“He has that rare spinal appreciation for beauty in the ordinary that nature seems to bestow on those who have no native words for what they see.” — Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“Totally lineless untroubled foreheads like cream cheese or ironed sheets.” — Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Incredibly Detailed Styrofoam Cup Art Found in Car Dealership Waiting Room
“…Recovery is about Progress Not Perfection.” — Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
“In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time.”
*suffragists
suggragettes was a term coined by the media to belittle the feminist movement and turn these women into “ettes”, feminine, docile and powerless.
(Source: fat-grrrl-activism, via therearesparkles)
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“It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars.
She’s lived in my memory for sixty years.
Death steals everything except our stories.”
— Jim Harrison (via nickmiller)
“He feels about the ritualistic daily Please and Thank You prayers rather like a hitter that’s on a hitting streak and doesn’t change his jock or socks or pre-game routine for as long as he’s on the streak.” — Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984
It kills me that I didn’t get to witness this.
DINOSAUR IN THE SKYYYYYY
I CAN FLY TWICE AS HIIIIIIGH
TAKE A LOOK
IT’S ON A HOOK
A FLYING DINO
IT GOT BETTER
(via the-little-werewolf-oven)
“Note: the inbreath is willed, the outbreath is automatic.” — Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
NEW WORK: Ginger Blossom Braids
for El May
(via theonlymagicleftisart)
“
History is a discipline of aggregate bias. A history may emphasize social events, or cultural or political or economic or scientific or military or agricultural or artistic or philosophical. It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects,
but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one.
” — Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
One of my friends got chased by little piggies during his bike ride
this is the opposite of a problem