1. 18 Jun


    stephenharred: You can totally rest a bowl of pasta on a pit bull’s head. Science!

    stephenharred:

    You can totally rest a bowl of pasta on a pit bull’s head.

    Science!

     

  2. 18 Jun



    Umbrella

    Once, back in my bookstore days of yore, I worked with a metalhead.  We had a beat-up old CD player that we’d use while we were sorting books, and the rule was generally whoever cared enough to put on music got to pick it.  We were pretty non-confrontational about that sort of thing.  My coworker brought in CD after CD of metal.  I’m not a fan, but it wasn’t bad to work to, so we worked to it.  One day, he brought in a mix CD he’d made.

    It was “Umbrella” by Rihanna.  Every single track, the same song.  No remixes.  Just ‘ella, ‘ella, ‘ella, ‘ella.

    We listened to it.  For weeks.

    ‘Ella, ‘ella, ‘ella.

     

  3. 18 Jun



    I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

     

  4. 18 Jun



    when a single no-context GIF is insufficient

    tiffanyb:

    At first I’m like

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    But then I swing to 

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    because, really: 

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    I need to get to

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    But right now I’m at

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    Tiffany has created a beautiful thing.

     

  5. 18 Jun


    chrishaley:

    “Normal view.”

    No one ever gets it when I say this.

    I LOVE THIS REFERENCE.

     
     

  6. 18 Jun


    beatonna:

    There’s something wonderful about Marvin Bileck’s minimal illustrations for All About the Stars.  

     

  7. 18 Jun


    Nearly 8 years ago, Adam and I stood/sat/lounged around in line at the Borders Books in Bailey’s Crossroads, VA, waiting hours to have our copies of Anansi Boys signed by the author.  We managed somehow to be near the end of the very long line (Neil invited the folks with kids to the front, and I remember thinking that was so damn classy), just ahead of the first two cosplayers I’d ever seen.  They were Delirium and Destiny.  They would occasionally switch props, Destiny holding a brightly-colored fish aloft while Delirium shouldered the impressive burden of the Cosmic Log and its chains.  Adam was the one who introduced me to Neil Gaiman in the first place, and the whole experience was made all the more poignant when we realized that Gaiman had dedicated the book to us, the fans. My birthday is next week, and my gift from Adam (the top book in the photo) arrived today, just ahead of the signed copy I’d ordered for myself.  I’ll return one, because even though The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a smaller book, I don’t have room for two.  For now, for today, I’m wrapped up in the perfection of those two books, Neil Gaiman, my friend Adam, and me.

    Nearly 8 years ago, Adam and I stood/sat/lounged around in line at the Borders Books in Bailey’s Crossroads, VA, waiting hours to have our copies of Anansi Boys signed by the author.  We managed somehow to be near the end of the very long line (Neil invited the folks with kids to the front, and I remember thinking that was so damn classy), just ahead of the first two cosplayers I’d ever seen.  They were Delirium and Destiny.  They would occasionally switch props, Destiny holding a brightly-colored fish aloft while Delirium shouldered the impressive burden of the Cosmic Log and its chains.  Adam was the one who introduced me to Neil Gaiman in the first place, and the whole experience was made all the more poignant when we realized that Gaiman had dedicated the book to us, the fans.

    My birthday is next week, and my gift from Adam (the top book in the photo) arrived today, just ahead of the signed copy I’d ordered for myself.  I’ll return one, because even though The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a smaller book, I don’t have room for two.  For now, for today, I’m wrapped up in the perfection of those two books, Neil Gaiman, my friend Adam, and me.

     

  8. 18 Jun


    ourvaluedcustomers: To his friend…

    ourvaluedcustomers:

    To his friend…

    (via afgurri)

     

  9. 18 Jun


    scarygoround: Pleased to announce that I am the new writer/artist on Incredible Hulk. Here’s the first page of my first issue. I’ve quacked things up a notch as you can see. This will probably be the basis of the next big Marvel movie too.

    scarygoround:

    Pleased to announce that I am the new writer/artist on Incredible Hulk. Here’s the first page of my first issue. I’ve quacked things up a notch as you can see. This will probably be the basis of the next big Marvel movie too.

     

  10. 18 Jun



    High heels can be a pain in the feet - The Washington Post

    tiffanyb:

    But ladies, don’t forget: If you aren’t wearing them, you “aren’t making an effort.”

    Also it is incredibly odd to go from being one height to briefly being another.  Seeing the world from a different height than usual is weeeeeird.