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Nose kiss by Zeka.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:02:56 -0400

Nose kiss by Zeka.

drewvigal: Chimney shaft after nearly a century of furnace...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:59:45 -0400

drewvigal:

Chimney shaft after nearly a century of furnace heat.

soupsoup: kenyatta: kansassire: The Century of the Self,...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:52:50 -0500

soupsoup:

kenyatta:

kansassire:

The Century of the Self, 2002, Adam Curtis (Tv Mini-Series)

Edward Bernays on the industry he created.

btw, I highly recommend finding the time to watch Adam Curtis’ The Century of the Self.

Well worth checking out.

Photo

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:51:08 -0500

thelittlemissphotographer: California, Laguna Beach

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:17:09 -0500

thelittlemissphotographer:

California, Laguna Beach

Hello gorgeous Zeka. Oh, and this is from Eva’s photo...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:14:41 -0500

Hello gorgeous Zeka. Oh, and this is from Eva’s photo Tumblr.

shakespeareandshoes: we were picked for #26acts at dinner...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:11:25 -0500

shakespeareandshoes:

we were picked for #26acts at dinner tonight! (at Fred’s Restaurant)

wordpainting: The idea that one should only buy what one can...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:09:26 -0500

wordpainting:

The idea that one should only buy what one can read and no more is so silly it makes me fall over just thinking about it.

"‘Do you suppose it’s so much easier to make conversation with someone you already know well than..."

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:08:50 -0500

“‘Do you suppose it’s so much easier to make conversation with someone you already know well than with someone you don’t know at all primarily because of all the previously exchanged information and shared experiences between two people who know each other well, or because maybe it’s only with people we already know well and know know us well that we don’t go through the awkward mental process of subjecting everything we think of saying or bringing up as a topic of light conversation to a self-conscious critical analysis and evaluation that manages to make anything we think of proposing to say to the other person seem dull or stupid or banal or on the other hand maybe overly intimate or tension-producing?’”

- David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (via nequiquam)

A 90-year-old man started a blog this week, one month after his wife passed away. Go check it out; it's wonderful.

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:08:06 -0500

A 90-year-old man started a blog this week, one month after his wife passed away. Go check it out; it's wonderful.

thelittlemissphotographer: Seen In Madison Square Park

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:06:35 -0500

thelittlemissphotographer:

Seen In Madison Square Park

"For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic..."

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:49:55 -0500

““For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.””

- Vladimir Nabokov; On a Book Entitled Lolita (via wordpainting)

A visual history of Richard Nixon getting lazier

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:44:09 -0500

A visual history of Richard Nixon getting lazier

thisoldbook: This 1970s paperback has been kicking around my...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:37:02 -0500

thisoldbook:

This 1970s paperback has been kicking around my collection since high school. I probably bought it after viewing “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” one of the first movies I was allowed to see in a theater without adult accompaniment.

Needless to say, Malory is not really as entertaining. I’m with Dennis the Constitutional Peasant: “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”

This edition has a useful glossary. For example, the questing beast “has the head of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the buttocks of a lion, and the feet of a hart. From its belly issues the sound of thirty pairs of yapping hounds. It is never brought to earth.”

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thisoldbook: I fondly remember the National Public Radio’s of...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:14:04 -0400

thisoldbook:

I fondly remember the National Public Radio’s of the 1980s, especially “All Things Considered,” because it kept me awake on so many long automobile trips in the wilds of Maryland, Pennsylvania and upstate New York. I must have bought this book after hearing a commentary on the show from Ian Shoales, a member of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater. I’m not entirely sure that it was clear to me at first that he was the fictional creation of Merle Kessler. After a blast of cynical commentary, his trademark sign-off was “I gotta go.” In later years, Kessler has written articles, performed on KQED radio, local theater on the West Coast, kept a blog, and even done some recent podcasting. I can’t say that this Reagan-Cold War-era book has aged all that well. So much in our culture, world and society was about to change. A lot of the references seem stale or frozen in time. What might have seemed edgy then has been rendered mild in this age of “The Daily Show,” Sean Hannity and The Onion. It is a window on a forgotten era.

The corporate man: Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, Howard Hughes, Lee Iacocca, Blake Carrington, Donald Trump, the iron god of Ayn Rand, the distinguished air, the silver hair. He’s the man in search of excellence. He’s the man who takes his pleasure where he finds it. He’s got 200 blue suits, he’s the man with the cellular phone…

…The strong hand quivers, but the Swiss watch ticks on. The stride may falter, but the Italian shoes will last forever. The deposed king lives out the post-corporate blues: adviser to Presidents, a brainstorm in a think tank, the financial expert on the evening news, the well-placed source. He’s a double-dipping golden parachute, hefting his irons on the links.

And finally the burst vessel. The terse paragraph in The Times. Ashes in a silver urn. There are the remains: the dust of a lonely man, who gave his life for power, then power passed him by. I gotta go.

joshsternberg: Yesterday, I posted some pictures of newspapers...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:34:26 -0400

joshsternberg:

Yesterday, I posted some pictures of newspapers from World War II. Today are pictures of newspapers from the JFK assassination, starting with a late edition New York Post from that Friday.

izmia: Idea of the Day: Birds On Twitter - Günün Fikri: Kuşlar...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:51:09 -0400

izmia:

Idea of the Day: Birds On Twitter - Günün Fikri: Kuşlar Twitter da.

Everyone has the right to be heard - that is the main principle of Ir, weekly magazine from Latvia. That´s why we have fixed the biggest internet injustice of all times and gave Twitter back to original twitterers, the birds!

Commonplace Pages: The Next Chapter

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:08:28 -0400

Commonplace Pages: The Next Chapter:

drewvigal:

As announced last week, I’m joining the interactive studio Second Story in Portland, Oregon, resigning as multimedia editor of The New York Times. I appreciate the kind notes from friends and colleagues.

The decision to leave The Times doesn’t come easy. I’ve been in journalism for 22 years,…

llacigart: “Lost: wormhole!” ~via @nowever

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:58:54 -0400

llacigart:

“Lost: wormhole!”

~via @nowever

laughingsquid: Piggy the Cat Walking Down the Side of a...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:26:19 -0400

laughingsquid:

Piggy the Cat Walking Down the Side of a Refrigerator Head First