February 2012
182 posts
Neil Gaiman: Where I wish I was going to be this... →
neil-gaiman:
PEN New England & The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library cordially invite you…
The 2012 Awards for
Lyrics of Literary Excellence
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Your very favorite librarian: Dirty words of 1811 →
yourveryfavoritelibrarian:
By Cory Doctorow at 12:23 pm Tuesday, Feb 21
On Project Gutenberg, the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s “Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue,” a compleat look at all the dirty cussin’ of the early 1800s. It was produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed…
hitRECordJoe: The Inner Ring →
hitrecordjoe:
A commencement speech given by C. S. Lewis edited by hitRECordJoe original version here
The Inner Ring By C. S. Lewis
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for middle-aged moralising….
Perilous: Target Corporation's obsessive... →
ageofperil:
When a Minnesota-area man received coupons for baby products from the Target Corporation addressed to his teenage daughter, he was outraged. My daughter is in high school, he complained to a Target store manager. Why are you sending her this stuff? Turns out she was, in fact, pregnant, but he…
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Watchdcu:
I don’t normally post full episodes of TV shows, but this week’s 30 Rock episode The Tuxedo Begins is filled with tons of The Dark Knight references and casts Liz Lemon as the Joker to Jack Donaghy’s Batman.
This whole episode was genius. The best I’ve seen in a while.
Watchneil-gaiman:
Just watch this. (If it lets you watch it where you are.)
“You’ve confused a war on religion with not always getting everything you want.”
H2O: 2 parts Heart, 1 part Obsession: Phelps using... →
swimthefly:
NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Phelps is the latest athlete to use a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery from training.
The 16-time Olympic medalist said Wednesday he had been sleeping “at 8,000 feet every night” for almost a year. The 26-year-old swimmer noticed he bounced back from workouts better…
I WANT ONE.
medioxumatepoet asked: How original. What book was that anyway?
Quiz: Guns N' Roses Song or Life-Affirming Book at...
mentalflossr:
Are these titles songs from Guns N’ Roses albums or books featured by the checkout counter in CVS? Take the quiz.
8 out of 9…not bad!
