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  1. free-parking: An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

    free-parking:

    An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

    2 May, 2012
    Sourced from free-parking
    Originally from free-parking
    Reblogged from jipsterjluke
    Tagged as art literature China
    Notes (16499)

  2. German bar

    I had lost the last race big
    somebody had stolen my coat
    I could feel the flu coming on
    and my tires were
    low. I went in to get a 
    beer at the German bar
    but the waitress was having a fit
    her heart strangled by disappointment
    grief and loss.
    women get troubled all at once,
    you know. I left a tip
    and got out.

    nobody wins.
    ask Caesar.

    25 April, 2012
    Tagged as art charles bukowski literature poetry thanks to http://jjarichardson.tumblr.com/
    Notes (8)

  3. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

    —Ernest Hemingway, from A Moveable Feast (via petitchou)

    16 April, 2012
    Sourced from petitchou
    Originally from petitchou
    Reblogged from buongiorno
    Tagged as ernest hemingway literature joy joy joy
    Notes (98)

  4. thecomposites: Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth…a conscientious expression…Slenderly, languidly…an expression of unthoughtful sadness…her cheeks flushed…she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society…a bright ecstatic smile…Aching, grieving beauty…the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair… For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery…Girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder. (Multiple suggestions) Um. Yeah. … She’s just as beautiful as I always imagined…

    thecomposites:

    Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth…a conscientious expression…Slenderly, languidly…an expression of unthoughtful sadness…her cheeks flushed…she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society…a bright ecstatic smile…Aching, grieving beauty…the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair… For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery…Girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder. (Multiple suggestions)

    Um. Yeah.

    … She’s just as beautiful as I always imagined…

    16 February, 2012
    Sourced from thecomposites
    Reblogged from thecomposites
    Tagged as F. Scott Fitzgerald literature art The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan
    Notes (236)
  5. bookmania: Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon) This is, without a doubt, one of the most magical places in Boston. If you visit me, I will take you here. We will peruse old books and be merry. It will be wonderful. bookmania: Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon) This is, without a doubt, one of the most magical places in Boston. If you visit me, I will take you here. We will peruse old books and be merry. It will be wonderful.

    bookmania:

    Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon)

    This is, without a doubt, one of the most magical places in Boston.

    If you visit me, I will take you here. We will peruse old books and be merry. It will be wonderful.

    31 January, 2012
    Sourced from bookmania
    Originally from bookmania
    Reblogged from theatlantic
    Tagged as Boston books literature
    Notes (1236)

  6. areasofmyexpertise:

    “YEAH, THE DERANGED MILLIONAIRE”

    WHICH IS THE SHORT FILM by Tom Scharpling,

    AND FEATURES MUSIC by They Might Be Giants,

    AND IN WHICH I TELL YOU about my book of FINAL WORLD KNOWLEDGE and visit with all my famous friends

    IS NOW AVAILABLE WITHOUT COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION via YouTube. 

    That is all. 

    Ever since he thrust that fateful bottle of Jeppson’s Malört in my trembling hands at the Second City in Chicago… I’ve known John Hodgman was my guardian angel. 

    The man can do no wrong.

    13 January, 2012
    Sourced from areasofmyexpertise
    Reblogged from areasofmyexpertise
    Tagged as John Hodgman comedy video literature Jeppson's Malört
    Notes (102)

  7. Ha! Lil brother wins the internet for today.

    Ha!

    Lil brother wins the internet for today.

    8 November, 2011
    Sourced from kellydown
    Reblogged from kellydown
    Tagged as comics literature ernest hemingway
    Notes (16)

  8. prostheticknowledge:

    Internet Story by Adam Butcher

    Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” retold through Google, A YouTube account of an angry douchebag, and Flash:

    Internet Story 9min, 2010
    A fast-paced and experimental film told through fragments of internet videos, animations, blogs and news articles.

    A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across country.

    Is this real?

    O_O

    This can’t be real.

    I do not believe this to be real.

    Still worth checking out.

    11 October, 2011
    Sourced from adam-butcher.co.uk
    Reblogged from prostheticknowledge
    Tagged as internet Caucer literature mystery video
    Notes (26)

  9. Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evildoers.

    —Franz Kafka 

    26 August, 2011
    Sourced from willcrabb
    Originally from willcrabb
    Reblogged from absurdlakefront
    Tagged as Kafka literature
    Notes (142)

  10. tra-la-la: Available on Nov 15, 2011 i’m not super familiar with Miranda July but i’ve heard really good things. trying to get a group together to go watch The Future this week.

    tra-la-la:

    Available on Nov 15, 2011

    i’m not super familiar with Miranda July but i’ve heard really good things.

    trying to get a group together to go watch The Future this week.

    16 August, 2011
    Sourced from tra-la-la
    Reblogged from tra-la-la
    Tagged as Miranda July It Chooses You literature
    Notes (40)
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