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collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

richard pevear & larissa volkhonsky, translators of tolstoy & dostoevsky. i just really enjoy this photograph (it's on the back flap of the dust jacket in my copy of war & peace). they just look so damn contented.

post some others...

collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

(correction: Volokhonsky)

collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6357/pdaddyjetskibigbnu8.jpg

A B C, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

haha can't argue with that last one

collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

these two:

http://www.barakobamain08.com/obama-bumpercars.jpg

cool ranch dressing (get bent), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2308477661_b987e9e067.jpg?v=0

she should look better if she's gonna be a bitch like that (sunny successor), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://epicurious.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/24/joey_chestnut_krystal_burger_2.jpg

she should look better if she's gonna be a bitch like that (sunny successor), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:02 (seventeen years ago)

being president does not sound like how to live, no offense to barry

Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

fine, replace with choomgang.jpg

cool ranch dressing (get bent), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.turnofthecrank.com/wtf/cool_photography/76730cecilia11122551lojt2.jpg

dat dude delmar (and what), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/images/2007/12/14/george_clooney_03.jpg

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.fineartblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/party-girls.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.dharma-haven.org/khyentse+trungpa.jpg

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BO0KN2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

she should look better if she's gonna be a bitch like that (sunny successor), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

lol irl gay too

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://blog.silive.com/weather/2008/06/Astronaut-From-Apollo-11-Mission-1-1024x768.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://physics.uoregon.edu/%7Ejimbrau/astr123/Notes/ch26/Einstein_on_Bike.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/25/article-1080636-023AEDFF000005DC-479_468x374.jpg

sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.798photogallery.cn/uploads/photo/a26rb5jcO11209009229.jpg

WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.natalivineyards.com/images/vineyard_row_actress.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.climbing.com/exclusive/features/warren-harding.jpg

^^^^^^ WARREN BATSO HARDING, O.G.

hyperspace situation (gbx), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.natalivineyards.com/images/vineyard_row_actress.jpg

^^^ would plow all this fields

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.bobedwardsradio.com/storage/rickyjay.jpg

s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:41 (seventeen years ago)

hamster_on_a_piano.jpg

hyperspace situation (gbx), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:43 (seventeen years ago)

it's a youtube not a jpg

s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://lifeinfocus.ucp.googlepages.com/Cat_chair_small.jpg

most important concept of all -- THE CONCEPT OF LOVE (donna rouge), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

this is a picture thread, SLOCKI

hyperspace situation (gbx), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

more like SUCKY

hyperspace situation (gbx), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.freelayouticons.com/graphics/1172133198-ballin.gif

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/11/dining/11john.600.jpg

R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died on Oct. 4, 2006 in Washington. He was 71.

gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://grantthorpe.typepad.com/life_coach_and_business_m/images/2007/07/24/dalai_lama.gif

gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/520481273_dd632fb63b_o.jpg

TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.catfacts.org/cat-picture-full.jpg

gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:09 (seventeen years ago)

bunch of jackasses and pussies around here

the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

and apples

s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

and lamas

gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/passion2sail/Issac.jpg

she should look better if she's gonna be a bitch like that (sunny successor), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.bagelsound.com/lj/llama-chute.jpg

^^has figured out how to live imo

WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

lolma

the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:23 (seventeen years ago)

warren harding: what a pirate.

collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://celebstyle.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rock-of-love-heather.jpg

Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/60/l_8854c0e847214547964b2071363ba445.jpg

DavidM, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/pix/walters_jessica_cp_.jpg

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g304/gcnardi/Film/lubitsch/trouble3.jpg

collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

^^^

afin d’y être sublime sans interruption (Michael White), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

dont think i could give up color

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_3583.jpg

mizzell, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/style/corn-kid-tariq-tiktok.html
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/09/21/fashion/21CORN-KID4/21CORN-KID4-superJumbo.jpg

“Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:50 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

I guess Rod had a bit of extra time on his hands

ROD STEWART has a model train set based on an industrial US city which took him & two friends 26yrs to build.

Sex Drugs & Rock ‘N Roll(ing Stock) pic.twitter.com/8fjiNi9Qj2

— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) October 5, 2022

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:18 (three years ago)

Ok, I know nothing about Rod Stewart, but that's really damn impressive.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561

peace, man, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 23:04 (three years ago)

Neil Young is big into that stuff as well

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 23:31 (three years ago)

two months pass...

Tove & Tuulikki

https://i.redd.it/s3bcz125lh651.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:40 (three years ago)

awwwwwwww

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 December 2022 04:15 (three years ago)

The perfect new job announcement photo doesn't exis-https://t.co/lnkwLYZnvD

— Sara Mauskopf (@sm) January 6, 2023

jaymc, Saturday, 7 January 2023 02:34 (three years ago)

love those Tove & Tuulikki photos so much <3

scanner darkly, Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:24 (three years ago)

They seem to have got it made. Judging by Google Maps Klovharun is a tiny bit of rock miles from anywhere. The house still exists. This is sad:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26529309

"In 1964, Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila built a simple house on Klovharu, without running water or electricity, which they could escape to in the summer months, and work without interruption.

It was there in 1970 that Jansson began writing her final Moomin book, Moominvalley in November, a melancholy story reflecting the author's grief after the death of her mother. It features a new character, Toft, which Jansson based on herself. When Toft arrives at the usually busy Moominhouse, there's no-one there."

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/e5/a0/48e5a0d9322a1903422bcf2ebb0a3e01.jpg

Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 7 January 2023 11:44 (three years ago)

Which reminds me - if you Google Hildur Guðnadóttir, a tonne of publicity photos were taken in a studio that she uses. At first I thought it was her house, but it's actually one of those quasi-home studios along the lines of Hotel2Tango etc. Nonetheless it looks like a life goal:
https://headphonecommute.com/app/uploads/2021/06/by-viktor3-1048x699.jpg
https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1edbdeaac93c6aaa91618709f04271d36fd0-1024x658-1024x658.jpg

In fact she literally seems to live inside the Ikea catalogue, which makes me wonder if she is computer-generated as well:
https://www.friendsoffriends.com/home-stories/string-theory-hildur-gudnadottir-reimagines-instruments-and-lets-the-robots-play/

Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 7 January 2023 11:49 (three years ago)

adam gopnick can check on that for you

“Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 January 2023 14:02 (three years ago)

Aside from everything else great about those images, I very much want her blanket.

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 7 January 2023 17:13 (three years ago)

For fans of Tove, this is well worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StO-NmkK5Aw

Andy the Grasshopper, Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:07 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/VdQo1zPRhT

— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) February 2, 2023

mark s, Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:23 (three years ago)

three months pass...

What gym is this and why am I not a member?? pic.twitter.com/cSKA9si04Y

— Jillian Michaels (@JillianMichaels) December 11, 2014

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 25 May 2023 23:24 (two years ago)

Me in 5 years

calstars, Thursday, 25 May 2023 23:49 (two years ago)

doing a four ounce curl

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 26 May 2023 00:34 (two years ago)

Somebody say Dickel?

calstars, Friday, 26 May 2023 00:45 (two years ago)

three months pass...

goddamit

brimstead, Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:29 (two years ago)

maybe it's for the best

budo jeru, Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:53 (two years ago)

six months pass...

88 year old Johnny Mathis looking like he’s back in town to settle an old score. pic.twitter.com/G9rvJr6Cef

— Richard Harland Smith (@RHarlandSmith) March 30, 2024

mookieproof, Saturday, 30 March 2024 18:54 (one year ago)

one month passes...

profile of rick steves in wapo today made me think of this thread. affable stoner dad

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:42 (one year ago)

although i saw this too, gives me pause

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI-OzedboAAAjzO?format=jpg&name=900x900

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:45 (one year ago)

five months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/c1EPUNh.jpeg

StanM, Friday, 4 October 2024 05:44 (one year ago)

three months pass...

post reads:

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 11 January 2025 03:54 (one year ago)

love it

corrs unplugged, Saturday, 11 January 2025 09:59 (one year ago)

that's awesome

budo jeru, Saturday, 11 January 2025 14:03 (one year ago)

two months pass...

A call of a man taking a shower and lighting candles in the Dollar Tree bathroom at 16114 Lakewood Blvd.

— Los Angeles Scanner (@LosAngeles_Scan) March 13, 2025

the way out of (Eazy), Thursday, 13 March 2025 03:38 (eleven months ago)

Michael Meacher MP

Environment Minister Michael Meacher (C) is followed back to shore by two women while being watched by a protester in a shark suit after swimming at Blackpool Beach during the Labour Party's annual conference (2002) pic.twitter.com/dyCi1llYe3

— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) March 23, 2025

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 24 March 2025 09:51 (eleven months ago)

one month passes...

Joan Didion's white Corvette Stingray

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Didion1.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 April 2025 20:51 (ten months ago)

Joan Didion is one of the best-photographed authors there's ever been. The rounds of pieces about the new book have been accompanied by some incredible shots.

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 28 April 2025 11:21 (nine months ago)

that pic sends me

budo jeru, Monday, 28 April 2025 15:10 (nine months ago)

I think that car was yellow, like the one Tuesday Weld drives in the film Play It as It Lays.

Josefa, Monday, 28 April 2025 15:16 (nine months ago)

my second grade elementary school teacher, mrs quinn, drove a yellow mazda rx-7 to school every day. i once got to help her load groceries into the hatchback.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 April 2025 16:31 (nine months ago)

that photo is very Bryn Mawr meets Hollywood and has a love child

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 28 April 2025 17:27 (nine months ago)

which part of it is bryn mawr?

budo jeru, Monday, 28 April 2025 17:36 (nine months ago)

everything from the eyebrows up

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 28 April 2025 17:37 (nine months ago)

correction: the stingray was indeed bright california yellow (never seen a color photo of it), and is the very same car used in the aforementioned film

After her husband died, Didion traded it in on a Volvo station wagon

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 28 April 2025 19:39 (nine months ago)

Joan Didion is one of the best-photographed authors there's ever been

https://pshares.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/5973843772_df6570141a_b-e1515039699683.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 28 April 2025 23:25 (nine months ago)

six months pass...

https://preview.redd.it/lee-pace-colman-domingo-emilia-jones-edgar-wright-and-glen-v0-47f6712envzf1.jpeg

better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:04 (three months ago)

https://preview.redd.it/lee-pace-colman-domingo-emilia-jones-edgar-wright-and-glen-v0-47f6712envzf1.jpeg?width=1023&auto=webp&s=8cf12fbc66931a51df8ac1c93c0dda2effa78303

better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:04 (three months ago)

This makes me want to commence my flowy robe years, but being about a foot shorter than Lee Pace unfortunately makes that a non-starter.

whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:40 (three months ago)

do it anyway imo

budo jeru, Saturday, 8 November 2025 20:47 (three months ago)

two months pass...

strays a bit from the usual mien of this thread but we have an ilxor who seems to have figured out how to live imo

i will say that i hit news exhaustion about halfway through trump's first term and ever since i've been consuming less and less news. now i'm basically not consuming any news at all beyond catching downstream waves from people's insta stories (that i quickly skip if they're trump/politics) and finding myself inevitably clicking on politics threads here now and again. i quit twitter/x years ago. i never check news sites. i filter out posts from the local paper or local news orgs i see on fb. maybe it's related to the smaller amount of news i see now, but i just can't read anything from any "news institution" and not choke on the self-regard and the obvious drama bait pov. nytimes copy is basically unreadable to me now. i saw some sponsored post facebook showed me from ap news the other day that was something like "it's possible to not have a purpose in your life and still be happy :)" and was like jesus christ i don't miss this kind of bullshit.

so yeah, i have absolutely no regrets. i feel like as a college educated man i was fed this idea that to not look at news was some kind of grave sin. i see that idea repeated from friends now and internally i'm just like "what absolute horseshit". it's just a total lie. i'm so much happier focused on things that actually matter. my life in front of me and the people irl i encounter daily. the present moment and the time and space that i occupy. i've seen enough of the world to know that empires run on blood and tragedy occurs every day. repeating that knowledge just doesn't serve me at all anymore. obviously different people have different tolerance levels when it comes to the news but i want to give a big smile and sparkling expression to anyone who may be thinking "do i really need to look at the washington post any more?" no. no, you don't. and it's very likely you'll be happier for it. there is a lot out there that is actually a good thing and virtuous to be ignorant of, to avoid completely, imho. it might have been quite different before the internet but those old adages about "staying informed" just don't track any more afaict.

― map, Wednesday, February 4, 2026 5:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 6 February 2026 01:01 (two weeks ago)

i used to live like that for years, can definitely understand the appeal

now i'm back to reading two weekly papers (on paper that is)

internet journalism doesn't appeal but i do like following events of the world

but these are thoughts for another thread, i know

corrs unplugged, Friday, 6 February 2026 11:52 (two weeks ago)

Me
Pre covid = map
Post covid = cant look away
Trump now = scared to look away
Future = wanna be more like map

bert newtown, Friday, 6 February 2026 12:16 (two weeks ago)

At that point i'll post pictures

bert newtown, Friday, 6 February 2026 12:18 (two weeks ago)


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