I Run From Bears

The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love by Jens Lekman NEW JENS...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:13:33 -0400

The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love by Jens Lekman

NEW JENS LEKMAN! Who is awesome? Jens is.

healywu: mattbraunger: danforth: Minnesota woman begins a...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:54:59 -0400

mattbraunger:

danforth:

Minnesota woman begins a personal boycott of Target after the chain donated $150,000 to an anti-gay group supporting the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. I support this lady. She made me cry.

YES.

Well that’s two reasons to boycott Target.

This woman is awesome.

Cosigned

GPOYW: Haircut needed or my jewfro will suddenly appear one...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:41:26 -0400

GPOYW: Haircut needed or my jewfro will suddenly appear one morning when I look in the mirror. Anyone good with clippers? Also, Cougar Hunter t-shirt for the win.

"so when are you going to win the lottery so neither of us have to work again in our lives?"

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:08 -0400

“so when are you going to win the lottery so neither of us have to work again in our lives?”

- Amanda

Why do I have to do all the dirty work?!

Anybody live/know about Norristown, PA?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:59:46 -0400

I’m up for a position down that way and am wondering if it is worth the move.

2001 : Skinny Ships / Richard Perez / Graphic...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:58:24 -0400

2001 : Skinny Ships / Richard Perez / Graphic Designer

Typographic poster for Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece. The famous quote is not included in the final version of the film but appears in Arthur C. Clakre’s original book. The em dash that breaks the phrase represents the ever present monolith.

Progress.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:10:00 -0400

Progress.

Tumblr Couch surfing?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:29:10 -0400

I need a vacation. Badly. My sanity is already gone.

Best Picture Ever My Grandpa (left; holding the iPhone 4) and my...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:19:03 -0400

Best Picture Ever

My Grandpa (left; holding the iPhone 4) and my great uncle Albie

They were messing around with the iPhone for hours. Okay, maybe one hour.

"The interrobang is a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point. Many of us use this..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:26:29 -0400

“The interrobang is a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point. Many of us use this punctuation when we type ?!, but a real interrobang is a merger of these two symbols: ?

Punctuation expresses an attitude, an idea, and slant. Often we relegate punctuation to the background, deeming it a mere convention or formality. But with each colon, we make a point: one idea explains a previous one. Cause and effect. Sometimes we signal connections between ideas; punctuation can refine relationships between points. Although words can make an impact, punctuation, clauses, and syntax do a lot of work, too.

Punctuation has a history, and we can learn about our past by learning about the lives of punctuation marks. The interrobang is, I think, the only punctuation mark invented in the twentieth century.”

- The Culture of the Interrobang

"The man at Kacy’s door was smaller than she’d expected. His voice on the phone had been deep and..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:02 -0400

“The man at Kacy’s door was smaller than she’d expected. His voice on the phone had been deep and rich and confident, full of the urgency of business. Now here he was, slightly built and barely up to her nose. Patches of sweat darkened his pink polo shirt under his arms and in a diamond shape over his chest. He thrust out his hand. “Joel Dinaburg,” he said. “That’s Dinaburg, as in dynamo. Father of the bride.””

- Dinaburg’s Cake - The Rumpus.net

A short story from Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. This was voted The Rumpus Book Club’s favorite short story from The Surf Guru collection. Click the link to read the rest.

strangecondition: The Airborne Toxic Event- Gasoline … Such a...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:34:44 -0400

strangecondition:

The Airborne Toxic Event- Gasoline … Such a great summer song.

Indeed

tesslynch: wolf parade — this heart’s on fire Y’all have...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:11:47 -0400

tesslynch:

wolf parade — this heart’s on fire

Y’all have no idea

Another reason why I'm upset with New York State.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:16:14 -0400

mandygranger:

http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_4a7f02fe-975d-11df-80a1-001cc4c03286.html

Really? This is pretty revolting.

NY isn’t the only state doing that though…

"In a work of fiction, one assumes there is a conscious mind behind the words on the page. In the..."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:35:06 -0400

“In a work of fiction, one assumes there is a conscious mind behind the words on the page. In the presence of happenings in the so-called real world, one assumes nothing. The made-up story consists entirely of meanings, whereas the story of fact is devoid of any significance beyond itself. If a man says to you, “I’m going to Jerusalem,” you think to yourself: how nice, he’s going to Jerusalem. But if a character in a novel were to speak those same words, “I’m going to Jerusalem,” your response is not at all the same. You think, to begin with, of Jerusalem itself: its history, it religious role, its function as a mythical place. You would think of the past, of the present (politics; which is also to think of the recent past), and of the future—as in the phrase: “Next year in Jerusalem.” On top of that you would integrate those thoughts into whatever it is you already know about the character who is going to Jerusalem and use this new synthesis to draw further conclusions, refine perceptions, think more cogently about the book as a whole. And then, once the work is finished, the last page read and the book closed, interpretations begin: psychological, historical, sociological, structural, philological, religious, sexual, philosophical, either singly or in various combinations, depending on your bent. Although it is possible to interpret a real life according to any of these systems (people do, after all, go to priests and psychiatrists; people do sometimes try to understand their lives in terms of historical conditions), it does not have the same effect. Something is missing: the grandeur, the grasp of the general, the illusion of metaphysical truth.”

- From The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

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Pops

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:27:40 -0400

Pops

This was taken when I was a baby; before the madness hit.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:25:20 -0400

This was taken when I was a baby; before the madness hit.

My parents were ballers back in the day.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:24:08 -0400

My parents were ballers back in the day.

Currently reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:39:37 -0400

Currently reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Currently watching Greenberg.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:38:00 -0400

Currently watching Greenberg.