tiffy sees in color, not in black and white

You gotta know that River, Amy, and Rory traveled again (for pleasure) with River’s vortex manipulator.

(This is what happens when I find a long-lost “project” in my personal folder at work. I waste an hour of my morning… ON GOOD THINGS.)

thatfrenchman:

thrueyesofarunner:

brookebutler:

map of austin.

Highly accurate. Even down to the detail of where the sexy people jog—I saw Aimee Teegarden running there once.

Brings back memories of my first year here, living in the South Dallas portion of Austin. Never again.

Also, LOLPERFECT depiction of the entirety of 6th street. I sometimes get too close to that “hipster/crack-head” border. 

ROTFLPromotionalkittenbasket!! This is my town and i love it, and it’s where i grew up, except the map doesn’t go down past William Cannon (where it stops being cute hipster kids and turns into cranky old guys wearing socks with sandals and wearing trucker hats unironically)

(Source: amberdemure)

fuckyeahtattoos:

civillyunioned:

Report Rick Perry’s new video as promoting hatred or violence based on sexual orientation.  Instructions are above and please share around.

Let’s let him know this kind of crap isn’t acceptable in 2011. http://youtu.be/0PAJNntoRgA

bbook:

entertainmentweekly:

Despite Kate Winslet’s fiery, braless feats of heroism in real life, there will be no Dragon Tattoo-esque poster for her upcoming film Carnage. That said, the one-sheet is intent on showing off the film’s assets: The greatest assembly of Oscar-caliber actors of 2011′s holiday season. Only three Oscar winners on your team, J. Edgar? Suck it. Just two for you, Iron Lady? Too bad, so sad. Carnage has four Oscar winners in Kate Winstlet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and director Roman Polanski — not to mention 2003 nominee John C. Reilly. To quote another Broadway show-turned-film, “If you got it, flaunt  it.”

Okay, yes.

I would be more impressed if the Photoshop wasn’t appallingly awful. :( (AKA Dear JCR, what’s up with your right hand??)

verybusyandimportant:

baileythebookworm:

nessfraserloves:

librarianpirate:

verybusyandimportant:

This is the single most important thing I’ve ever babbled about on the internet.

My incredible partner Tanner is opening a book store here in Chicago. This is their dream, and what we’ve dedicated the last 7 months of our lives to work towards. He quit his job, he sold the proverbial farm, and we are ready to open Uncharted Books very soon—

but not without help from our friends and our communities. 

Tanner has launched a Kickstarter and we are looking for people to invest to help turn the perfect location in the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood from

into a haven for writers, readers, and nerds without refuge.

I know times are tough, I am acutely and personally aware of this fact, so please know that your investment means the world to me and to Tanner and to our future.  Your investment, also, is just that: an investment.  It comes with a reward.  Things like lifetime discounts, free books, swag, and invitations to our investor-only preview party.

Please check out our kickstarter page at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945935286/uncharted-books to see all of the cool rewards and read more about the store Tanner is trying to build.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to read this and please, please, reblog.

Oh, this is exciting!

Signal boost because I know so many of you LOVE books (as do I) and also supporting independent businesses.

Backed, because bookstores are fucking awesome. 

I’m feeling all of the feelings, folks.

Pretty incredibly, in less than 24 hours, we’ve raised 27% of our fundraising goal.  It’s a testament to our incredible friends, the communities that have embraced us, the generosity of total strangers, and Superchunk retweeting our Kickstarter link (!!).  My heart is spilling with gratitude, I’m completely humbled and in awe of the amazing people that demonstrated their faith in local business.

But, even still, neither of us were able to sleep last night…

$2,704 feels really good right now, that is not something to undermine in anyway.  However, the reality is that if we don’t hit $10k before 11:03am on November 18th, Uncharted gets nothing. 

No money. 

Zero. 

Zilch. 

Kickstarter only charges backers after a fundraising goal is reached.  Without continued support, Tanner will be right on top of the slated opening date without means to immediately fund the community based projects at the heart of the store and, potentially, not enough money to fully compensate the local contractors, artists, and wood workers involved in the project.

Please help us build on yesterday’s momentum, and build on today’s momentum tomorrow.  Help Tanner’s dream come to fruition.  Help what will, you know, some day be my family.  Help what has come to be, and will forever be, my family.  \

More importantly: Support local business.  Support local business that supports local craftsmen and its community.  Help this space become something other than a 3 1/2 years vacant eye sore in the heart of our neighborhood— let it become a place for people to share their stories.

 

visit the kickstarter here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945935286/uncharted-books

become one of our backers.

get backer rewards.

change lives- ours, your neighbors, your community’s, yours.

Words will never do justice in describing my gratitude here.

xo,

rachel

Signal boost, plus $25. I can do $25.

yggdrasilly:

Second Right Past Mars by *sailorptah

This is fabulous. I’ve been saying Miss Frizzle was a Time Lady but THIS. THANK YOU, ARTIST.

thedailywhat:

Passive-Aggressive Note of the Day: Borders locked up the last of its brick-and-mortar bookstores last Sunday. The above list of gripes — reportedly posted at one of many out-of-business outlets — claims to speak for all Borders employees.

A transcript follows, courtesy of EW’s Shelf Life:

• We hate when a book becomes popular simply because it was turned into a movie.

• It confused us when we were asked where the non-fiction section is.

• Nicholas Sparks is not a good writer … if you like him, fine, but facts are facts.

• We greatly dislike the phrase “Quick question.” It’s never true. And everyone seems to have one.

• Your summer reading list was our summer reading NIGHTMARE. Also, it’s called summer reading, not three days before school starts reading.

• It’s true that we lean to the left and think Glenn Beck is an idiot.

• We always knew when you were intently reading Better Homes and Gardens, it was really a hidden Playboy.

• Most of the time when you returned books you read them already — and we were onto you.

• Limit One Coupon did not mean one for every member of your family — this angered us. Also, we did know what coupons were out.

• It never bothered us when you threatened to shop at Barnes & Noble. We’d rather you do if you’re putting up a stink.

• “I was just here last week and saw this book there” meant nothing to us. The store changed once a week.

• When you walked in and immediately said, “I’m looking for a book,” what you really meant to say is, “I would like you to find me a book.” You never looked. It’s fine, it’s our job — but let’s be correct about what’s really happening here.

• If you don’t know the author, title, or genre, but you do know the color of the cover, we don’t either. How it was our fault that we couldn’t find it we’ll never understand.

• We were never a daycare. Letting your children run free and destroy our section destroyed a piece of our souls.

• Oprah was not the “final say” on what is awesome. We really didn’t care what was on her show or what her latest book club book was. Really.

• When you returned your SAT books, we knew you used them. We thought it wasn’t fair — seeing that we are not a library.

[shelflife / fark.]

MIA, by Ryan McGinley, 2010

“We had to basically rig a truss for this swing; it was a major production to make sure it was safe. I tried it out. MIA might have gotten there and said, ‘I’m not doing this; this is too crazy.’ But she got on and just started swinging like it was something normal. I remember her ­saying, ‘If I’m going to go out, this is an awesome way to go.’”

(Source: Guardian)