Cracker Jack Prize

• 2012-05-09

  From Dana

  Source: inkbomb

• 2012-05-01

  

• 2012-04-24

  Famous Ab-Exer’s breathing.

  Heavily.

  Painters Panting (by whileseated)

  Source: youtube.com

• 2012-04-19

  Josephine Baker had a cheetah, and someone in NYC kept a pet kangaroo!

• 2012-04-10

  What really matters is:– 
  
  1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
  
  2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keepthem.
  
  3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
  
  4. In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
  
  5. Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
  
  Thanks for the photos. You and Aslan both look v. well. I hope you’ll like your new home.
  
  With love
  yours
  C.S. Lewis

• 2012-04-04

  firstdecade:

  Elvis Perkins “While You Were Sleeping” Ash Wednesday 2007

  Source: firstdecade

• 2012-03-27

  thenearsightedmonkey:

  “Bewildered” by Micky and Sylvia

  Source: thenearsightedmonkey

• 2012-03-16

  

  eriebasin:

  Early 1900s Ivory Saw Teether (sold)

  Take a look at the selection of teethers available on amazon (especially this one) and then consider that once upon a time, toddlers had finely carved ivory saws to chew on.  

  Source: eriebasin

• 2012-03-15

  I was late to work today because I decided to write down the poem I woke up with.

  There were no consequences.

  I am very privileged.

• 2012-03-07

  

  visualandcritical:

  from Autobiography of John Keats by John Keats

  (via dannyfloyd)

  Source: visualandcritical