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July 22, 2012
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pearlfectchassi: Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie awaiting arrest in Houston, TX 1955. Yes they were Freedom Riders too!

pearlfectchassi:

Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie awaiting arrest in Houston, TX 1955. Yes they were Freedom Riders too!

Tags: african-american history Ella Fitzgerald dizzy gillespie jazz photographs civil rights

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July 05, 2012
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literaryartifacts: via Lit Hum

literaryartifacts:

via Lit Hum

Tags: writing never not relevant poetry emily dickinson

Text
July 05, 2012
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I asked myself
What, Sappho, can
You give one who
has everything,
like Aphrodite?

—Sappho (trans. Mary Barnard)

******

Happy twelfth anniversary, lady.  Let’s celebrate by hiding indoors until the relentless brain-frying soul-killing 102F heat wave finally heads out east.

Tags: supersonic super-sapphic love

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July 02, 2012
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slaughterhouse90210: “I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl… who was as serious as I was.”—Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

slaughterhouse90210:

“I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl… who was as serious as I was.”
—Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

Tags: daria god shuffled her feet

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June 21, 2012
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sunsetgun: Ugh. Kids.

sunsetgun:

Ugh. Kids.

Tags: Truth in advertising they had thirteen freaking hours to get off the island away from the birds but they just sat there alfred hitchcock

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June 17, 2012
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debilitating: Don’t Forget to Write (by Jamie Milk)

debilitating:

Don’t Forget to Write (by Jamie Milk)

(via carnetimaginaire)

Tags: art illustrations jamie milk up

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June 14, 2012
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fuckyournoguchicoffeetable: Fuck your vignette of tiny vintage glass bottles. I love vignettes of tiny vintage glass bottles.  If I didn’t have cats who like to knock random shit over then my entire house would resemble an early 19th century apothecary’s.

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:

Fuck your vignette of tiny vintage glass bottles.

I love vignettes of tiny vintage glass bottles.  If I didn’t have cats who like to knock random shit over then my entire house would resemble an early 19th century apothecary’s.

Tags: tiny vintage glass bottles missing the point since 1970

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June 13, 2012
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theparisreview: “I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.” —E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1

theparisreview:

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”

—E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1

Tags: photographs writing E.B. White puppies! nice animal pictures nice human pictures

Photoset
June 13, 2012
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minusmanhattan:

Photos from the set of Mad Men by James Minchin III. I love these two of cast members using modern tech. Full set here at Rolling Stone. 

Thanks Ned and Stacy.

Tags: photographs Mad Men

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June 12, 2012
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(Source: alleyeseeing)

Tags: photographs african-american en garde