February 2010
75 posts
January 2010
130 posts
“We’ll be through the criminal justice system and home in time for Buffy!”
– Quinn Morgendorfer
“There is no moment, no facet, no aspect of life that can’t be improved...”
– Daria Morgendorfer
Vintage USA →
outerworldly:
This is my new favorite website. Blown-up user submitted photographs from around the US… different eras.. so far I’ve seen 1800’s - 1970’s. Pages upon pages, all amazing.
“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us...”
– Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via nevver) (via honeyhands)
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
shynessisnice:
thisistheglamorous:-smart-tart-:proustianmemory:jhnbrssndn:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
fuck yeah criticize john...
:(
RIP HOWARD ZINN
“It is not surprising that no famine has ever taken place in the history of the...”
– Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen
“If freedom is what development advances, then there is a major argument for...”
– Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen
“…the understandable but distorting tendency of Europeans to inflate their...”
– “Why Europe and the West and not China?”, David S. Landes
“My little Friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable Panegyric upon your...”
– “A Voyage to Brobdingnag”, Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
“On the contrary, in order for Haiti to rebuild itself in dignity, national...”
– Debt is Haiti’s real curse by Francesca Denly & Marie Lagotta
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Nick Drake (24)
Broken Social Scene (22)
Yo La Tengo (20)
Brian Eno & David Byrne (11)
+/- (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The most important cause of the inequality transition is the spread of...”
– The New Geography of Global Income Inequality, Glenn Firebaugh
Supreme Court Hands Elections to Corporations
shynessisnice:
In a 5-4 decision handed down by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and backed by five Republican presidential appointees, the court ruled that corporations and unions can spend their own treasury funds on broadcast ads or billboards in favor of a particular political candidate or urging the defeat of another.
this enrages me, are we providing corporations with the same rights...
“There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray...”
– Francoise Hardy, French singer, actress and fashion icon. (via oceanofmind)
“The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties.”
– Ted Kennedy (via azspot) (via honeyhands)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Talking Heads (51)
Radiohead (35)
múm (19)
Soundtrack (18)
Wim Mertens (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...”
– Franny and Zooey; J.D. Salinger
(via chocolate-cigarettes) (via chapter13)
(via meepmeepmeep)
Brian Eno on the naming of things →
austinkleon:
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t….My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a musician. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing...
[reblog me!] haiti earthquake resources
sweethomestyle:
Thanks so much for linking me to this, ixa! I’m glad to reblog it (sorry, I had to remove the American Airlines bit though. Unfortunately, it’s not true).
ixa:
Guys, please repost this information everywhere you can. It is essential that we get these resources circulated to everyone that we can manage.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:
→ Make a donation at your local Publix . You can...
