January 2012
14 posts
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via nypl)
“[In] a world of increasing blandness and conformity, there are still, out there...”
– Amazing New Yorker thoughts on Rick Perry.
Internet Gods At Work: Drunk Ron Swanson →
December 2011
12 posts
“Wait — poor black kids should learn how to read? Get the eff out of here! Where...”
– Elon James White at The Root responds to the Forbes “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” essay. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“I thought, on the train, how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of...”
– Wallace Stevens, in a 1904 note. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“The turtle, meanwhile, is uniquely ill-equipped for a daring escape. Though...”
– Eastern Box Turtle Escapes from the Inwood Nature Center and no one cares!
(Not Possible in) Two Days in Seattle
A friend asked for my recommendation for two days in Seattle. I spent a summer there interning at Experience Music Project as a grad student. My friend Heather was with me; she interned at Wing Luke Asian Museum. Our combined list of what to try to do is sort of so amazing that I want to share it here!
First, my email:
Rosie, your “two days in Seattle” challenge has got my...
November 2011
10 posts
Library Science, a new exhibit about the changing... →
thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay... →
October 2011
21 posts
I Spy Art app →
“The point being: if you miss a few home payments, you have a very high...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
WatchWatch a Skeleton Fall in Love in Spike Jonze’s Stop-Motion Short Film
Macbeth, Dracula, and Moby Dick collide as their felt book covers come to life in Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die by Your Side). Make sure you view through the end credits on this one.
Warning: Some pretty serious skeleton humping and pumping. Happy Halloween!
A Wine Country A Year
Marvelous Gchat idea: A wine country a year with dear friend Andrea as we embark on our 30s. San Francisco, Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Italy, France, Germany…
“Is ‘sick passenger’ really a code for suicide attempt?
No, sick passenger is...”
– Reddit asks a real live train conductor. So it’s like that Hairpin series only informational and scary all at once. (via flavorpill)
USEFUL!
“The man’s hypocrisy belongs in the Smithsonian.”
– columnist Eugene Robinson, in his love letter to Occupy Wall Street, on Tea Party supporter Rep. Eric Cantor’s denouncement of the movement. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“That, in the end, is perhaps why Scott’s really out to kill anthropology...”
– Save the fucking humanities already! (Source: Mother Jones article in response to FL Governor Rick Scott’s proposal to defund humanities in favor of “job creating professions” in math and sciences)
"The Navajo Hipster Panty" and other crimes... →
In “honor” of Columbus Day
So Much Beyonce (seriously, click through) →
