January 2011
38 posts
Scrap Iron. by E.B. White (4/3/1937)
Old, Dead Automobiles, moldering in roadside graveyards, have long been a worrisome sight in this country. We peer into glades and glen, and find bodies decomposing there, stripped of tires and batteries. Foreigners, visiting us, are appalled at the spectacle, and write letters home to their papers about American wealth and waste. But today these carcasses lie uneasily in their burial grounds,...
“Following on the heels of his last film, Happy-Go-Lucky, which also sought to...”
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“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence...”
– Elie Wiesel (via splatterdick)
“The thing about being irresponsible is it’s only cute till you are about...”
– Donald Miller (via quote-book)
try being 29…ugh…
30 Healthiest Foods
lizlemon:
nyminute:
According to Real Simple Magazine, the following are 30 super-foods to incorporate into your diet.
almonds
avocados
barley
black beans
blueberries
broccoli
bulgur
chard
chicken breasts
edamame
eggs
extra virgin olive oil
kale
kidney beans
kiwi
lentils
mushrooms
oatmeal
oranges
peanut and almond butters
pumpkin (good news, tumblr!)
quinoa
sardines
...
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say...”
– Fred (Mr.) Rogers
(via apsies)
Cyberspace When You're Dead →
Nevertheless: people die. For most of us, the fate of tweets and status updates and the like may seem trivial (who cares — I’ll be dead!). But increasingly we’re not leaving a record of life by culling and stowing away physical journals or shoeboxes of letters and photographs for heirs or the future. Instead, we are, collectively, busy producing fresh masses of life-affirming...
“Hard-core porn, which is what Internet porn largely traffics in, is undoubtedly...”
– Natasha Vargas-Cooper ponders sex and porn in the Internet age.
Read the full article here. (via theatlantic)
Ta-Nehisi Coates 1, Kanye -1 →
I like the beats on Kanye West’s new album. I love the inversion of that famous line about Malcolm X—“That’s too much power for one man to have.” I think he’s an improved MC. But I’m a little amazed that no one’s disturbed by “Champagne wishes/30 white bitches” as a hook. I’m more amazed at his empty employment of white women as...
Kevin Devine “carnival” from the...