“You could always industrialize,” she refilled Jimmy’s wine glass. “You know, get a job stunning chickens in a factory to earn the trust of the working class.” Jimmy laughed again and accidentally spat Chablis on my legs. “It’s a pretty… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Britta wanted to try to turn a guard. Tamara thought it was idiotic. “What are you going to do? Buy him beer and tell him about Kropotkin?” I envisioned the conversation: Vanguard: Wage Slave, are you aware that you are but a wire nail in the toolbox of capitalism? Wage Slave: I thought I was a chisel. Vanguard: No, the… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share
I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree. — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Oh, you must be part of the underground no one’s ever heard about.” “I don’t belong to any group outside of my friends.” “That’s… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't. — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
