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wilwheaton: rstevens: Name’s Jeff. Animated Jeff. This is...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:32:39 -0500

rstevens:

Name’s Jeff.

Animated Jeff.

This is where I’d put a picture of my face, with cartoon hearts over my eyes, only the hearts are beating, because I love this so much.

Okay, Tumblr pr0n, you heard the boss. Clean it up! #Yahoo...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:11 -0500

Okay, Tumblr pr0n, you heard the boss. Clean it up! #Yahoo #Trunc-hate

This drama queen is owning my backyard right now.

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:47:01 -0500

This drama queen is owning my backyard right now.

bunnyfood: STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS Daft Punk-...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:28:18 -0500

bunnyfood:

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS

Daft Punk- Goat Lucky

It’s got a good bleat and you can dance to it!

*St. Bernard not to scale.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:34:09 -0500

*St. Bernard not to scale.

nprfreshair: Over at The NOOK Blog David Sedaris, whose new...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:10:37 -0500

nprfreshair:

Over at The NOOK Blog David Sedaris, whose new book is called Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, names his Five Favorite Unusual Book Titles. They’re pretty funny. Also, charming and poetic. For example:

3. A Passion For Donkeys by Elisabeth D. Svendsen

This is a non-fiction book, but the title would work just as well for a novel or poetry collection.

In other news: It’s SEDARIS DAY on the show tomorrow.

HT Susan Orlean

Image via Flickr

» 4. Six Studies In Quarreling by Vincent Brome

the-overlook-hotel: The iconic carpeting of The Shining and...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:03:08 -0500

the-overlook-hotel:

The iconic carpeting of The Shining and Twin Peaks collide.

Artist: Jared Lyon

I’m not saying she is. I’m just saying…...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:30:43 -0500

I’m not saying she is. I’m just saying… I’m not sure she isn’t. That’s all I’m saying. Nothing more. Just that.

dailyotter: Otter Slides Down a Water Slide Via Das Otterhaus

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:04:01 -0500

dailyotter:

Otter Slides Down a Water Slide

Via Das Otterhaus

It was between Chloé and Au Pair by Larry Clark. I bought a...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:39:17 -0500

It was between Chloé and Au Pair by Larry Clark. I bought a gallon of each.

Today’s rainy day reads included the lovely @MaudNewton...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:40:25 -0500

Today’s rainy day reads included the lovely @MaudNewton contribution to “What My Mother Gave Me.”

Caturday whiskerbomb, courtesy HGB.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:17:53 -0500

Caturday whiskerbomb, courtesy HGB.

maudnewton: Molly Crabapple grew up thinking of art not as...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:17:58 -0500

maudnewton:

Molly Crabapple grew up thinking of art not as “something where you had to get an MFA from Yale then schmooze people in New York,” but as a trade that paid the bills. Her mother—who raised her alone—illustrated toy packaging for products like Cabbage Patch Kids and Holly Hobby. “Being an artist was how my mom fed me. … It was an almost working-class way to make a living.”

She’s carried this attitude with her. Although Crabapple is respectful of many who’ve gone through formal, higher training she finds the idea that you can apply credentials to art “morally objectionable. Art is a trade, and creativity and talent is a gift. … What people are essentially saying now, when they’re saying oh, you have to have an MFA to be a legit artist, is you have to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a legit artist, and to me, that’s so revoltingly classist.” There are many ways to make a living through art, Crabapple says, “and the Internet’s really magnifying that.”

For the New Republic, I write about art after Occupy Wall Street, Molly Crabapple’s view of art as a trade and creativity as a gift, and her politically charged work, including the massive paintings of her new show, “The Shell Game,” which Chris Hayes calls “bracing, exuberant altarpieces for the revolution.

Punk. Rock.