June 2012
0 posts
May 2012
3 posts
April 2012
14 posts
Jellyfish Airplants by Petit Beast →
1 tag
“If you do not send them to me, to round out my little edition of Stevenson, I...”
– Royal Cortissoz, Times art critic in the 1910s and ’20s, to Ray Safford, Scribner’s retail chief during the period
March 2012
12 posts
Respected Paternal Relative →
RLS asks his dad for money.
“May his shaft continue to pleasure us for many years to come.”
– Tish and Pish, book description
“You want to hire lazy people. They’ll get the job done quick and easy.”
– Head asshat
“You can’t hire all chiefs and no Indians. You want Indians who can become...”
– Head asshat
February 2012
16 posts
Hobson’s Choice » Morton’s Fork » Buridan’s Ass
Diagram Prize shortlist
A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel: Volume Two
Cooking with Poo
Estonian Sock Patterns All Around the World
The Great Singapore Penis Panic: And the Future of American Mass Hysteria
Mr Andoh’s Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge
A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
The Mushroom in Christian Art
more details here. assume nerdpita already has...
wtf greece.
just absurd, via Economist Meg:
A friend and I met up at a new bookstore and café in the centre of town, which has only been open for a month. The establishment is in the center of an area filled with bars, and the owner decided the neighborhood could use a place for people to convene and talk without having to drink alcohol and listen to loud music. After we sat down, we asked the waitress for...
Join me - the gray matter is warm.
Now we’re cooking with evil gas.
The normal matrix is, obviously, the uterus.
Thoughts on Downton Abbey, four eps in:
Daisy’s a fucking spaz
Mrs. Patmore is going blind?
Thomas is an Interpol-looking asshole
Why is William’s face so big
Gwen is adorable!
O’Brien and her hair can shove it
The Lady Dowager has an amazing bosom and bustle
Lord Grantham reminds me of Colin Firth (I think - may refine this later on)
Katie Holmes has obv modeled her...
January 2012
10 posts
“There is no way I can dislike Alan whatshisname with the voice like a cello.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, in an interview at the end of The Wild Girls, obviously in re: Alan Rickman
from now on, i will express my displeasure by... →