A Man With All His Faculties Intact

heyoscarwilde: Breakfast is the most important meal of the...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:38:59 -0400

heyoscarwilde:

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

illustration by Jorsh Pena ::: via mrjorshpena.blogspot.com

Django Reinhardt—Tea for Two

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:49:35 -0400

Django Reinhardt—Tea for Two

It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t feel like it. Yogi

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:48:11 -0400

It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t feel like it.

Yogi

South Dakota Plains

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:38:16 -0400

Nowhere, not even at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains…their vastness and loneliness and their melancholy monotony have a strong fascination for him. The landscape seems always the same, and after the traveler has plodded on for miles and miles he gets to feel as if the distance were really boundless. As far as the eye can see, there is no break; either the prairie stretches out in perfectly flat levels, or else there are gentle, rolling slopes…when one of these is ascended, immediately another precisely like it takes its place in the distance, and so roll succeeds roll in a succession as interminable as that of the waves in the ocean. Nowhere else does one feel so far off from all mankind; the plains stretch out in deathless and measureless expanse, and as he journeys over them they will for many miles be lacking in all signs of life.

Teddy Roosevelt

Cheap Time—Back to School I’m not

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:33:26 -0400

Cheap Time—Back to School

I’m not

Sobbin’ Blues—King Oliver’s Creole Jazz...

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:55:50 -0400

Sobbin’ Blues—King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

The first step is to pee and make coffee, which I can deal with, and after that what happens is not in firm hands.

—Jim Harrison

I felt I had to go. A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.

—Matthew Brady

Photo

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:58:42 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Tom Wolfe and Kurt...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:07:33 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut

(submitted by Robin)

Video

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:00:48 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Chevy Chase & John...

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:19:49 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Chevy Chase & John Belushi, New York City, 1976.

Photo by Michael Tighe

aconversationoncool: Women Before 10 a.m.

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:08:17 -0400

aconversationoncool:

Women Before 10 a.m.

High Llamas—To The Abbey IMPOSSIBLE CALM, BEAUTIFUL...

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:28:22 -0400

High Llamas—To The Abbey

IMPOSSIBLE CALM, BEAUTIFUL WEATHER

Animal Tracks—Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:57:04 -0400

Animal Tracks—Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

iwdrm: “We accept the reality of the world with which we are...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:00:15 -0400

iwdrm:

“We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.”

The Truman Show (1998)

"so avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. a man is not very tired, he is exhausted. don’t..."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:58:59 -0400

“so avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. a man is not very tired, he is exhausted. don’t use very sad, use morose. language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”

- Dead Poets Society (1989)

iwdrm: “At times like this, I wish I was but a simple...

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:30:09 -0400

iwdrm:

“At times like this, I wish I was but a simple peasant.”

The Pink Panther (1963)

Kingsley Amis

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:44:33 -0400

Here is a list of things I have understood.

i. There are only two sorts of things, bad and good.

ii. When he gets the good, a man ought to be glad.

iii. When he gets the bad, a man ought to be sad.

iv. Some of the good are joking, smoking, soaking,

And (if you will permit the expression) poking.

v. In a bad place these are absent, or even banned.

vi. In a good place they are frequent, or ready to hand.

vii. And i want as much of them as I can stand.

deleteyourself: I got an ill Merlion for the crib.

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:35:19 -0400

deleteyourself:

I got an ill Merlion for the crib.

China moves to make all of its museums free of charge

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:11:02 -0500

China moves to make all of its museums free of charge:

deleteyourself:

This is especially interesting in a time where Republicans are trying to eliminate programs like the National Endowment for the Arts. The US is losing the race.

T. Rex—Electric Slim and the Factory Hen “Frozen...

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:14:47 -0500

T. Rex—Electric Slim and the Factory Hen

“Frozen feet on a winter street,

Man, that ain’t your fate.

Greased in the sun, California fun,

Man, that’s more my style”