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laughingsquid:

What Is This Unknown Pleasure, A Joy Division Album T-Shirt For the Tumblr Generation

There’s this article on the image, the album cover, and the Pulsar PSR B1919+21, also called CP1919, including many interesting bits about the image and how it ended up in publication in the first place.

(via runjuliet)

theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

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I’m telling everyone I work with.  Booksellers often fall prey to an abundance of books for sale around them at all times.  I, ahem, cough cough, may have been like this once or twice.  Cough cough.

nevver:

Biblio-

Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

(via 4tones)

jesspinkman:

being a pessimist is great i’m always either right or pleasantly surprised 

#the optimistic look on pessimism  

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”  ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind

Was anyone pleasantly surprised this was lifted almost verbatim?  I say almost, but it surely lacks the grace and wit of the original, as well as the capitalization and punctuation.

I almost never mind when people toss off a well-known or not-so-well known quote and attribute it to anonymous or ‘someone once said’; we don’t all know everything and sometimes things are obscure.  But this was all too easily Google-able.  Also, throwing out a quote with attribution does not make you any less cool.

(Source: xcyst, via shoebie-love)

I just gave my two year old son a mint.  An Altoids.  Even I think they are powerful.  He just smiled and said “Elicious!”  Close, kid, close.

I’m trying to give him some of the stuff he regularly steals from me.  Maybe it will dissuade him from theft.  The other week, my wife said to me “You really need to clean up your desk.  There’s like 20 gum wrappers on it.  Can’t you just throw those in the trash?”  He had eaten two packs of gum and left the wrappers behind.

It’s important to note that nothing horrible happens to children who eat a insane amount of gum.  There were no disturbing consequences.  If you get my drift.

I’m either raising a master jewel thief or an extreme sports aficionado.

(Source: quotes-shape-us, via ktothestein)

Camera Obscura - Lloyd, Im ready to be heartbroken (by VidZone)  Great pop music.  Why is it that the best pop songs are tinged with melancholy?  This is as great as the song it references.

Don’t Do Drugs, Kids!

(via All of Murray’s New Zealand Tourism posters from Flight of the Conchords)

(via George Takei’s Nine Favorite Star Trek Memes - The Daily Beast)

alexob:

DIY bionics - making kids smile again.

See the joy in Liam’s eyes as he is grasping a ball with his right hand for the first time. By the time this cute fellow grows up, he will have a bionic hand that will be connected to his neural-system and be indistinguishable from his biological body; but for now all Liam cares about is being able to play ball. 

(via throateyeandknucklebone)

Moustache! (original art by Al Feldstein, original comic was Modern Love)

Dance With The Dolly With The Hole In Her Stocking - The Andrews Sisters (by beyoncetyratina)  For as long as I can remember, my mom has sung this song to all the dogs in the family, lifting up their front paws to dance with them as she sings.  They all loved it.  It’s the same tune as Buffalo Gals, which confused me, as the lyrics are somewhat different, but it looks like an adaptation of Buffalo Gals.  This is a scene from the film “Her Lucky Night”.

(Source: newfilosophia)