18 Aug 10
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Movies featuring depictions of prominent female authors?
my mother needs examples for a class she teaches and i figured i’d ask you all. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
31 Aug 10
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Pretty please with organic cane sugar on top vote for Our Brooklyn Nest in The Selby/CB2 contest!!
(via megallancole)
vote for meg! it only takes a second and she deserves all the cheers.
29 Aug 10
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i seen what i saw (00:03:25.557 duration, 128kbps)
-16 horsepower (off sackcloth ‘n’ ashes. which is as good as hairshirt by rem, if we’re gonna get into songs about repentant/penitent countenance and contrition here)
because most of you listen to utter pablum. whatever if it’s lost on you, i’m losing patience with such foolishness.
29 Aug 10
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old pic, but need to go fishing: rising
disambiguation: tree overhang prevented overhead casting, rollcasting was utilized. link/red meadow lake (alpine, glacial run-off), just outside my hometown back in montana.
29 Aug 10
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tragos: No Biceps (Small or Large) Allowed
Mrs. Tragos and I are now in the midst of setting up our new life in Turkey. Despite our woefully inadequate beginning Turkish, and the complete newness of our surroundings, we now have most of the accoutrements without which life in 2010 cannot thrive. Like hazelnuts, dates, apricots, and wine.
Most surprises in foreign lands are, in retrospect, supremely banal, they are moments that are unexpected only on account of your bemused inexperience.
follow this one. he make me want write good one day.
29 Aug 10
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Mimaya RZ67 Pro II, 110mm Mamiya-Sekor Lens, F2.8 @ 30
My second roll. Slowly improving, but I definitely need work.
this photo of the back of my head was taken 1.3 years ago, i have not cut my hair since and it’s really long now and i have to spend 5-7 minutes each day in the shower brushing out snarls. the ever-industrious and lithely-lovely halley told me to go to ouidad to get my nellie oleson locks cut here in ny (seriously, i have cotdamn shirley temple ringlets and i don’t trust amateurs anywhere NEAR my curls). my sister, who is a full-blaze redhead with identical hair structure, swears by their product line. can anyone confirm or deny their abilities outside of their product?
the tattoo on my forearm is the burlington northern logo, in case you were wondering about that.
24 Aug 10
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Vintage International, 1992 (1st pub. 1985), ch. 17, p. 245, quoted with admirable citational specificity by Ms. Odradek. (via mills)
every time i see this passage (it’s from my favorite novel ever written), i’m always reminded of this other one:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-macbeth, act 5 - scene 5
lest we forget the middleman here …
… the whole thing came to symbolise night and unrest I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray halflight where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves.
-falkner, the sound and the fury (i’m sure there’s been other drunks that have written from it not of it, too)
addendum this:
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
-emo philips, comedian
22 Aug 10
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This is a knife-action bullswitch in the basement of a loft-building in east williamsburg. I got giddy when I saw it and thought of the ruthlessness I could instantly enact.
16 Aug 10
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in the interest of full disclosure:
when i was 12 i saw a plate of this image for the first time. it’s lasting impact on me has been greater than any revelation or drug-revealed truth encountered to date. in some ways this image was my start (huge backstory behind this painting, too. didn’t know it when i saw it but buttresses were built after learning)
find it huge here
16 Aug 10
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photoshop is for hacks and i hate using it, so here is an image that has not been sullied by photoshop. please click on it and view it large, you’ll see why you should stay the fuck away from it.
1/100s f/3.5 ISO320 35mm non-ai manual focus nikkor, handpicked whitebalance d300
16 Aug 10
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when bonnie buys coffee, she buys shit.
image taken 15 minutes ago, i am drinking the ten-year laphroaig on rocks with seltzer 1:1. and yes, i have a pink tablecloth. wanna make something of it?
