can possibly write, but your whole spiel about grains being essential to human life is completely incorrect. Before you go touting your stupidity on matters that actually require a degree in nutrition to fully understand, you should do some research. Not being snarky, just calling you on your bullshit.
trainwrecks:
juliaallison:
...