everyday observations of regular people: Archive

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Get Your War On: The Watch List - 236 - Video honestly, i think i would take umbrage. pure gold and automatically in my top 5 favorite web shows. i have an autographed, first-run printing of this book too. hadn’t paid attention much to it the past few years so this was a very pleasant surprise. via rex

Aug 1st

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Jul 31st

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New York Public Library Menu Collection is... →

Rebecca Federman has a pretty sweet job. As a librarian at the New York Public Library, she’s in charge of the menu collection stacks. Who knew such a department even existed?! In this video interview with Chow, Federman shows us the collection, first organized in 1900 by Miss Frank E. Buttolph. Menus take us through history: from prohibition (no wine list), to presidential dinners, to...

Jul 24th

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Jul 24th

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“The circumstances of women’s lives…provide examples for new ways of thinking...”

– Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of Margaret Mead, whose book of social anthropology, Composing a Life, is giving me far too much to think about right now. (via rach) that last sentence/question is hitting home for me this week.

Jul 21st

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cubicle17: Bon Iver - “For Emma, Forever Ago” (from his Take Away Show) He nailed it. in other news, if you’re curious about my feelings towards technology in 2008: i’m finally dropping off the first two rolls of tri-x to get finished tomorrow i’m very, very close to ordering custom letterpress calling cards/stationery

Jul 21st

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Savile Row →

Part 1 of a 3 part documentary about Savile Row, the street in London, where the worlds leading bespoke tailors have made suits for the rich and famous for several centuries. Where Churchill bought his pinstripe and Fred Astaire, his tails. The filming coincides with the arrival of an undesirable element on the street, Abercrombie and Fitch. would’ve included the video but, surprisingly, i...

Jul 20th

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Jul 19th

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NPR: Your Big Suburban House Is Making You... →

Humans think they’d prefer a bigger house in the suburbs over a smaller place in the city, and never mind the commute. The latest science says they’re wrong.

Jul 19th

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How to Travel by Cargo Ship →

livejamie: I would have never thought about this.. my mom has been trying to do this for a long time now. along with a train across canada. there are some romantic qualities to industrial travel but they mostly like on the outskirts of human interest.

Jul 19th

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Jul 19th

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147xxxx: Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)...

Jul 19th

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Jul 18th

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“It’s vague.”

– John Mayer, describing his relationship status to a woman he was hitting on in an Amsterdam coffeeshop. (via goldenfiddle) more reasons why mr. mayer is one of my top 5 favorite celebs.

Jul 18th

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Jul 18th

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“Okay…uhhh…can I have 27 grande ice coffees? And can you write these names on the...”

– another intern stuck getting coffee for the whole office (via 147xxxx) great blog by a real starbucks barista in manhattan.

Jul 17th

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“There’s always time to add stuff later — later is eternal, now is fleeting.”

– Getting Real (by 37signals) (via deplorableword)

Jul 17th

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“Fuck the casual viewer. Seriously, who wants a casual viewer? If you’re a writer...”

– David Simon, creator of The Wire. (via errorgorilla, peterwknox) (via marco)

Jul 17th

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Jul 17th

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve...”

– Nick Carrawy in The Great Gatsby (via urg)

Jul 16th

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thomas prior.

i haven’t seen stuff this good in a while. separately, and from a post in april: -This was on one of the Nike jobs Luis did in 2000. -The location is in the middle of nowhere, California. -It was 5 in the morning and cold as shit. -A few hours later it was 99 degrees. -The day before, we saw Tim Burton filming his crappy “Planet Of The Apes.” -This girls husband was Wayne...

Jul 16th

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“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

– Aesop (via gina) …and you forge on.

Jul 16th

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“This connects to a mystery about the iPhone. What’s the reason that copy and...”

– The iPhone’s Missing Copy & Paste: The Dog that Didn’t Bark in the Night (via azspot). This is a stupid implication. The iPhone doesn’t have copy-and-paste because it has no universal notion of text selection or context menus in standard text input fields, and designing such features in a...

Jul 15th

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Jul 15th

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soft realizations.

her: i think i lost brain cells in college.
me: we all did
me: it just matters how well you hide it
her: haha but i can't hide it
me: can i blog this convo?
her: haha do you even have a blog?  you don't write about your day and post hot backwards hat pics like you used to
me: consider this a start
her: haha nice

Jul 15th

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Anheuser-Busch Agrees to Be Sold to InBev -... →

majority of american beer goes from “shitty” to “probably not much better.”

Jul 14th

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NPR: NYT: NPR Is Canceling The 'BPP' →

very unfortunate. the host chair was never really settled since an early exit by one of the original co-hosts but this was still a solid, relevant journalistic outpost.

Jul 14th

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