too sweet to die

malformalady: Playing the banjo until their fingers bled

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:29:13 -0400

malformalady:

Playing the banjo until their fingers bled

wanderingnewyork: #Buildings in #Greenpoint #Brooklyn...

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:39:11 -0400

wanderingnewyork:

#Buildings in #Greenpoint #Brooklyn #New_York_City #NYC

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:22:34 -0400

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos:

A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s critics have made for years that his officers rely on race in their immigration enforcement.

Snow also ruled Arpaio’s deputies unreasonably prolonged the detentions of people who were pulled over.

Here is my best look of surprise.

Tornado Relief for Undocumented Oklahomans

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:12:12 -0400

Tornado Relief for Undocumented Oklahomans:

i-manface:

Please help the undocumented families of our community who are affected by this week’s tornadoes throughout Oklahoma! They can’t access federal relief funds. Donate if you can or signal boost this!

thalo-magazine: Drawings created during lifetime in mental...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:27:17 -0400

thalo-magazine:

Drawings created during lifetime in mental asylum become hit in outsider art world

Local artist, known as the Driftwood Messiah, dies at 67

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:21:03 -0400

Local artist, known as the Driftwood Messiah, dies at 67:

I never met Johnny Rice, but he sounded like a character:

Johnny claimed to have fished as a child with Ernest Hemingway, said he once saw a live mermaid and told a tale about falling into a marsh while drunk and waking up next to a large, cranky alligator that spoke to him.

He also told of falling off of a gambling ship 30 miles off Key West and making his way back to shore by riding the Gulf Stream for many hours.

“They’d reported me as dead in the newspapers,” he said in January. “It was God who saved me. I never would have been able to swim all that distance by myself.”

Grover said telling “embellished” tales was something all three brothers did.

“We loved to tell stories, especially Johnny and I,” Grover said. “But then, our sister would show up and tell the truth about what happened, and totally ruin our stories. We learned not to tell them when she was around.”

Florida woman scratches crude image onto stranger’s car

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:40:59 -0400

Florida woman scratches crude image onto stranger’s car :

Armed with a key, Natasha Myers scratched a rendering of male genitalia onto the hood of the silver Kia. She then went to the customer service desk inside the supermarket and asked for a Post-it note. Security cameras captured her writing something on the paper and then returning to the parking lot.

Myers left the following note on the windshield:

“Hey I keyed your car. You didn’t stop for pedestrians as is law. Since no cop to enforce a ticket, this should cover the cost of your fine. Have a good day. P.S. Don’t be a d—-.”

HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WOMAN’S DEFENSE FUND?

sandstep: Chimp’s photos of Moscow could earn serious cash at...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:51:23 -0400

sandstep:

Chimp’s photos of Moscow could earn serious cash at Sotheby’s auction - NY Daily News

Mikki the chimp, trained by Komar and Melamid, also known for their Most Wanted/Least Wanted Paintings and Songs.

johndarnielle: The thing is, you know, I get how you might be...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:47:25 -0400

johndarnielle:

The thing is, you know, I get how you might be turned-off enough by the overpowering presence of Christianity in western culture to not wanna listen to gospel. I do. But then after I get that, then I don’t get it again, because then I’m listening to gospel, and, like…I’ve ignored a few asks on how to write songs, because I hardly know what to say, and everybody’s path is different, there’s no rules. But for real? I got where I got to lyrically by listening to songs whose lyrics were as rhetorically seamless as this one, and playing them for myself in the privacy of my room, and writing and rewriting the lyrics in notebooks to look at the phrases and see how they worked (and writing hopelessly pretentious little essays in the same notebooks where I described what I saw in the workings of the phrases) and then asking myself whether it were possible to tell more personal, less cosmically-absolute stories in similar terms. To tell stories of no consequence at all in comparably vast, comparable hermit terms. Naturally I’m not on this level yet, at all, but seriously. “When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white?/Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?/Do you rest each moment in the crucified?/Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?” I don’t care if your devotion to Satan is so total that you have his name written in ten-foot-high Helvetica on the side of your house as it is on mine, that right there is how you write a song lyric.

Are You Washed In The Blood Of The Lamb - The Louvin Brothers (by O’Neil Beckford)

oldflorida: Florida fiction by Timothy Brace, 1939. (Broward...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:39:04 -0400

oldflorida:

Florida fiction by Timothy Brace, 1939.

(Broward County Library Sun, Sand & Suspense Collection)

kittenbento: untodeath: class-struggle-anarchism: I feel a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:29:01 -0400

kittenbento:

untodeath:

class-struggle-anarchism:

I feel a deep shared identity with anyone who’s thinking of hacking up Dawkins right now

What could it be?

what the fuck is up with this dude

"The average reader is pleased to observe anybody’s wooden leg being stolen."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:26:07 -0400

“The average reader is pleased to observe anybody’s wooden leg being stolen.”

- Flannery O’Connor, with what continues to strike me as an incredibly succinct and useful piece of plot advice. (via mttbll) That entire essay (“Writing Short Stories,” collected in Mystery and Manners), is the most refreshing tonic. (via sarahwrotethat)

holysoul: The Soul Stirrers End Of My Journey

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:10 -0400

holysoul:

The Soul Stirrers End Of My Journey

Via Found Objects.

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:00 -0400

Via Found Objects.

Pulitzer!

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:36:44 -0400

Pulitzer!

Despite the fact that Fat Tony has lived in this city almost his entire life, he doesn’t come off...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400

Despite the fact that Fat Tony has lived in this city almost his entire life, he doesn’t come off like a Houston rapper. Houston hip-hop returns again and again to a few familiar tropes: candy paint (an automobile’s flashy custom paint job), lean (a beverage that contains a mixture of promethazine, codeine, and soda), and grills (jewelry worn over teeth).

You don’t say.

webuiltthiscity: “Troubled Relationship” is now a card category...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:33:01 -0400

webuiltthiscity:

“Troubled Relationship” is now a card category at Walgreen’s, which is great because that’s the sort of situation that is usually best handled via greeting card.

punkbloc: D. Boon, Minutemen

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:13 -0400

punkbloc:

D. Boon, Minutemen

jockohomo: Cleveland, Ohio 1984

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:20:37 -0400

jockohomo:

Cleveland, Ohio 1984

When your enemy has a bad haircut but thinks it's a good one you both win.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:00 -0400