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nevver: Before and after

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:17:53 -0500

nevver:

Before and after

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Tue, 21 May 2013 15:44:21 -0500

fastcompany: Each glowing etch on this map represents the path...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:43:12 -0500

fastcompany:

Each glowing etch on this map represents the path of a tornado tracked in the last 56 years by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

More striking images of tornado alley

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:29:24 -0500

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

"Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between..."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:17:05 -0500

“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see no reason that a white rabbit shouldn’t possess a pocket watch, that whales shouldn’t talk, or that sentient beings shouldn’t live on other planets and travel in spaceships. Science-fiction tropes aren’t read as ‘science fiction’; they’re read as fiction. And fiction is read as reality. And sometimes reality lives under the bed and has very large teeth, and it’s no use pretending otherwise.”

- Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, 2012 (via electronicsquid)

Love this.

(via allthingslibrary)

digg: Today’s Google doodle celebrates what would have been...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:13:55 -0500

digg:

Today’s Google doodle celebrates what would have been Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday.

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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:12:56 -0500

Fast Company: Here are 10 tips for making the most of your days off:1. Do make a...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:36:07 -0600

Fast Company: Here are 10 tips for making the most of your days off:1. Do make a...:

fastcompany:

Here are 10 tips for making the most of your days off:

1. Do make a plan. We’re all busy. When we hit the weekend, we think we want to do “nothing.” But it’s impossible to truly do nothing. Instead, you’ll do unconsciously chosen somethings, and you’ll hit Sunday wondering where the time…

northwangerabbey: mimaveil: Rob James-Collier for Out...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:35:00 -0600

northwangerabbey:

mimaveil:

Rob James-Collier for Out Magazine (x)

SCARF IS THE ANTHEM

that last pic is Pinstripe Sex Panther coming out to play

sexy can i

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:31:59 -0600

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:31:19 -0600

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:31:28 -0600

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

- Neil Gaiman (via bookporn)

"The art department and the props department do a fantastic job. … Everything we use is genuine — the..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:06:22 -0600

“The art department and the props department do a fantastic job. … Everything we use is genuine — the food is genuine. The menu is printed out in French, on the table in front of people for a formal dinner. And that’s what they eat: mousseline of whatever-it-is.”

- Jim Carter, who plays Carson the butler on ‘Downton Abbey.’ Hear the whole interview — with Carter and his other cast mates — on NPR’s Morning Edition. ‘Downton Abbey’ Cast: It’s More Fun Downstairs (via npr)

"I know it’s not the most feminist idea to be a woman in a tower wanting to be rescued, but for a..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:05:24 -0600

““I know it’s not the most feminist idea to be a woman in a tower wanting to be rescued, but for a woman of color in this country, we’ve never been afforded that fairy tale because of how the black family was ripped apart [during slavery],” Washington said. “I really saw the value of having a story that empowers the African American man to do something chivalrous for the African American woman, because that hasn’t been an idea that has held women back in the culture — it’s something we’ve never been allowed to dream about.””

- ‘Django Unchained’ was more than a role for Kerry Washington - latimes.com (via npr)

joehillsthrills: Climb in - let’s go for a ride. Cover for the...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:57:41 -0600

joehillsthrills:

Climb in - let’s go for a ride.

Cover for the NOS4A2 limited, by Gabriel Rodriguez… and just a taste of the full color artwork he’ll be adding to the Subterranean Press edition. I’m told they’re down to less than 100 copies (and the Lettered edition is gone), so if you want one and it isn’t out of the price range, now’s the time to make your move.

catasters: Super Cat Bros.

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:57:02 -0600

catasters:

Super Cat Bros.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:24:38 -0600

"hollywood has given us two, equally false, notions of marriage. either it’s the joining of two..."

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:05:05 -0600

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hollywood has given us two, equally false, notions of marriage. either it’s the joining of two gorgeous young people “destined” to be together, or as a wheezing and cold institution inhabited by miserable and middle-aged wheezebags, usually meant to illustrate a counterpoint to the love the gorgeous young couple in the film will share once their destinies are realized, and they are able to finally be together against all odds. yawn. boring. wrong. …

it’s doing laundry. it’s paying bills. cleaning the kitty litter. marriage is a hundred thousand tiny tasks you share. it is peeling vegetables and changing lightbulbs and giving each other quick kisses and wishing for each other “a nice day.” it is coming home and smelling dinner cooking, and running out on a cold winter night for antacid because she has a headache and cannot sleep. sometimes marriage is being pissed off at each other for weeks at a time. and sometimes it’s walking into your children’s bedrooms and watching them sleep.

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- michael ian black (via emilyinternet)

(I love everything about this quotation, but I am concerned that an antacid will not effectively treat Michael Ian Black’s wife’s headache. And then he is going to come home and be like, “I ventured out into the frigid night to get you this Pepcid AC,” and she will be like, “I have a headache, not heartburn,” and then he will have to go back to CVS and there will be a bit of mutual resentment even though everyone is trying to do right by everyone else. This is also marriage.)

fishingboatproceeds: duttonbooks: Just another reason why we...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:28:44 -0600

fishingboatproceeds:

duttonbooks:

Just another reason why we love Jon Stewart.

And per hour of entertainment, books are the cheapest thing going. Except Angry Birds. Angry Birds is cheaper, but then once you’ve unlocked all the achievements, you feel things yawning canyon open inside of yourself that does not feel anything like achievement.

rizzoliandislestnt: Happy Holidays! We have a present for our...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:10:10 -0600

rizzoliandislestnt:

Happy Holidays! We have a present for our fans! Who’s excited for 5 brand-new episodes?