wanderlust

Lana Sator snuck into a Russian military rocket factory and lived to tell the tale….and post it on the Internet.

thedailywhat:

How To of the Day: Justin White’s “skittle burger recipe”: 

Step 1: Get skittles.

Step 2: Smash em together.

Step 3: Eat it or whatever.

The Skittleburgers taste like Skittleburgers!

[jublin.]

pikman:

gingerhaze:

cracked:

The original Avengers promo image and Kevin Bolk’s wonderful, pointed parody.

I’d see this movie.

pfffffffft

That’s her superpower, right? No wait, she kicks butt…maybe they could show that next time.

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bookoisseur:

This is awesome. I wish I could submit my resume like this all the time.

From the New York Times:

On Monday, as the United Nations Population Fund estimated the world’s population has reached seven billion, we asked Lynsey Addario to photograph women giving birth in a maternity ward in India.

Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 74 - 3rd movement

I think I’m in love.

For literary criticism to have any kind of political application today, literature must first have cultural currency. Here optimists are in the minority. Kirsch’s originality lies in a refusal to equate the existing crisis — literature is “on the verge of default,” he readily admits — with a permanent condition. Contemplating “our unmistakably fragmented literary culture,” Kirsch posits a virtuous circle derived from Trilling’s example. Trilling was “always less concerned with writers than with readers,” he points out, and “less interested in the way novels work than in the way we put them to work in our own lives.” Entertainment is peripheral, if not antithetical, to the true experience of literature, and it is surely less exciting than “the drama of individuals shaping their ideals and morals in reaction to texts.” The critic lives the drama, creating heroic readers in the process, and it is these readers who unite author, text and audience in a prospering literary culture.

(Source: thelifeguardlibrarian)

briesbookshelf-deactivated20110 asked: Thank you for following. Nice blog!

Thanks! I think you have a similar theme to my other blog. I’m interested to see what you do with yours!

Sunset v.

The close or final stage of any period.

Example:

“The White House proposal would let the Bush-era tax cuts to sunset for houses earning over $250,000.”

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