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How to freeze strawberries I’m going to have to try the...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:44:46 -0700

I’m going to have to try the “Poor Man’s Vacuum Pack.”

“Being an International Superstar and The World’s...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:46:00 -0700

“Being an International Superstar and The World’s Most Photographed Squirrel, Sugar Bush loves to dress up, and has over 3,000 outfits with matching hats and accessories. Sugar Bush Squirrel has her own, posh studio with an elaborate stage and thousands of stage props, and has posed for over 5,000 photos since her modeling career began.” (via Sugar Bush Squirrel - International Superstar - Supermodel & Military Hero)

(Note: In this photo, Sugar Bush is taking on the persona Nutstradamus.)

"Several weeks after the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’ and amid a torrent of..."

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:52:00 -0700

“Several weeks after the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’ and amid a torrent of criticism, Darwin added a mischievous postscript to a letter to his friend, the geologist Charles Lyell: ‘Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.’ The Ediacaran fossils tell us that Darwin was being too generous. Our earliest animal ancestor probably had no head, tail, or sexual organs, and lay immobile on the sea floor like a door mat.”

- Remarkable Creatures - Translating the Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone - NYTimes.com

via 5btv & nevver Clippings from the May 1980 issue of...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:56:31 -0700

via 5btv & nevver

Clippings from the May 1980 issue of New York Rocker

Alan Betrock published the first issue of New York Rocker in the spring of 1976. Andy Schwartz moved to NYC in Fall 1977 and bought the magazine from Betrock. Schwartz published and edited New York Rocker, along with Byron Coley, Michael Hill, Ira Kaplan, Annene Kaye, David Keeps, Laura Levine, Glenn Morrow, Chris Nelson, Suzette Rodriguez, Roy Trakin, Elizabeth Van Itallie, Janet Waegel, and Drew Wheeler, at 166 Fifth Avenue until the magazine folded in 1982.

Some time after the magazine folded and was sold, the rights reverted back to Schwartz, who now operates nyrocker.com.

theleagueofmoveabletype: for moustache lovers… who also love...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0700

theleagueofmoveabletype:

for moustache lovers… who also love type.

via wit + delight

A new episode of Sassy Gay Friend, in which he advises the...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:55:58 -0700

A new episode of Sassy Gay Friend, in which he advises the Giving Tree.

Big Star: “The India Song” (1972). Andy Hummel only...

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:02:00 -0700

Big Star: “The India Song” (1972).

Andy Hummel only wrote a couple of songs for Big Star, but this and his “Way Out West” are among my favorites by the band. (Though really, about 80% of Big Star songs are my favorite Big Star songs.) RIP, Andy.

Picking blueberries.

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:52:42 -0700

Picking blueberries.

Note to self: Do not take child to German zoo. (Via...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:38:00 -0700

Note to self: Do not take child to German zoo.

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"It is an age-old riddle that has perplexed generations: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?..."

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:49:00 -0700

“It is an age-old riddle that has perplexed generations: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: The chicken.”

- Scientists reportedly crack chicken-or-egg riddle - Technology & science - Science - msnbc.com
It’s interesting that this study actually focused on chickens, as I always thought “chicken” in this phrase was a stand-in for any egg-born creature … ostriches, starlings, crocodiles, dinosaurs, etc. But now it’s clear: a chicken rode in on a meteorite.

I just want to keep looking at this. via:...

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:53:11 -0700

I just want to keep looking at this.

via: sympathyfortheartgallery:

datdatdat:

James Hopkins - BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

fuckyeahkidsinthehall: King of Empty Promises “Will do” (via...

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:30:01 -0700

fuckyeahkidsinthehall:

King of Empty Promises

“Will do”

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From TurtlesEatingThings.com, which is exactly what you’d...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:47:00 -0700

From TurtlesEatingThings.com, which is exactly what you’d guess.

“A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature”...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:25:22 -0700

“A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature” (1966). Written and produced by John and Faith Hubley and animated by Gerard Baldwin, Phil Duncan, Emery Hawkins, Barrie Nelson, Rod Scribner and Ed Smith.

(via Metafilter)

Okay, NOW it’s...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:04:28 -0700

Okay, NOW it’s summer.

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Love this cover. benjaminhilts: newyorker: In this week’s...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:32:03 -0700

Love this cover.

benjaminhilts:

newyorker:

In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/

"With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner,..."

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:25:14 -0700

“With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of The Wire.”

- The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected - Biography - NYTimes.com

Chuck Jones: “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower...

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:24:06 -0700

Chuck Jones: “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” (1965)

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Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:27:00 -0700

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“I think I was always misunderstood. People just...

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:33:00 -0700

“I think I was always misunderstood. People just didn’t think to like me. I think I annoyed them … I got on their nerves. I don’t know way. It was just the way it was. Maybe I was too intense.”

(via pal Julianna on Facebook)