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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...”
– Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, David Foster Wallace (via ourcatastrophe)
damned if i didnt just recite “petals on a wet, black bough” completely by accident. jd lopez, heres lookin at you
(via portmontage)
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December 2010
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September 2010
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
July 2010
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June 2010
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pixel-drunk
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the default facial expression of someone on a video chat, whose half-mast gaze at a spot three inches below camera resembles a deranged person leering at your chin, which reinforces your unshakable awareness that the high-resolution plastic rectangle you’re staring at is functionally indistinguishable from an Etch-A-Sketch.
May 2010
5 posts
When this is over, remind me to explain what it was about.
“Ternovskiy had been planning to leave in mid-March, but he accelerated his plans...”
– From a fascinating New Yorker piece on Andrey Ternovskiy, the Russian teenager behind ChatRoulette.
April 2010
9 posts
“He wondered at this phenomenon of tourism: what was it drove them to Thomas Cook...”
– Thomas Pynchon
Robert Scurvham had founded, during the reign of Charles I, a sect of most pure Puritans. Their central hangup had to do with predestination. There were two kinds. Nothing for a Scurvhamite ever happened by accident, Creation was a vast, intricate machine. But one part of it, the Scurvhamite part, ran off the will of God, its prime mover. The rest ran off some opposite Principle, something blind,...
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king, And admirably schooled...
March 2010
10 posts
BREAKING: White person takes the bus
The first time Jacquelyn Carr decided to take a bus in Los Angeles, she felt as if she were navigating a new world. As she arrived at the bus stop at Wilshire Boulevard and Barrington Avenue, the 26-year-old wondered if she was on the right side of the street. She could not help but fixate on what her friends would think if they saw her.
(from a February 27 article in the Los Angeles Times...
Seoul Police Link 1,700 Pairs of Shoes to just 2... →
Maybe this is where my shoes went last summer.
sashosh:
youmightfindyourself:
SEOUL, South Korea — In South Korea, where people often remove their shoes before entering homes, restaurants or funeral parlors, it is a nagging problem: people walking off with others’ shoes, either by mistake or, sometimes, intentionally.
Still, Detective Kim Jeong-gu’s jaw dropped recently when he opened...
