Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

bookriot: A poetry skirt and a Bukowski onesie for your beatnik...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:12:58 -0500

A poetry skirt and a Bukowski onesie for your beatnik baby are just two of the delights in today’s installment of Book Fetish.

good lord that skirt. that’s it, I am learning embroidery and I’m doing that all summer long. look for a lot of circle skirts with titus andronicus quotes.

I shall see you soon, my lovely.

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:12 -0500

I shall see you soon, my lovely.

Person: hey have you read any good books lately?

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:21 -0500

Person: hey have you read any good books lately?
Me: are you ready for this conversation

catversushuman: This will be a mini-series, I think. Well,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:52:40 -0500

catversushuman:

This will be a mini-series, I think. Well, depending on how the story progresses.

more!

continuants: neverwrongtolove: Remember these for later ♥ Omg...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:39:44 -0500

continuants:

neverwrongtolove:

Remember these for later ♥

Omg porcupine cactus otp

nevver: Graduate yep.

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:33:07 -0500

nevver:

Graduate

yep.

FPDCC_00_01_0006_040, Forest Preserve District of Cook County...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:43 -0500

FPDCC_00_01_0006_040, Forest Preserve District of Cook County Records, University of Illinois at Chicago Library

A PATRON DOUBTS I CAN FIND WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:26 -0500

librarianproblems:

Except most of the time they don’t because looking for stuff in archives is haaaaarrd

Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:10:41 -0500

thingsidontunderstandand:

Knocked it.

Tried it.

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:09:22 -0500

edm-life-or-die: Walk into the library like whatup i got a...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:26:42 -0500

edm-life-or-die:

Walk into the library like whatup i got a weird cock

ratkingxvx: bebroom: Beautifel i feel this

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:19:26 -0500

ratkingxvx:

bebroom:

Beautifel

i feel this

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:15:37 -0500

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

I might have a problem.

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:48:24 -0500

I might have a problem.

openbookstore: So this a pretty nifty old cookbook! It’s even niftier than you’d guess at first...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:47:26 -0500

openbookstore:

So this a pretty nifty old cookbook! It’s even niftier than you’d guess at first glance, though. It harbors a secret.

Look closely! What do you see? Drawings by an Andrew Warhol??

It’s true, though! Who knew Andy Warhol did cookbook illustrations?

whoa!!!!

laughingsquid: How to Make a Playable Record Using a Laser...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:34:27 -0500

laughingsquid:

How to Make a Playable Record Using a Laser Cutter

gasp!

thesignaturething: Yo, I heard you like libraries, so I put a...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:58:55 -0500

thesignaturething:

Yo, I heard you like libraries, so I put a library in your library!

I want to know all the answers to this. Immediately.

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:00 -0500

I want to know all the answers to this. Immediately.

buzzfeed: Hello! In case you guys didn’t know, I am 110%...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:52:19 -0500

buzzfeed:

Hello!

In case you guys didn’t know, I am 110% down with this sloth trend.

So I’ve been listening to this song on repeat and thinking...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:56 -0500

So I’ve been listening to this song on repeat and thinking about it in the context of this being a “war album.” At least according to a recent band interview, and in that vein it makes me think of Baader and Meinhof or Bonnie and Clyde.

Also what the fuck? I’ve been trying to figure out the name of this phenomenon for ages and it turns out it’s the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. (http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/). Guys, my friday just got real weird real fast.

(Also I don’t really remember that Baader and Meinhof were romantically involved with each other, but I watched that movie at a very weird time with this guy I *wanted* to be romantically involved in and my feelings are all confused and my memory is fuzzy. Those are the best kinds of memories. I’m more thinking about this song in relation to them in terms of being militant and arrogant enough to think you are invincible because of your cause [be that love or whatever].)