Mike Rhoads

"I like stuff and things"

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:41:45 -0400

“I like stuff and things”

- Mel, from down the street

"It ended with a chair."

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:41:13 -0400

“It ended with a chair.”

- Juno (via bubblepuff15)

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Thu, 31 May 2012 19:34:29 -0400

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storyboard: Cooking Their Way Through Magazine History To the...

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:49 -0400

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Cooking Their Way Through Magazine History

To the food world, Gourmet magazine was an almost-religious institution. Indeed, it was the epitome of über cooking, of fine dining, of the true epicurean, for almost 70 years. And although it was forced to close its pages for good in late 2009, the Gourmet legacy continues. With The Way We Ate, Noah Fecks and Paul Wagtouicz, professional photographers in New York City, are cooking (and eating, and photographing) their way through all 815 issues, a few recipes at a time. At this rate, it’ll take them 15 years, but who’s counting.

— Sky Dylan-Robbins

storyboard: Aziz is Bored, But Not Boring His hip-hop loving...

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:41 -0400

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Aziz is Bored, But Not Boring

His hip-hop loving alter-ego has spawned a dog lookalike tumblr and at least one food blog. But Aziz Ansari, the man behind Tom Haverford on NBC’s Parks and Rec, has enough fans in his own right that even the president competes with him.

So, Obama recently bragged at a fundraiser that he’s got more Twitter followers than you. What was it like to get a shout-out from the president?

It was crazy. I still don’t think I’ve processed how crazy it was that I got to meet him. He was just very cool and relaxed and charming.

And are you guys still competing? For Twitter followers?

I think he’s got a little bit of an unfair advantage because he’s the president of the United States.

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guernicamag: I’ve tried everything, including begging the...

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:23 -0400

guernicamag:

I’ve tried everything, including begging the Chinese regime, begging the same group of people who put me in this position, who hold my parents hostage, who continue to persecute dissidents in China. And then these attempts didn’t succeed.

Dissident Wuer Kaixi talks about fellow activist Chen Guangcheng, his own attempt to return to China, and his continued hope for “counter-talk” with the regime that exiled him.

Inwards, Drifting: Before Sunrises

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:10 -0400

Inwards, Drifting: Before Sunrises:

charles-is-dead:

Mornings before sunrises
When the sparrow flies without Clouds intercepting small wings

Stillnesses before sunrises
With a pale blue sky’s mirror image
Reflected in your eye

Walking up hills before sunrises
As your pupils spin madly strange
And beautiful in the light

Losing sleep before…

books0977: Rembrandt’s Mother Reading (c. 1629). Rembrandt...

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:04 -0400

books0977:

Rembrandt’s Mother Reading (c. 1629). Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch painter and engraver, 1606-1669). Wilton House, Wiltshire, England.

“Of all the Baroque masters, it was Rembrandt who evolved the most revolutionary technique and who seemed to grow into the Italians’ spiritual heir. By the middle of the 1630s he had long since abandoned conventional Dutch smoothness and his surfaces were already caked with more paint than was strictly necessary to present an illusion.”

accutanebitch: my new therapy audiobook is intense.

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:31:41 -0400

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accutanebitch:

my new therapy audiobook is intense.

theatlanticvideo: Games Beyond the Game: The 100 Greatest...

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:07:02 -0400

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Games Beyond the Game: The 100 Greatest Quotes in ‘The Wire’

As the critically acclaimed HBO series approaches its 10th birthday, celebrate with a montage of the best lines (warning: includes spoilers). This edit was put together by YouTube user hh1edits.