January 2010
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“But he found that a traveller’s life is one that includes much pain amidst...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 first edition)
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Jan 28th
seriously though
this is not okay
Jan 28th
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“Dude, fuck, fuck, motherfuck, fuck the weather. I’m skipping my 9:00...”
– Mike
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
kiss my ass
I bought a boat I’m going out to sea
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“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in...”
– Virginia Woolf, “Street-Haunting” (1927)
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“We should be born at the age of seventy and totter gracefully down into youth.”
– Djuna Barnes, ‘Greenwich Village As It Is’ (192-)
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“To have to tell the truth about a place immediately puts that place on its...”
– Djuna Barnes, ‘Greenwich Village As It Is’ (192-)
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Things I am not doing again:
nomoreundead: That. See also: Things Meat Loaf Won’t Do for Love
Jan 24th
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“Most of us know, but often forget, that handwriting is not natural. We are not...”
– A Brief History of Handwriting
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America
“The purportedly glitchy grammar in the charges against the pair alleges that they “did engage, offer and agree” to acts of prostitution with an undercover officer at Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street in July 2008.” (NY Post, “Lap dancers on trial for prostitution charges argue prosecutors used poor grammar that should set them...
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How to ride every CTA El route in one day →
fuckkyeahchicago: In answer to Jesus’s question (isn’t he supposed to be answering ours?), it would 10 hours and 53 minutes to ride every line on the El end to end. At least using the route these four did. submitted by mugwumpian L. Not El. L. I have never been on the Skokie Swift. Or the Orange Line. I won’t lie, it’s a goal.
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