May 2013
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Platypus
badkidsjokes:
what did the doctor say to the platypus?
sir you are in quite a pickle
This is currently the Tumblr that cheers me up like no other.
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ollymurs:
i dont wanna go to college i wanna go to concerts
Awwww! 1994 - 1999.
(I promise you: if you go to college, you WILL get to go see The Bluetones.)
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April 2013
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A Different Stripe: Renata Adler/Issue Project... →
theawl:
nyrbclassics:
This gentleman was reading Renata Adler’s Speedboat on the Q train to work this morning. You can hear Renata live in the flesh tomorrow at 155 Freeman St., between Manhattan & Franklin Aves in Greenpoint, as part of the Issue Project Room “Littoral” event series, tomorrow at 8 p.m….
This is just like that Tap That Guy blog but better.
Wait, I know this guy? Or...
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ben-ken0bi:
i really just wish it didn’t take someone dying for me to see my family. i really had a good time this weekend with them and wish i could hang with them more often.
Saturday night we danced interpretively to Lords of the New Church and X records imported from Columbus, ate ice cream, and drank beer. We cousins had just sent our Grandma off with a memorial that had left everyone...
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Always Run The Bases (by zan)
“I haven’t been this excited since I met Joan Didion!”
Thanks to Meghan and J for being as excited about this as I was. Someone should play this video at my funeral to show how I lived.
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Life is like a ball of beauty and it makes you wanna just cry
(Then you die)
– - Kurt Vile, “Too Hard”
This lyric pretty much sums up my feelings about his new album. (Which I keep on thinking of as “Christopher Walken on a Pretty Day” but that’s beside the point.) Nothing makes me want the stereo in my car fixed like this album. “Was All...
March 2013
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A List of Books I'm Using For The Mouse Stand At...
Prentice Hall History of Modern Art (Second Edition)
Robert A. Caro’s The Passage of Power
Time Life’s Home Repair and Improvement: Outdoor Structures
Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days (library discard)
Judith Krantz’s Scruples
In appearance at least, Heti’s novel seemed to be the whimsical younger sister...
– The Morning News Tournament of Books
This is the first time I’m realizing that it’s a mirror, not a gaping exploded hole in the book cover, as I’d previously thought. Maybe I read it a little too violently as a result?
GPOY
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Buzz Aldrin
“I need to choose a security question: ‘What is your favorite book? What is the street you grew up on? Who is your favorite beekeeper?’”
“‘Who is your favorite beekeeper?’”
“…”
“That’s a thing?”
“…”
“Can you even name one beekeeper?”
“…”
“Are there famous...
While I served my prison sentence, I frequently dreamed of using the Internet....
– Daily Dot | What it’s like to get online after 25 years in prison
Suddenly my quaint longing for ye olde days of the 90s internet feels very privileged indeed.
Who else is really not liking the picture? In this modern era does empathy -...
– kate’s chaos: facewhack