Spoke is hosting Bad Dads: the Wes Anderson-inspired exhibit, and the preview over at Flavorwire is nothing short of exquisite.  I’m partial to the Life Aquatic pieces.

Above: I desperately desire this schematic of the Belafonte.  I fear the house is just no home without it…

Below the Belafonte: A salty portrait of Stevesy, and a terrarium-esque take on Life.

Flavorwire.

OHMIGOD HE FOUND MY TUMBLR.
(Buzzfeed/Mother Jones)

OHMIGOD HE FOUND MY TUMBLR.

(Buzzfeed/Mother Jones)


President Barack Obama criticises Republican silence on booing of gay soldier. (x)

President Barack Obama criticises Republican silence on booing of gay soldier. (x)

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Tags: YES

buzzfeed:

As BuzzFeed, we intend to beat the drum in celebration of the return of Arrested Development as much as possible…
[Arrested Development: Then & Now]
[The 10 Best Minor Arrested Development Characters Of All Time]
[Arrested Development’s George Michael As Charlie Brown]
[Arrested Development RECREATED WITH LEGOS From Look What I Found]
[The Complete Set Of Arrested Development Paper Dolls]
[Bluth Family Coat Of Arms]
[3 Arrested Development Quizzes To Celebrate The Bluth Family’s Return]
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[The Best Of Arrested Development Fan Art]
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

(via booklover)

"I mean, has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare. And booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay. That’s not reflective of who we are."

-Barack Obama, on Sunday.

(Related: I rejoiced —rejoiced— when the DADT repeal was finally enacted last week.  Now to kill DOMA and secure benefits for all military partners.  Why is this so hard?  Oh yeah, it’s because we live in a society where Rick Perry thinks he deserves to be president [and, frighteningly, other functioning adult humans actually do too].)

(Source: motherjones)

Topanga Lawrence: A woman ahead of her time.
Also: TOPANGELAAAAA!
Via machineriesofjoy.

Topanga Lawrence: A woman ahead of her time.

Also: TOPANGELAAAAA!

Via machineriesofjoy.

(via literarynerd)

Tags: topanga

Reasons that I do not fall into this street:

(Love / if you like and i like,for the reason that i / hate people and lean out of this window is love,love / and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason / that i do not fall into this street is love.”  —e.e. cummings, from “you being in love”)

  • Love, of course, but also (in no particular order):
  • Books and paper ephemera
  • Trees and other vegetation
  • Housecats, specifically those that live in my house
  • Mixing paint, preparing a canvas
  • Old things in new lives
  • When one of my students “gets it”
  • Handsome penmanship
  • Not being as new as I used be
  • Participating in history
  • Interests that are truly inexhaustible

Tags: love

"Dress shields, armed guard at breastwork, a hard mail covering. Brazen privates, testing their mettle. Bolder soldiers make advances, breasting hills. Whose armor is brassier."

Harryette Mullen, from Trimmings

I discovered today

that our tiny cat’s jaws unhinge like a snake’s, allowing her to carry, and ultimately consume, items many times her body weight.  A roll of toilet paper, for example.

Walking my classes to and from the computer lab today could best be described as herding those hairless kittens.

That is: I’m quite certain I lost a few and it was frustrating yet weirdly cute.