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It’s the only way to travel.

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Barbara Kruger’s never really talked about Supreme, the skate company who’s been ripping off her ideas and prints letter for letter, color for color, for their red-and-white logo, which you have seen, because it is everywhere. 

I emailed her casually to ask her about this. And today, she got back to me, and gave a candid statement on the matter of Supreme for the first time, ever, really. By emailing me a blank email, with an attachment. Which you can see above.

#omggggggg #iconic

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It’s going to be the 30th anniversary of Matilda in October 2018 and Quentin Blake imagining Matilda today as the Chief Executive of the British Library, an astrophysicist, and (not shown here) a world traveller is <3

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REPOST @TinySnekComics - you know what’s cool?  VOTING THIS NOVEMBER!!! if you retweet anything today, make it is!!  

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#big mood

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#big mood

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on a saturday. 

nashville, tennessee

emily blincoe

february 2017

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#omggg #wouldn't it be nice

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I think he's fused with the radiator.

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Shout out to the Chome extension that replaces photos of Trump (and from articles about Trump) to pictures of kittens, and makes staying informed somewhat more bearable.

#it doesn't work perfectly on facebook links but it's getting better

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This may well be my favorite comma in all of literature. It’s not grammatically necessary; you might, if you were so inclined (I’m not), argue that it’s incorrect. But here it is, the last breath of the paragraph, and I like to think that it’s SJ’s way of saying, “This is your last chance to set this book down and go do something else, like work in your garden or go down the street for an ice cream cone. Because from this point on it’s just you, and me, and whatever it is that walks, and walks alone, in Hill House.” I don’t think that anyone’s going anywhere. Right?

Shirley Jackson’s Sublime First Graf in ‘Hill House’, Annotated

We asked Random House copy chief Ben Dreyer to annotate the eerily memorable and exceptionally well-constructed first paragraph of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, and it’s just marvelous.

(via katherinebarlow)

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it is a serious thing   just to be alive     on this fresh morning         in this broken world.

Mary Oliver, from “Invitation,” Red Bird: Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

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the other night i was walking across old city – the semimuseumized part of philadelphia that is home to independence hall and the liberty bell and other relics of and monuments to the revolution – and it was very cold and snowy and icy and quiet and i was already having a delirious moment about what it felt like to walk through this city that is no longer home and especially this part of this city that i have never lived in but feel attached to in the way you feel attached to things that symbolize where you’re from no matter how fraught those symbols are, this part of this city that is also saturated with history often poorly told and with what america feels like to me, my biggest america feelings (what a beautiful project so horribly unfinished; america is a tragedy is the feeling i have that is a strange kind of patriotism), having this delirious moment and then hanging behind the glass of the west-facing wall of the jewish history museum, lit softly from behind and just barely legible in the dark icy night, was a banner that read, in a combination of italic manuscript-imitation font and bold sharp sans-serif capitals, happily the government of the united states gives to bigotry no sanction and to persecution no assistance. the part i saw first was to persecution no assistance and my heart stuck in my throat; i read the rest and stopped walking for a moment, breath tight and on the point of tears. how beautiful but how false, how false, how false, how false (this strange patriotic sorrow). and then the quotation is ascribed to george washington. george washington, hero of the revolution and owner of slaves, said this about to bigotry no sanction. his specific reference was to freedom of religion; he was writing to a jewish leader of a congregation in rhode island. the words are, in fact, a reprise of the words of that jewish leader, a man named moses seixas of whom i had never heard until this moment, when i googled this quotation. people ask me sometimes what it is like to be american. this is the answer.

#patriotic sorrow

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