June 2012
2 posts
Portraits of an American Music Festival →
May 2012
13 posts
After graduation, when anybody asked if I had...
It’s a recession, people.
whatshouldwecallme:
“Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so...”
– Susan B. Anthony
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via washingtonpoststyle)
Who I Want To Be When I Grow Up
baduck:
March 2012
1 post
What...Just Happened: An Afternoon With The Hunger...
gyzym:
March 10, 2012, 10:35 AM: In the wake of traditional Saturday morning family breakfast, I find myself in a bookstore with my twelve year old brother. Unsurprising: the copy of Dave Egger’s How We Are Hungry clutched in my fist like spoils of war. Surprising: the table full of Hunger Games paraphernalia and paperbacks that said brother is lingering over.
“Haveyou read this?” he asks me....
January 2012
1 post
“There is no such thing as the past. It exists only in the memory. There is no...”
– Damien Echols
December 2011
8 posts
November 2011
13 posts
Infographic: 100 Years of Great Toys →
From the folks at @cabedge.
“When The Beatles were depressed, thinking, the group is going nowhere, and this...”
– John Lennon
Animals Talking In All Caps →
New favorite.
“That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Human beings crave neat endings. It’s as true of life as it is of books...”
– Mary Schmich, “Last Words That Wow,” The Chicago Tribune
October 2011
13 posts
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...”
– e. e. cummings
The Ethereal Weirdo
From Mindy Kaling’s “Flick Chicks,” The New Yorker:
“The smart and funny writer Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe this archetype after seeing Kirsten Dunst in the movie “Elizabethtown.” This girl can’t be pinned down and may or may not show up when you make concrete plans with her. She wears gauzy blouses and braids. She likes to dance in...
NJ Has A Quiet Festival
From @SouthwestAir’s magazine, Spirit:
Ocean City, New Jersey: Quiet Festival
With incessant phone rings, email pings, and text message dings, it’s enough to make a person want to scream, “Shut up already!” Mark Soifer, Ocean City’s public relations director, has founded a rather hush-hush event for those tired of the world’s racket. For nine days (November 10 through 19), the sounds of...
“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision....”
– Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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