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The new NYPL logo looks a lot like the Lyon Video logo.
The new NYPL logo looks a lot like the Lyon Video logo.
Concentration is a great & steady state of grace — Ken Isaacs, How To Build Your Own Living Structures
The “prior art” claim of white people wearing locks is shot. White people falsely claiming their ancestors invented the hairstyle don’t do anyone any favors.
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I feel most movies I see don’t take me seriously. It’s like they think I’m 16 or something. Or they don’t realize that I’m sitting in a movie theater and there’s nothing else going on. They don’t need to fight for my attention. They got my attention. They can be comfortable, it’s fine.
This is how an American soldier is made. A fascinating photo essay that details 27 months in the life of new US Army recruit Ian Fisher. It chronicles his recruitment, induction, training, deployment and finally, his return from combat. posted by Effigy2000 (65 comments total) [add to favorites] 34 users marked this as a favorite [!]
Julia Baum took photos of suburban homes in Santa Clara, CA that were all built from the same architectural plan.
I'm pretty sure I grew up in a house just like these. Dig the Dr. Seuss shrubbery.
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45 Homemade Foods You Can Make Yourself (But Never Thought You Could)
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This is where I note that West Virginia is West Virginia, it’s own state in its own right, because they were abolitionist, and dead-set against secession. Virginia is Confederacy - West Virginia is a solid, stout bulwark of the Union, as anti-slavery and pro-industrial as states come.
They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom.
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. - Yahoo! News
Well, he’s unmarried. He still lives with his mother. He’s in therapy, and it doesn’t look like he’ll ever get out of therapy. And he didn’t go into literature.
Do the marches on the streets of Pittsburgh belong in a time capsule of the past (protesters compared the police response to Kent State, though this time no one was shot or died), the present (this is what happens at G-anything conferences these days) or the future (police used a “sonic weapon” to disperse the crowd)? There was a glimpse, too, of crises yet to come, with Obama and other leaders responding to the news that Iran was building what the I.A.E.A. called a “semi-industrial enrichment fuel facility.”
On day two when I got reprimanded for saying “awesome” instead of “pawsome” and “very” instead of “beary” I knew I was in for a long summer.
The best thing I see about the current deep recession is that these damnable masters of the universe are no longer celebrities. I hope it lasts, and we make much of people who create something other than marketing campaigns and buy-out deals.
Seen Through a Glass: Hey, Mister Kiely: which of your kids do you like best? Huh? Which one?
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We’re in a strange moment in American history when a mouse-eating barefoot survivalist in the mountains of Arizona makes more sense than the chief investment strategist of Merrill Lynch. The Atlantic Online | May 2009 | Why I Fired My Broker | Jeffrey Goldberg
Why couldn’t a pop song also contain an enormous, barn-burning guitar solo? Why couldn’t a dance hit verge on Afropop? Why did a creamy ballad about human nature have to sound like humans were singing it? Pop has in no way exhausted all the questions he and Quincy posed. Michael Died Today: Sasha Frere-Jones: Online Only: The New Yorker
This is where everyone I knew first saw the moonwalk, and if you weren’t there or didn’t watch it or maybe weren’t a kid at the time, you cannot imagine what a big deal it was. I was in middle school, and I think we all tried it. You can hear the crowd scream when he does it here — it’s not a scream of recognition, like it would be when he did it later. It’s a scream of shock. NPR: Michael Jackson: The Moment That Made Him The King Of Pop
One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is “Where are you going?” and the answer should be something like “Southsoutheast, in the middle distance.” Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky, my new hero. I’ve long been fascinated by the question, but I had no idea there was a history of debate about this – I was plain shocked to learn that most people thought language does not affect the way we think. It just seems so obvious to me, and I love the research Lera Boroditsky has done to demonstrate the many ways it’s true. See also: NPR: Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong.
It has been a journey with many twists and turns along the way, but Judaism is the language of my soul, and it’s what resonates with me 1st black female rabbi spent years searching - washingtonpost.com
“Though a white gentleman, [Brown] is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery.” – Frederick Douglass. Happy birthday, John Brown. (Thanks, Arthur.)
Tiana is the first Disney princess in more than a decade, and the first ever to be black. … Prince Naveen, for the record, is neither white nor black, but portrayed with olive skin, dark hair and, need we state the obvious, a strong chin. The actor who plays him, Bruno Campos, hails from Brazil. Disney Introduces First Black Princess, Tiana, in ‘The Princess and the Frog’ - washingtonpost.com
I braise the turnips in butter and white wine; I sauté the kale and collards with olive oil and sea salt; I wait until the parsley shrivels and then throw it out. What to do with the kale, turnips, and parsley that overwhelm your CSA bin. - By Catherine Price - Slate Magazine
Women started grabbing me and throwing my whole body backwards into the crowd. I was shocked. All I was trying to do was throw my panties. Loiterer About Town: Tom Jones at the Warfield: Culture/Entertainment: SFAppeal
… there was no choice. I was totally broke. So I didn’t have time to sit around pondering or thinking all this through. It was just done on a basic pure survival level. I did what I had to do. Van Morrison on ‘Astral Weeks’ – you’ve got to hear it from him.
…We were building a brave new world where the Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians provided customer support when these Chinese-made things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky. ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices. Caution: depressing.