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afp-photo:GAZA CITY : A doctor holds the new born baby...

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GAZA CITY: A doctor holds the new born baby boy of Palestinian mother Hanaa al-Zanen, 26, who had her baby conceived with sperm from her husband smuggled out of an Israeli prison, at a hospital in Gaza City on January 11, 2013. The boy is the son of Palestinian prisoner Tamer al-Zanen (portrait), who has been incarcerated in an Israeli jail for the past seven years. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS

What is meant by the phrase, “Fuck authority.”

"A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited."

““A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.””

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John Hollander (via theparisreview)

Or sometimes like a not so secret houseguest sprawled eternally on your couch in unwashed underpants, running up your cable bill with on demand porn, drinking all your beer, and assuring you it’ll only be for a few more days.

Note to the Universe: When I impulse buy an item like a Clay...

Note to the Universe: When I impulse buy an item like a Clay Adams single button lab counter off of Ebay, I would prefer that I not find disturbingly relevant words inexplicably scrawled upon said object’s underside.

SKINNER

How A Hollywood Stuntwoman Survived Her Brain Tumor

How A Hollywood Stuntwoman Survived Her Brain Tumor:

Jill Browns 2013 New Year’s Resolutions 1. Learn a foreign language. 2. Travel and explore. Florida doesn’t count. 3. Chill the F out. Be more patient. 4. Follow my dreams, even if it’s challenging. Break the golden handcuffs. 5. Eat cleaner. Häagen-Dazs being the exception.

Jill Brown and I have been running into each other at the same pool party for several years. But it took her having a brain tumor for me to find out that she’s a writer...

arcaneimages:I’ve been think a lot about my mom a lot today so...

arcaneimages:

I’ve been think a lot about my mom a lot today so I thought I’d post a few thoughts. Looking back, I am amazed how much she had to deal with just me. I was a tad bit of a spaz, a terrible student and really kind of a loner as a kid but she went out of her way to help guide me.

She bought me my first Super 8 camera, my first jar of foam latex, my first bass and my first typewriter.

When I saw the Brady Bunch kids make a volcano I decided to do the same, except I used flash-powder an...

Literal.Photo by David A. via theeastsiderLA.

Literal.

Photo by David A. via theeastsiderLA.

The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014

The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014:

The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014

"That doesn't make Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon any better
than Google -- Facebook in particular, oh my God -- but it's the first
time that these new titans of American industry have really looked
genuinely ugly. Just, nasty. Because they're rich and powerful, but
they're also narcs. They're creeps and snoops. They're police
informants."

mares-nest-x:Illustrations, A-4These feel as though they...

mares-nest-x:

Illustrations, A-4

These feel as though they must be illustrations for a storybook. For some reason they suggest to me an especially grim and surrealistically Russian version ofIt’s a Wonderful Life.

"Make a character want something — that’s how you begin."

“Make a character want something — that’s how you begin.”

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Wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut (via explore-blog)

Hard to argue with uncle Kurt.

Best to just do as he says.

The secretive inventor of the laugh track machine

The secretive inventor of the laugh track machine:

jkottke:

Working for CBS and later on his own in the 40s and 50s, sound engineer Charley Douglass perfected the laugh track technique, which was then called sweetening. His secret weapon was the laff box, a machine that you could use like a typewriter to produce the type and sequence of laughter you…

While the laugh track is easily the most insufferable single aspect of a form of entertainment that I find generally insufferable as a whole, I ce...