Jul 5, 2009
Pianos seem to have been thrown around with frenzied violence—an observation that says as much about the popularity of pianos as it does about the strength of the shocks.
Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (255).
Jul 4, 2009

‘Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ by Joel Plaskett on Q TV

Maybe my favourite song from Three. Also, he’s playing here with Peter Elkas, and I love that they’re BFFs.

Jul 3, 2009
I only get frightened when, and it happens very rarely, I think I have an idea.
Robert Oppenheimer
Jul 3, 2009
Just a note: the Tour starts tomorrow, and my crush on Fabian Cancellara continues unabated. So that’s what my July looks like.
Jul 2, 2009
The planet very briefly shrugged.
Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (13).
Jul 1, 2009
Marechiaro, Italy—2000. © Paolo Pellegrin
Jul 1, 2009
No fireworks, no parade, but we have ribs on the barbecue.
Jul 1, 2009
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge in the cessation of time itself—the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent—all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
George Plimpton, Paper Lion (208)
Jun 28, 2009
Jun 28, 2009
Everything that we have has come from a suggestion by someone else…I am not ashamed of it, because the man who thinks he can place himself against the world’s evolution, against the combined knowledge of the word, it pretty poor stuff.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, discussing his work on Scientific Management at a conference at Dartmouth College, 1911.
Jun 28, 2009

patrickcassels:

The trailer for Ricky Gervais’ new movie, “The Invention Of Lying,” about a world in which everyone tells the truth. Remember the first time you got high with the funniest person you know? This is like that if your friend had a Peabody Award and Rob Lowe.

Not just Rob Lowe, but my platonic Rob Lowe ideal. The glasses, the hair, the suit—it’s all working for me.

Jun 27, 2009
you ought to read a book called Shop Management. It’s by an American engineer named F. W. Taylor; he can’t write for nuts. But he’s got something.
a letter from a fellow soldier to Lyndall Urwick.
Jun 27, 2009

moviesinframes:

The Goonies, 1985 (dir. Richard Donner)

By Followandreblog

I restrain myself from reblogging moviesinframes most days. But The Goonies, I’m sorry. Still one of a handful of movies that I will sit and watch whenever I find it on TV, no matter how far along it is, no matter how recently I watched it. (All the President’s Men is another. I know, weird.)

Jun 26, 2009

(via vanishingcity)

This is Torquil Campbell. What music looks like.

Jun 26, 2009

YouTube - Stars - Take Me To The Riot

Torq kills me in this video. That’s what music looks like.

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