People Like It When You Tell Them Things

"These seven people had no meaning beyond themselves, which was to say that they had no meaning at..."

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:31:30 -0400

““These seven people had no meaning beyond themselves, which was to say that they had no meaning at all. They did not express the life of the nation. They had no visible work. They were all drones and winter would find them dead.””

- William Maxwell, Bright Center of Heaven

nomadicrevery: Boss. So baller!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:13:21 -0400

nomadicrevery:

Boss.

So baller!

lovelybookcovers: This Way For the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen by...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:53:26 -0400

lovelybookcovers:

This Way For the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

Double rainbow!

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:12:19 -0400

Double rainbow!

Oops: Butter Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:28:01 -0400

Oops: Butter

Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

‘Scuse me, while I kiss the sky (and then, less...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:46:00 -0400

‘Scuse me, while I kiss the sky (and then, less vertiginous ground). Also: oxygen! Who knew? So essential for the thing we call breathing. First 14’er: IN THA BAG.

Dear Dave Eggers Lovers:

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:19:18 -0400

Read Nurrudin Farah instead. [Mean insult about Eggers’ ‘African novel’ redacted]

Yours,

"I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world that it is..."

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:48:41 -0400

“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world that it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”

- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Geoff Dyer (via inanetitter)

Death & War & Remembrance & Godlessness

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:45:00 -0400

Perhaps that is what is meant by ‘lonelyness’ — knowing that even at your moments of most exalted emotion, you do not matter (perhaps this is precisely the moment of most exalted emotion) because these things will always be here: the dark trees full of summer leaf, the fading light that has not changed in seventy-five years, the peace that lies perpetually in wait.

Geoff Dyer, from The Missing of the Somme

2014-2018 will be the centenary of World War I. In this book, he talks about the force of Remembrance - as it emerged as a social goal, as it shaped the perception of the war which razed the Western Front “over a carpet of bodies”, as it shaped the war itself, and the thin peace that fell right after.

I watched that horrifying video yesterday of the man shot point-blank by the Pakistani Rangers who, while pleading for his life and for help, flails, twitches, supplicates and bleeds out in the street while they mill around him. Not on the scale of 60,000 dead in a single day, and yet still a uniform, a weapon, years of assured justification of class make us still willing to render a life inconsequential in a half-second of thought. Only time and the permanence of surroundings seem to make it bearable.

Video

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:22:34 -0400

nomadicrevery: Done!

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:38:20 -0400

nomadicrevery:

Done!

A tiding of magpies, an aurora of polar bears

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:09:53 -0400

http://www.woopstudios.com/

These prints are. AWESOME.

Parasites in Cod

Thu, 12 May 2011 09:51:26 -0400

Parasites in Cod:

Very interesting and yet so very, very, cringe-inducing.

Confession Time

Mon, 09 May 2011 12:01:10 -0400

I’m inexplicably grossed out by cupcakes that have little pies and other ‘independent deserts’ baked inside of them.

fromroom218: from front to back: Cocktails 1/ blueberry sage...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:06:11 -0400

fromroom218:

from front to back:

Cocktails

1/ blueberry sage mojito

muddled blueberries
sage
simple syrup
vanilla rum (or blueberry vodka)

2/ raspberry mojito

muddled raspberries
mint
simple syrup
dragonberry bacardi rum

3/ cilantro lime mojito

muddled lime
cilantro
coconut milk
shaved coconut garnish
simple syrup
vanilla or lime rum

4/pineapple blackberry basil mojito

muddled blackberry
pineapple
basil
simple syrup
dragonberry bacardi rum

Chick-lit sucks, news at 11.

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:21:51 -0400

Chick-lit sucks, news at 11.:

This is me cheering on Jennifer Egan. Derivative and banal INDEED. Suck it, Sophie Kinsella and everyone who thinks those made-for-Borders-endcap material of shopping and lovelorn lady porn constitute worthwhile reading.

What. It’s Friday and I like dubstep. We listened to...

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:10:00 -0400

What. It’s Friday and I like dubstep. We listened to this on Wednesday, which had all the makings of a zombie movie: Wee-hours-of-the-morning mandatory evacuation phone call, small mountain town, midnight train leaking “unspecified chemicals” and a potential “toxic vapor cloud”. Cue this up, put on your dirtiest wifebeater & start sharpening your machete.

Toothless At Last John S Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash,...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:33:17 -0400

Toothless At Last

John S Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Silk buttons, Laos

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:12:45 -0400

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION:

Silk buttons, Laos

John S Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:34:37 -0400

John S Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic