the child grows enormous but never grows up

"During the American Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic recorded 5,547 cases of nostalgia,..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:59:04 -0500

“During the American Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic recorded 5,547 cases of nostalgia, seventy-four of which proved fatal.”

iconoclassic: Walter Bosshart Illustration (by sandiv999)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:28:02 -0500

iconoclassic:

Walter Bosshart Illustration (by sandiv999)

houghtonlib: Certificate of marriage of Theodore Roosevelt and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:26:32 -0500

houghtonlib:

Certificate of marriage of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice H. Lee; Newton, 14 Oct 1880.

MS Am 1541.9 (119)

Houghton Library, Harvard University

booooooom: Maybe the best comic I’ve ever seen. More from Joan...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:01:17 -0500

booooooom:

Maybe the best comic I’ve ever seen. More from Joan Cornella here.

schomburgcenter: Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:53:16 -0500

schomburgcenter:

Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it was not enforced in the state of Texas due to a lack of Union troop presence and enforcement in the confederate state.

However on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger and his regiment entered Galveston, Texas to override the resistance to the law and to enforce the Executive Orders. Union Major-General Gordon Granger read General Orders, No.3 to the people of Galveston. It stated:

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

Since 1865 black Americans have regarded June 19th as the official emancipation day, and on January 1, 1980, the state of Texas proclaimed June 19 an official state holiday thanks to the African American state legislator Al Edwards.

mwfrost: From William Stout’s Legends of the Blues.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:13:22 -0500

mwfrost:

From William Stout’s Legends of the Blues.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:12:33 -0500

"I just wish that we could talk about books as if they are for use, not as symbols of enduring..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:26:27 -0500

“I just wish that we could talk about books as if they are for use, not as symbols of enduring knowledge that must be preserved against the ravages of digital barbarians or as emblems of obdurate and blinkered resistance to inevitable change.”

- Throwing the Books at Each Other | Inside Higher Ed (via infoneer-pulse)

doodleattack: hey, kids, it’s another page!i hope you all...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:34:30 -0500

doodleattack:

hey, kids, it’s another page!

i hope you all appreciate how much work it’s going to take to finish all 30,000 of these pages*. some of you may even still be alive** when it’s all completed.

are you wondering what’s going to happen on the next page?

me, too!

*there is no guarantee that there will 30,000 pages.

**nor can i guarantee that any of you will be alive to see it completed.

bradofarrell: Norm Macdonald’s moth joke.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:33:36 -0500

bradofarrell:

Norm Macdonald’s moth joke.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:33:05 -0500

jameschororos: Shooting from the train

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:32:32 -0500

jameschororos:

Shooting from the train

midcenturymoderndesign: Paul Rand 1957

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:32:29 -0500

midcenturymoderndesign:

Paul Rand 1957

benjlevy: I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:31:17 -0500

benjlevy:

I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:23:59 -0500

brightwalldarkroom: Wes Anderson’s original, black & white,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:39:58 -0500

brightwalldarkroom:

Wes Anderson’s original, black & white, 13 minute version of Bottle Rocket.

Anderson’s short film, which he shot in 1992 and distributed two years later, was originally set to star ”real” and established actors but, due to budget issues, the main roles were given to co-screenwriter Owen Wilson and his brother Luke, neither of whom had ever appeared in a film before.

Things worked out okay.

Two years later, with help from early Anderson fan and supporter, James L. Brooks, Bottle Rocket was reworked, reshot, and released as Wes Anderson’s first feature film.

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Related: A Speculative Wes Anderson Filmography (2014-2065)

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:02 -0500

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:36 -0500

“Why be wise when stupidity was so readily available.”

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:24 -0500

“Why be wise when stupidity was so readily available.”

"I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:53:18 -0500

“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I’m starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it’s my own choices that’ll lock me in, it seems unavoidable—if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.”

- David Foster Wallace (via maxistentialist)