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audiovision: Chinese photographer Ziang Xiao photographs...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:31:58 -0400

Chinese photographer Ziang Xiao photographs strange moments on the Chinese coast.

See more images of the infamous face-kini that took the Chinese coast by storm last summer on NPR’s The Two Way.

Every day.

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:23:43 -0400

Every day.

beautilation: “I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:17:53 -0400

beautilation:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:14:22 -0400

tiny-snapdragon: For @beingmeghan Best roommate. But also a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:23:18 -0400

tiny-snapdragon:

For @beingmeghan

Best roommate.

But also a joke killer, for real.

motherjones: inothernews: FLUBBER DUCKY Dutch artist...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:30:16 -0400

motherjones:

inothernews:

FLUBBER DUCKY Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s 54-foot-tall rubber duck is seen in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, on May 2 (top); after it suffered structural damage (middle); and finally, flat as a deflated souffle on Tuesday. Police are looking to question Bert the Muppet, who was seen fleeing the scene with a giant needle. (Photos: Bobby Yip / Reuters [top]; Tyrone Siu / Reuters [middle]; and Vincent Yu / AP via NBCNews.com)

Devastating.

Noooooooooo.

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:19:58 -0400

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

picadorbookroom: In honor of Children’s Book Week, here’s a...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:15:23 -0400

picadorbookroom:

In honor of Children’s Book Week, here’s a photo of an awesome kid.

npr: buzzfeed: You may have seen The Great Gatsby over the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:12:40 -0400

npr:

buzzfeed:

You may have seen The Great Gatsby over the weekend, but wait until you see The Great Catsby.

Of course. — tanya b.

strangeasanjles: alexandraerin: silverilly: bookshop: mydaywi...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:08:46 -0400

strangeasanjles:

alexandraerin:

silverilly:

bookshop:

mydaywithd:

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

bisexual opera singer who killed ten men and snuck into a convent to shag a nun.

Just so y’all know, she later set that convent on fire so she and that nun could sneak out. And she seduced one of the men she’d dueled.

Also, dueling was a serious crime during her life, but the king of France essentially overturned her conviction on the grounds that the relevant law specifically referred to men.

What a bad bitch.

im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:49:41 -0400

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

motherjones: smithsonianmag: Delivering a dinosaur to the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:48:30 -0400

motherjones:

smithsonianmag:

Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984

via atlasobscura

!!1

Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty's Narrative

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:32:30 -0400

Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty's Narrative:

wilwheaton:

Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes that made them look bad from the Zero Dark Thirty script.

Well knock me over with a feather.

Also, Jane Mayer’s book The Dark Side should be required reading on this particular topic.

vampyre: b-ridgett: this is so amazing All book shops should...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:16:10 -0400

vampyre:

b-ridgett:

this is so amazing

All book shops should do this!!

humansofnewyork: “He’s always there for me, even during tough...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:04:20 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“He’s always there for me, even during tough times.”
“What’s one tough time he was there for you?”
“When our dad got diagnosed with brain cancer.”

(San Francisco, CA)

itscolossal: The World’s Largest Rubber Duck Arrives in Hong...

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:50:40 -0400

itscolossal:

The World’s Largest Rubber Duck Arrives in Hong Kong

givemeajobplease: A very Dorothy Parker morning.

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:40:04 -0400

givemeajobplease:

A very Dorothy Parker morning.

beatonna: This is interesting - a documentary made in 1990...

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:48:54 -0400

beatonna:

This is interesting - a documentary made in 1990 about the last trains to go across Canada before they shut off the Sydney, Cape Breton route, and other routes inland. It’s made by an Australian, and as they go through the Maritimes he’s surprisingly (if dishearteningly) on point. Mom took my older sister and I on the train that year, before they shut down the line, so we’d be able to experience something that was disappearing.

Bonus: he meets Pierre Berton!! AND his bowtie

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:32:52 -0400

rljd: I have a ritual where if my phone isn’t showing enough...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:40:01 -0400

rljd:

I have a ritual where if my phone isn’t showing enough bars I wave it around, hoping its gyroscopes and clockworks will tell it something is happening and it will re-establish contact with the satellites in space and refresh my facebook comments.

or I just point it at a window, impatiently.