September 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
so bad ass →
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
3 posts
Sharon Van Etten featured on XPN’s new video series Shaking Through. Go Sharon!
December 2009
4 posts
Shouts and Murmurs →
A collection of really short stories from this week’s New Yorker. So goddamn funny. If you have five minutes give it a read, it’s worth it.
November 2009
2 posts
DJ Khaled McCafe commercial →
azizisbored:
God damn it. These Khaled McCafe commercials are too good. Just go listen. Please.
(via davidcho)
McDonald’s radio commercials have been laugh-out-loud funny in recent weeks. This one is great.
September 2009
2 posts
And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,...
– T.S. Eliot. From “Little Gidding”.
August 2009
2 posts
Change by itself is anxiety producing, but as we have analyzed the various bills...
– John Rother, AARP’s executive vice president.
Republicans, shut up.
June 2009
12 posts
heres a tonematrix →
This was fun.
(via willschneider)
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes (via Pitchfork)
holy crap this is cool, and by ‘cool’ I also mean trippy as shit.
After four years of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s failed economic policies and ceaseless...
– NYT Editoral, 6.14.09
meatspace
wordjournal:
noun • real life or the physical world, as opposed to cyberspace.
Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less... →
frecklesmakemestrong:
robotindisguise:
Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. All three patients were blind in one eye. The researchers extracted stem cells from their working eyes, cultured them in contact lenses for 10 days, and gave them to the patients....
May 2009
16 posts
i'm lovin' this weekend.
Now I found writing such hard going that it often took me a whole day to compose...
– W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz. (The companion to this). (via mills) (via fuckyeahreading)
Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep,...
– - Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
reading this now and its awesome, obvi. Just loaded up the boat, haven’t met Ahab yet…
On Tumblr:
somethingchanged:
britticisms:
Compared to other generations, we seem to exist in a society of fractured existences. Specifically, our lives are conducted on the pretense of hyper-individuality. We all seem to draw on a number of different things to formulate a personal sense of identity rather than just draw on cultural ideals produced for the masses. The things we find life-altering or...
Of course there are always dark hours, everyone has them, when it seems that one...
– Franz Kafka, The Trial.
Damn it!
willschneider:
stucky:
My tumbularity is 6. I kinda hate this feature now that it is here. One big old popularity contest.
Seriously. Tumblarity: your tumblr experience, quantified and reduced. I think the tumblr people can figure out better ways to encourage activity. C’mon now.
just got fleet foxes tickets!
So pumped.
Historians say Van Gogh's ear was cut by Gauguin →
via guardian.co.uk.
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the...
– –Dwight Schrute, The Office (via paperclash) (via digitalbath) (via iguessthatscool) (via irreguardless) (via kaipaan)
April 2009
25 posts
It's been 100 days in, and I'm still very proud of...