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A thing I miss

Personal blogs where people write A LOT and it is VERY GOOD. Does anyone know of one that I maybe...

davidcho: HighSnobiety: Uniqlo’s Designer Invitation...

Newsweek's Oscars Roundtable

Dedicated to all the people getting laid off.

You Heard It Here First, Thursday...

You know what’s going to be rad? Martin Scorsese’s show for HBO, Boardwalk Empire. Well,...

applearts: Interior design room

The New Muxtape

The Places We Live

I should really be working.

A: lets become rabbis
R: is that a stable profession?
A: people need spiritual guidance
R: would we even make good rabbis?
A: professional jewish mothers?
R: please let that be a job
i think we could make a killing
mother: you really want to eat that?
child: i had a small lunch today, mom
mother: [puts palms up by face, lifts eyebrows], OK, I didn't say you couldn't eat it. I just asked if you wanted to.
child: [enrolls in therapy]
A: We could manage jewish mothers
R: "Guilt Buy Association, LLP"

Some days I think I still want to have it all explained to...

Thank you, Nanci Griffith for existing. Especially today.

joshruben: recently seen on the west side highway

The Broadway nerd deep inside my chest is LOVING this behind...

Sam Bassett, who I just fell in love with this second. [VIA...

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless...”
— Oh, Frank O’ Hara.

“I enjoy trying to bring across an idea — maybe more the idea...”
— Tyler Angle, star of NYC...

Favorite maybe unsubstantiated culture rumor of the day:...

robot-heart: Etsy :: marmar :: Little Dino WANT IT!

It’s addictive. Try it here.

I am FULL ON obsessed with Tilt Shift Maker, which puts your...

“The talk show host donned her custom made Nicole...

smarthistory.org

Dawn Powell.

[One thing Caroline and Lorna had in common was an overpowering reverence for high-brows, no matter...

From the You Heard It Here First files: An Education is...

“Frankly, the Williams quartet was a bit hokey. For Obama to...”
— Mark Swed, LA Times

Obama's People, photographs by Nadav Kander

abelson: THAT BOW, ftw.

[via] There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t...

“As I stand here tonight, what gives me the greatest hope of...”
— THE PRESIDENT (in t-minus...

only in new york kids…

Maybe I’m crazy, but all I think I really want for V-day is the cast iron skull of a...

Sometimes (all the time) I wish I could wake up and have my voice sound just like Werner...

Kanako Saksaki, Yellow Leotard, 2003.

Britta P—Winter Tour You know, because it’s cold.

I liked it.

Adam: so my headline for chinese food
MAO TZE NOM
was shot down
so now it's Hung(ry) Like an Ox

Sort of loving the Times Critical...

[The job is, in many cases, the second one a girl has after working in a fast-food chain, and the...

thought that i should probably keep to...

The Girl Talk record is much like the Jesus Prayer from Franny and Zooey--once through is inane,...

“JUST BLAZE.”
— My friend Cristina, who has...

Cute Things Falling Asleep

Is/Not, Margaret Atwood Which does not need to be understood or washed or cauterized, which...

New York, from Emily Wick’s lineoleum state motto...

Lily Cole by Miles Aldridge Lambda print, 2005

[But the density of city life doesn’t just make it harder to focus: It also interferes with...

The autotune on the new Bon Iver EP

Is ridiculous. In a good way. I am loving this in music. Please listen to The Woods. K thx.

Martin Munkacsi [Peignoir in a light breeze], 1936

Hit Factory—Divider DUDES. I haven’t promoted a new band in a while, so take this with...

“Sometimes I wonder what type of shampoo Ms. D uses. Man, she...”
— Student Dawayad, free-write,...

Apparently, the Vatican is now putting out a pin-up...

Warning.

Going to California, even for two days, will make you think that there is an alternate version of...

And now, we primp.

“Would you like one boiled egg or two? Must eat boiled eggs,...”
— One of my gracious hosts out...

Leaving for LA in half a day.

From Famous People, Famous Places—photographs by Bruce...

Must re-read in ‘09. It’s out of print now,...

“…if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal...”
— Anthony Powell, Books Do...

I love them too much. Especially when I should be doing work instead.

ninefruits: What I See - Dirty Projectors Man this one is doing me all sorts of right today.

“There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding...”
— Dawn Powell.

There are B movies, and then there are B movies that deserve an A. Last night, C&D, M&M,...

J. Parker Valentine, Untitled, 2007.

Holla

Ohhai Tumblr. I am back. As Larry McMurtry/E. Annie Proulx might write, and close-minded college...