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September 23, 2013

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer...



“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

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Published on September 23, 2013 17:26

All the kids (and the French and the German and the Japanese...



All the kids (and the French and the German and the Japanese kids) are saying it. Could be worse I guess. Could be “ratchet”

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Published on September 23, 2013 17:15

September 19, 2013

denisebefore:

Sidewalk Card Game, Brooklyn
eisenstaedt  1943



denisebefore:



Sidewalk Card Game, Brooklyn


eisenstaedt  1943


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Published on September 19, 2013 17:14

Real street art. Picasso in Greenwich Village NYC. ‘Bust...





Real street art. Picasso in Greenwich Village NYC. ‘Bust of Sylvette’

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Published on September 19, 2013 17:11

September 17, 2013

It is true, they do always leave





It is true, they do always leave

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Published on September 17, 2013 19:00

housingworksbookstore:

Boners, by none other than Dr. Seuss!...



housingworksbookstore:



Boners, by none other than Dr. Seuss! Published in 1931, six years before his first children’s book, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. We have a 4th printing with a clipped jacket, $75. More about Boners on Buzzfeed, is a sentence I just typed.


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Published on September 17, 2013 16:35

September 16, 2013

evangelinewong:

I love maps

Map of the hipster migration. Or...



evangelinewong:



I love maps



Map of the hipster migration. Or map of everyday young folk setting off to be hipsters.

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Published on September 16, 2013 17:41

Someone’s hungry To Be Heard



Someone’s hungry To Be Heard

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Published on September 16, 2013 17:27

September 14, 2013

“It’s funny how when a fiction writer gets accused of making...




“It’s funny how when a fiction writer gets accused of making things up off the page, as if they expect them to defy their own nature.”


Delbert Peach. From the novel To Be Heard: A story about Williamsburg Brooklyn

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Published on September 14, 2013 16:54

September 12, 2013

artprimo:

#dominosugar plant on the shores of the #eastriver in...



artprimo:



#dominosugar plant on the shores of the #eastriver in #brooklyn. #adek #extinguisher #savedomino #williamsburg #artprimo


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Published on September 12, 2013 17:03