We as a society really need to come together and reevaluate what sort of people we are allowing to write these I Can Read books for children.
Value of supermarket gift cards the City of Los Angeles gave out as part of a one-day gun buyback in December : $155,375
Harper’s Index for March 2013
The jellyfish: 95% water 100% self-important
What is a museum guard to do, I thought to myself; what, really, is a museum guard? On the one hand you are a member of a security force charged with protecting priceless materials from the crazed or kids or the slow erosive force of camera flashes; on the other hand you are a dweller among supposed triumphs of the spirit and if your position has any prestige it derives precisely from the belief that such triumphs could legitimately move a man to tears. There was a certain pathos in the indecision of the guards, guards who spend much of their lives in front of timeless paintings but are only ever asked what time is it, when does the museum close, dónde esta el baño.
Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“I feel like I’m at my grandmother’s”
Tom Waits being interviewed on an Australian talk show in 1979.
(via marycass)
“Oh don’t worry I grew up on skis”
If I had been a better guitar player I wouldn’t have been Keith Richards.
- a quote I made up
