when the world is mud-luscious...when the world is puddle-wonderful...
-e.e. cummings
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Historical Fiction
Anyone have any MUST READ historical fiction recommendations?
I used this quote at the beginning of Just Listen.
After Dessen used this quote at the beginning of Just Listen, it became one of my favorite quotes. (By the way: SARAH DESSEN HAS A TUMBLR! The universe is so excited about this that the sun has apparently decided to explode.)
(Source: openuptheskies)
This video series is so awesome! Check out the other installments at:
Look at this awesome logo my friend designed for the blog - how cool!!
@NoPgLeftBehind: Logo?
Just so I’m clear: Misogyny in advertising on TV is totally okay. Violence on TV is totally okay. Encouraging people to self-diagnose mental illness on TV is totally okay.
Flipping the bird on TV, though, is totally not okay.
Is that pretty much it?
Okay, that’s what I thought. So, allow me to just say something real quick here, okay?
For fuck’s sake, America, it’s not the 1950s any more. Grow the fuck up.
The curative powers of stories…
The beard hat I made for my little brother…as modeled by moi!
I wanna get a tie like this for my Pippin pup!
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I never get enough of this guy…love Reggie Watts!!
my poetry shoebox: I Want to Be Your Shoebox
Memphis Minnie’s classic blues line “I want to be your chauffer” was miscopied in an early Folkways recording song transcription as “I want to be your shoebox.”
I want to be your shoebox
I want to be your Fort Knox
I want to be your equinox
I want to be your paradox
I want to be your…
(Source: opencity.org)
mais bien sur.: Ulysses
Love this poem…
ULYSSES
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will…
A Smattering of Christmas Books…
The Bloomington Booksters had a wonderful selection of Christmas books to choose from thanks to tumblr folks, bloggers, tweeps, etc. I thought it only fair to share with y’all a list of our favorite suggestions:
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
Thanks to everyone who helped us scrounge up some holiday books!
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.
Herzog, Saul Bellow (via outcamethesun)
(Source: crmerry)
(By: Craft & Creativity)
My new hair…I chopped 6+ inches off!
