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"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:34:11 -0700

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

- John Keats (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:34:49 -0700

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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:34:52 -0800

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rnnbrwn: Lovely cartographical illustration by Anna...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:04:42 -0800

rnnbrwn:

Lovely cartographical illustration by Anna Butler.

It’s available for purchase on Wellingtons Travel at a couple of different prices (depending on what size you’d like).

uglyrenaissancebabies: Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St....

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:00:12 -0800

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony

YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID, MY HEAD IS A BARN. Also, there is definitely a guy taking a shit on the right side of the painting. That’s fun.

tsarevitchalexei: Railroad Commissioners’ Map of Texas (1897)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:53:24 -0800

tsarevitchalexei:

Railroad Commissioners’ Map of Texas (1897)

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:51:34 -0800

kevinpdevine: I went out to Staten Island today for the first...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:00:50 -0700

kevinpdevine:

I went out to Staten Island today for the first time to see my mom & my family, go help an old & close friend whose house was severely damaged - it was harrowing, alarming. The South Shore, which was where I grew up after we moved from Brooklyn when I was in 6th grade, where I played in my first punk rock bands, where I met my first girlfriend, is pretty annihilated.

My friend’s house & neighborhood look like … comparisons fail. Dilapidated horror-movie shack setpieces, war-torn regions of the third world. Really eye-opening, even after days of media saturation. Saw the FEMA HQ set up by the destroyed boardwalk, the clusters of dead boats knotted up unnaturally on land, the miles-long gas lines (at the few places where gas was even available), the entirely-uprooted trees, the devastated beach front, the power out almost everywhere. A long way from anything resembling or approaching “normal.” Sobering.

Please look at this site & see if you can contribute, some time, some money, something, and please spread the word about the help required in the Forgotten Borough. Thank you all.

A New Yorker's Hurricane Experience, as Told Through Gifs

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:22:28 -0700

jezebelcom:

Everyone totally overreacted to Hurricane Irene last year, which ended up just being a really rainy evening. So when people started freaking out about Hurricane Sandy and essentially preparing for the apocalypse I was like:

But several days later, in Sandy’s aftermath I’m like:

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lena4life: Winter…is coming.

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:28:16 -0700

lena4life:

Winter…is coming.

barackobama: And that means the first presidential debate is...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:43:07 -0700

barackobama:

And that means the first presidential debate is tonight at 9pm ET. We’ll be watching at barackobama.com/debate, featuring a livestream, a live blog, and a few other live things, probably. See you there.

I FREAKING LOVE THIS.

One night, I was on stage, and there was this beautiful little...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:51:40 -0700

One night, I was on stage, and there was this beautiful little girl — she was probably 8 years old at the time. And she had this beautiful red hair, this beautiful skin, these beautiful green eyes, and she was looking up at me, holding, you know, for an autograph. I said, ‘Well, you’re the prettiest little thing I ever saw. So what is your name?’ And she said, ‘Jolene.’ And I said, ‘Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. Jolene.’ I said, ‘That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I’m going to write a song about that.’