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The Velveteen Rabbit (via the snail and the cyclops)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:48:50 -0700

The Velveteen Rabbit (via the snail and the cyclops)

kindacarsick: Wataru Ito, an origami artist from Japan, has...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:09:55 -0700

Wataru Ito, an origami artist from Japan, has spent four years making this miniature city entirely out of paper. Now that he’s finished, he’s going to burn it down. Article and more photos here.

“‘Let’s talk of many things’ - E...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:31:00 -0700

“‘Let’s talk of many things’ - E BarringtonThomas FW Cheshire, 1966, this reprint 1968. Designer and de-facer unknown.” (via letslookupandsmile)

"In the late 1940’s, W.H. Auden became enamored of the idea that every writer’s mind is a household..."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:00:19 -0700

“In the late 1940’s, W.H. Auden became enamored of the idea that every writer’s mind is a household containing three personalities. T.S. Eliot’s, he wrote, included an archdeacon, an old peasant grandmother and a young boy who liked to play practical jokes.”

- Adam Kirsch (via lukescommonplacebook) (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)

"…and I was left alone with the bad taste of nothing, lulled by the train cars that galloped..."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:44:00 -0700

“…and I was left alone with the bad taste of nothing, lulled by the train cars that galloped past the sewer pipes, beaches, and boats of the Tagus, lulled by the river’s waves while my hands, as if praying, held the absence of your hips.”

- The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes, the end of one of the breathless-long sentences that I particularly liked

nuns (via superbomba)

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:38:57 -0700

nuns (via superbomba)

benjaminhilts: feltron: http://seedmagazine.com/interactive/wor...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:57:11 -0700

benjaminhilts:

feltron:

http://seedmagazine.com/interactive/workbench/oliver_sacks/

woodswoodswoods:

For frequent Radiolab listeners/Oliver Sacks fans: Sacks’ workbench, complete with commentary. I want to meet this man.

Oliver Sacks is one of my heroes. I’ve been reading him since I was fourteen and remain awed and delighted and moved by his work—which isn’t something I can say for 95% of the other authors I was reading at the time. He’s genius.

fierce polar bear (via superbomba)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:17:30 -0700

fierce polar bear (via superbomba)

"I am still obsessed with creating false worlds, and will be until I die. Today I don’t line up spools of thread and chess pawns (with an occasional bishop or pawn sticking out) in the drawers of my chest, but I regret I don’t ."

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:40:12 -0700

misstugui:

lapetitebaobab:

— from ‘The Book of Disquiet’ by Bernardo Soares aka Fernando Pessoa

Old woman with a chicken in her lap: I believe that people one day hopefully will understand as I do, all children and adults, how wonderful a little chicken can be. All chickens! That they're just not a little chicken in the barnyard to eat. No, that they have a special personality. May you all have the same joy that I have had, knowing a chicken. Mwah! kisses chicken My little soul-mate...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:29:30 -0700

Old woman with a chicken in her lap: I believe that people one day hopefully will understand as I do, all children and adults, how wonderful a little chicken can be. All chickens! That they're just not a little chicken in the barnyard to eat. No, that they have a special personality. May you all have the same joy that I have had, knowing a chicken. Mwah! *kisses chicken* My little soul-mate...

--The Natural History of the Chicken (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxO91TLKVg)

(via adski_kafeteri)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:09:35 -0700

(via adski_kafeteri)

Untitled Document (virtual bookshelf?)

Fri, 15 May 2009 18:33:00 -0700

Untitled Document (virtual bookshelf?):

Click a spine. Be rewarded with a random plate from an old book. Still not as satisfying as browsing a real bookshelf* but reminds me of why I love the internet.

*we lost two customers this week to kindle & I am feeling very defensive of real life physical books.

benjaminhilts: lesliefeist: “You and I” - Wilco &...

Fri, 15 May 2009 17:42:54 -0700

benjaminhilts:

lesliefeist:

“You and I” - Wilco & Feist

This is some sort of heaven.

nookphotos: Source: unknown.

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:06:20 -0700

nookphotos:

Source: unknown.

Grilled Cheese Gets An Update : NPR

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:38:47 -0700

Grilled Cheese Gets An Update : NPR:

Remembering that I once went half a year eating grilled cheese sandwiches almost exclusively, my mom sent this to me. Includes a “recipe” (who needs a recipe for a grilled cheese, anyway?!) for a jarlsberg & apple grilled cheese that looks delicious. Though I could happily live off of cheddar and tomatoes grilled on wheat with maybe some carmelized onions—now that is the quintessential grilled cheese.

(via grammarfight)

Mon, 11 May 2009 12:50:16 -0700

(via grammarfight)

prayer; or, the only reason I ever google spiders

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:35:45 -0700

Please please please, oh great internet, assure me that the huntsman spider is not ever and will never be found in colorado.

misstugui: o François Truffaut en “Le Sang d’un poète”, de...

Sat, 09 May 2009 22:22:28 -0700

misstugui:

o François Truffaut en “Le Sang d’un poète”, de Cocteau

"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it..."

Sat, 09 May 2009 22:00:29 -0700

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.”

- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

benjaminhilts: tumbledore: Pink Floyd - “Fearless” bh: off of...

Sat, 09 May 2009 17:32:25 -0700

benjaminhilts:

tumbledore:

Pink Floyd - “Fearless”

bh: off of Meddle, one of my favorite albums of theirs

I got into an argument today at my bookstore job with a customer who claimed that the seventies had basically no good music—& Pink Floyd was one of the cornerstones of my defense. It actually got almost heated and my boss interceded with an armful of books and a stern look that said put these away and shut up. Then ten minutes later we started talking about Tom Waits and everything was dandy…but still.