February 2011
January 2011
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahfitzgerald)
“Your breast is enough for my heart,
and my wings for your freedom.
What was...”
– Pablo Neruda (via gentlytheday)
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via fashionninag)
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fashionninag)
condenasttraveler:
standardhotels:
(Sunrise in Iceland. Where else?)
Today’s favorite Tumblr is all about sunrises and we suspect sunsets. Some are not even taken during either moment, but nonetheless, there is pretty light within all the landscapes. All we know is that we get lost in these images photographed around the world…
Take a look at Eighteen Seconds Before Sunrise.
#FF. This...
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via amiquote)
A job-killing plan for arts and culture? →
hydeordie:
If you gave me a buck, and next year I returned $18.75 to you, would you think that was a good deal? I would. With savings accounts, money markets and even stocks yielding just a few percentage points on investments these days, a return in excess of 18% is pretty staggering. Yet, that’s what happens with federal support for arts and culture. It pays for itself 18 times over. Federal...
Never Have a Boss Again: How to Be a New... →
thewordunheard:
Look at this fucking Internet BFF.
theveryfaraways:
“And yet, and yet. Scotland, with its concentration of landscapes, its highlands, lowlands, glens and fells, its mosses, waters, slaps and stiles, boasts most of the best food in the British isles. Our game, our beef and lamb, soft fruit, fish, shellfish and drink are the equal or superior of any country’s on earth.”
- Consider Haggis, Oliver Thring
bees-knees:
Everlasting Light, The Black...
“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon...”
– Robert Burns, “Ode to a Haggis”
Happy Burns Night! Anyone else going to a proper Burns Dinner tonight?
“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
(I’m just saying. That’s a helluva way to start off.)
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women...”
– Jean Piaget (via nathanielstuart)
“may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living...”
– E.E. Cummings (via liquidnight)
MTV's Racy New Series "Skins" Raises Legal... →
Classic example of British attitudes vs American ones.
(Also, the U.S. adaptation isn’t even good - if you want to watch Skins, go with the original version!)
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via obsoletedesolate)
Is My Fish Sustainable?
Learn which fish are sustainable and thus the best choices to order at restaurants or purchase at grocery stores at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx
They have a guide for each region, and their handy pocket guides have dotted lines so you can easily fold them up and carry them around with you.
Just because a restaurant offers a...
The French House Untouched for 100 Years By Hugh... →
lostsplendor:
A late 19th Century town-house in central France that was sealed up for more than 100 years has finally been opened to the public in accordance with its owner’s last wishes.
“I am, therefore I’ll think.”
– Ayn Rand (via nathanielstuart)