25/4/2012
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
— Carl Sagan (via shobu-obu)
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22/9/2011
ckck:
With Parks & Recreation returning to the airwaves today, I thought I’d share this photo I found a while ago in a book I own. The young boy on the horse is Alfred Hitchcock, sitting in front of his family’s grocery store in Leytonstone, London, circa 1906. The man in the hat is his father, William Hitchcock.
Just look at that full, rich moustache, the sideburns, those disapproving eyes.. There’s no doubt about it: Ron Swanson is Alfred Hitchcock’s father.
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11/9/2011
jetgirl78 ::
Ten Years Later: A Tribute 9/11
My favorite 9/11 tribute in New York City can be found in Bryant Park. 2,819 empty chairs are set up on the lawn facing the site where the World Trade Center once stood, one chair for every life lost. The number of empty chairs captures the enormity of the lives lost and the stark emptiness of it just drives home the point that I hope is never forgotten. 2,819 people were here one moment and gone the next. 2,819 went to work or boarded a plane one morning ten years ago thinking it would be another ordinary day and they never came home.
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31/8/2011
Teddy Roosevelt’s diary the day his wife Alice died from Bright’s disease. He was 25, she 22.
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13:20
“When New York banned smoking in restaurants, I stopped eating out. When they banned it in the workplace I quit working, and when they raised the price of cigarettes to seven dollars a pack, I gathered all my stuff and went to France.”
— David Sedaris (via bbook)
(Source: xombiepants)
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13:18
LOST Valentine’s Day, part two of five.
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13:18
I’m a little confused. Are you telling me that this photo of Bruce Jenner is your resume?
(Source: boner-mifflin)
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13:17
Probably Dick Cavett’s most famous interview is his 1970 conversation with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It’s pretty wonderful and I’ve seen it a bunch of times. However, here’s a clip I’d never seen. It’s after the interview where John & Yoko take questions from the audience.
Here, Mr. Lennon speaks quite deliberately about how he writes - and how and why his style has changed throughout his life. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard Mr. Lennon speak about his writing this way - so concisely eloquent.
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