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10 Beautiful Buildings Inspired By Famous Books
Lovely and true Flavorwire excerpt: Truly wonderful books have a habit of growing and changing years after they’ve been written, worming themselves into places you might not expect — our decisions, our aesthetic and cultural sense, and even, with the right kind of care, our physical world.
An illustrated video tutorial on how to flee or disable a marauding homicidal robot.
My poetry mentor told me today that I needed to find my spot of memory, that place I go to, where my poetry is rooted, and the metaphorical or physical place I call home, whether or not it’s attainable. Second, he told me to find out what I fear, what really frightens me, and to steep in it. The only way you can really express what you feel, is to know what you’re afraid to feel and explore it. When I went to get my Friday the 13th tattoo, this is what I got.
waldeinsamkeit is an untranslatable German word, which means, as close as we can match, “the feeling of being alone in the woods.” I grew up in the forests and swamps of central Florida, and I’m haunted by their ghosts. What frightens me, what really scares me is not the dark in the woods, not the unknown beyond the fog, but the unveiling of the unknown. I never want to lose the weight you feel when you’re alone in the forest. I don’t want to know what lives beneath the swamp waters, never want it to lose that magic.
Peter Gonzalez was generous enough to substitute this for my Friday the 13th, $13 tattoo deal. He’s a brilliant artist working out of Chrome Lotus in downtown Orlando, FL.
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So wrong.
Andrew Sullivan: Why Gay Marriage is Good for America - The Daily Beast
There’s an oil boom in North Dakota right now equivalent to the California Gold Rush of 1849. (via nedhepburn)
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Justin Kirk and a Monkey! So much win.
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The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket)
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A ThinkProgress trailer showing what the REAL Hunger Games looks like.
That’s right. The Hunger Games hits the capital this week with the House of Representatives voting on a package that threatens more than $33 billion of nutritional assistance for the elderly, disabled, children and working poor.
Reblogging in case you haven’t seen this. You should.
MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a conservative journalist for refusing to answer her questions.
The ThinkProgress team actually paused what we were doing to watch this throwdown (quite rare).
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(From Deadspin.com)
An Arizona high school baseball team forfeited the state championship game Wednesday rather than face an opponent whose squad featured a black* player.
That’s according to the Arizona Republic, which explains Our Lady of Sorrows Academy—a school run by an offshoot…