January 2010
212 posts
“Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of...”
– RISD President John Maeda
(via spacecollective)
mercybell:
“I and Love and You” The Avett...
“Commence cocoon.”
– Charlie, making plans for our weekend. It’s 12 degrees with a wind chill of -7 degrees and I couldn’t agree with her more. Cocooning it all weekend.
candlelight memories
We just had a 20-minute blackout and it got me thinking of my favorite blackout memories.
1. I was in my last year of college and I had been doing a lot of house-sitting for my co-workers and their friends. Living in a big house with no roommates and a few pets was great, and the money wasn’t bad either. I had driven up to a house in the hills - across the street from the golf course, if I...
George Plimpton Google Maps Essay →
(via durgapolashi)
The Google Maps Essay is my new favorite writing format. Go read this.
andrewbravener:
So I found the high quality,...
“When that chute opens you feel like you’ve done something kings and queens can’t...”
– — Gary Busey, on skydiving (via kevin)
Who knew Gary Busey could say something so poetic?
THERE WAS A LADY GAGA CLUE ON THE JEOPARDY TEST.
natface:
end transmission
Also, what the hell was that question about the DC area code? Not exactly what I was expecting.
The Sixty One →
newsweek:mikehudack:
Absolutely beautiful music discovery engine. Hat tip to Rafi Mama.
Nwk loves, loves, loves this. Very cool
This is great. Nice to just roll the dice and let the internet find you some great music.
savingpaper:
Come Pick Me Up — Ryan Adams (with...
Obama Summoned for Jury Duty in Chicago →
savingpaper:
Turns out he has a pretty good excuse to get out of it, though.
“While it may not always be great marketing, artists should be free to explore...”
– Alec Soth (via louobedlam) (via totes)
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“The artist is intuitively a neuroscientist.”
– Gary Vikan, in a WSJ article, “How Art Affects the Brain” (via austinkleon)
“Old cities forget that they were once-trees. In those cities they love old...”
– Seattle, Her Faults & Her Virtues (ca. 1925), qtd. in The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History (via lukescommonplacebook)
I miss the Northwest and living among the trees.
trishutchinson:
Ray Lamontagne, Jolene
A...
LBJ Orders Some Slacks (Audio) →
herenotthere:
Who knew the prez could describe pants so eloquently. Choice phrases - “down where your nuts hang,” “bunghole,” “it’s like riding a barbed wire fence.”
I burst out laughing at the belch. Also, was this before the word khaki existed?
bend your mind a little
durgapolashi:
wouldn’t it be nice if when you dropped your wine glass out of shock, it wasn’t a wine glass at all, but a ball of yarn, rolling across the floor, tracing a fine, uninterrupted, quiet line?
I love this and I can only imagine the slow smile I would get if this happened.
Now I can’t stop picturing others: What if when the cat knocked a pen off my desk, it took flight,...
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