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We had a very strange relationship… because I made fun of him, and nobody ever made fun of Hemingway.

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The thing you never get from his books is his humor… But when he relaxed, he was riotously funny.

Orson Welles, smoking a cigar, on Hemingway.

( Page Turner  book patrol)

Well, now I have an image in my head of Hemingway and Welles going at each other in a windmill-style slap fight. That’s fun!

Pickles the cat responds to leash threat, film festival

Internet cat videos finally get the spotlight they deserve at this Minnesota festival

“The Walker has advised, if you bring your cat put it on a leash,” said Josh Feist, a Minneapolis arts administrator who planned to take his cat, Pickles, to the show.

“What the shit?” — Pickles

Not Pickles

(Pickles approximation courtesy AP)

Via Good Teeth

The Matrix has Me

True story: Last night, I dreamt I’d joined the Romney campaign press pool just in time for a multi-state bus tour.

There was one talking point: the candidate’s unconditional support for Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot.

Needless to say, no one was allowed to speak, print or even mime the band’s name.

When I woke up, I reached for my phone to Google “pepper-spraying cop meme, cats.”

Problem solved.

Pussy Riot

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