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30 January 12 by laragazzabreve
And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe, despite the callow protestations of certain adults, that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.
— Sherman Alexie, “Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood.” You can imagine why I love this article on many levels.
Posted: 8:25 PM by jpjayp

pleatedjeans:

How to Eat Food (a few more here)

Damn son.

Reblogged: pleatedjeans

Posted: 3:37 PM by simplesinger
“If, in 2003, America was finally able to look at a two year-old photograph suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew about how people died on 9/11, by 2007 it was primed to watch a prime-time melodrama suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew about how people lived in 1960. It was ready to hear that what it had always regarded as American exceptionalism got its start as American entitlement, and was always fated to fall back to earth.” via Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man

“If, in 2003, America was finally able to look at a two year-old photograph suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew about how people died on 9/11, by 2007 it was primed to watch a prime-time melodrama suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew about how people lived in 1960. It was ready to hear that what it had always regarded as American exceptionalism got its start as American entitlement, and was always fated to fall back to earth.”

via Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man

Posted: 1:08 PM by simplesinger

danacake:

#ballsdeepinyouropticnerve

(Source: itsbiebersperry1d)

Reblogged: moreinteresting

Posted: 12:28 PM by simplesinger

Official 2012 Honda CR-V Game Day Commercial - “Matthew’s Day Off” Extended Version (by Honda)

Posted: 10:21 AM by simplesinger
calumet412: 3 renditions of Despradelle’s Beacon of Progress monument, which was proposed for construction on the site of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Chicago wanted something to rival the Eiffel Tower of Paris. The scale of the monument would have made it the tallest structure in the world (even taller than the Sears Tower, which would not be built for another 70 years). Ultimately, lack of funding was the demise of it’s creation.

calumet412:

3 renditions of Despradelle’s Beacon of Progress monument, which was proposed for construction on the site of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Chicago wanted something to rival the Eiffel Tower of Paris. The scale of the monument would have made it the tallest structure in the world (even taller than the Sears Tower, which would not be built for another 70 years). Ultimately, lack of funding was the demise of it’s creation.

Reblogged: calumet412

Posted: 10:20 AM by simplesinger
calumet412: In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright proposed design plans for The Illinois, a mile high sky scraper that would have been twice as tall as the recently completed Burj Khalifa in Duabai. These renditions show the original drawings and what our skyline would look like now if it had been built. From wikipedia: The Mile High Illinois, Illinois Sky-City, or simply The Illinois was a proposed skyscraper that would have been 1 mile (1,600 m) high, envisioned by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956. The design, intended to be built in Chicago, would have included 528 stories, with a gross area of 18,460,000 square feet (1,715,000 m2). Had it been built, it would have been the tallest building in the world by far, being more than four times the height of the then tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building, and it would be nearly twice as tall as the world’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

calumet412:

In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright proposed design plans for The Illinois, a mile high sky scraper that would have been twice as tall as the recently completed Burj Khalifa in Duabai. These renditions show the original drawings and what our skyline would look like now if it had been built.

From wikipedia:

The Mile High Illinois, Illinois Sky-City, or simply The Illinois was a proposed skyscraper that would have been 1 mile (1,600 m) high, envisioned by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956. The design, intended to be built in Chicago, would have included 528 stories, with a gross area of 18,460,000 square feet (1,715,000 m2). Had it been built, it would have been the tallest building in the world by far, being more than four times the height of the then tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building, and it would be nearly twice as tall as the world’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

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29 January 12 by jpjayp
nprfreshair: Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of cheese. Bennink drums cheese 2 (by squiddity of toronto) That is all.

nprfreshair:

Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of cheese.

Bennink drums cheese 2 (by squiddity of toronto)

That is all.

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28 January 12 by jpjayp
It’s sort of like saying it is hard for you to believe that a punch in the balls isn’t better than a kick in the balls.
— In the comment section, South Side Sox very clearly describes the order of players in the Sox minor league system. Needless to say, things do not look good.
Posted: 12:29 PM by jpjayp
You could dance to much of it, but I can’t imagine a social situation in which anyone actually would.
— This sentence right here is why I love Chuck Klosterman’s writing.
Posted: 12:27 PM by jpjayp
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

simplesinger:

Some new Miike Snow for ya.

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Posted: 12:23 PM by jpjayp

“Today, Brock Berglund is released from his scholarship at KU to pursue other opportunities. Brock and his representatives have publicly stated their case without any public response from me to this point. Brock spent the majority of the past calendar year in Colorado taking online courses at KU’s expense, which was nearly $40,000. At no time was Brock an active participant of the football team. Once competition was recruited at the quarterback position, Brock decided he no longer wanted to be a part of the team. He was expected to show up for a mandatory team meeting on Sunday, Jan. 15, but he sent an email less than two hours before the meeting to inform us that he had decided to transfer and would not be attending the meeting. He was dismissed after following through on that promise.

“Although Brock has been granted his release, I only wish that he had showed the same courtesy that other players showed and came to talk to me. He decided that he did not have to follow the same protocol as the other departing members of the football team. I believe no individual should be more important than the team. Brock did not see it that way.”
— Charlie Weis, you stay classy…
27 January 12 by simplesinger
26 January 12 by simplesinger
think4yourself: (via Tweet Of The Day | The Moderate Voice)

think4yourself:

(via Tweet Of The Day | The Moderate Voice)

Reblogged: apoplecticskeptic

Posted: 4:32 PM by simplesinger
We’ve become a country that values shareholders over citizens, and it’s this whole bullshit about corporations are people. They’re not. … that’s what’s gotten crazy. You can’t be a person if other people can’t kick your ass.
— Jon Stewart, The Daily Show (via madelinelime)

Reblogged: keeptheballrolling

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh