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New technology, reclaimed materials and an enormous protective roof combine in this Hawkins home for irresistible modern rustic charm
- Reports: NBC to Murder Law & Ordervia TIME.com: Top Stories on 5/13/10Chung-chung! Is that a body? Reports came in from several news outlets late this afternoon that NBC is canceling the original series of Law & Order after 20 seasons
- Poetry in the Photos of Allen Ginsbergvia mental_floss Blog by Ransom Riggs on 5/13/10
Beat icon Allen Ginsberg wasn’t just a poet — he was a photographer, too, who took his camera on trips abroad and on trips around his own neighborhood in order to “fix the passing hands of time” once in a while. In doing so he created a whole portfolio of portraits of the now-famous members of his nakedhysterical generation, many of which have never been seen before and are featured in a new show at the National Gallery called “Beat Memories.” Here are some of my favorites, with Ginsberg’s handwritten captions transcribed into legible type:
Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel “Sunset” Cox, “The Letter-Carrier’s Friend” in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he’s making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.
Gregory Corso, his attic room 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur, wooden angel hung from wall right, window looked on courtyard and across Seine halfblock away to spires of St. Chapelle on Ile St. Louis. Gregory’s Gasoline was ready at City Lights, in attic he prepared “Marriage,” “Power,” “Army,” “Police,” “Hair” and “Bomb” for Happy Birthday of Death book. Henri Michaux visited, liked Corso’s “mad children of soda-caps” phrasing. Burroughs came from Tangier to live one flight below, shaping Naked Lunch manuscript, Peter Orlovsky and I had window on street two flights downstairs, room with two-burner gas stove, we ate together often, rent $30 a month. I’d begun Kaddish litany, Peter his “Frist Poem.”
Peter Orlovsky at James Joyce’s grave, Zurich Switzerland December 1980, we climbed up the cemetery and found Joyce’s statue snowcovered, brushed it off his head.
W. S. Burroughs at rest in the sideyard of his house looking at the sky, empty timeless Lawrence Kansas May 28, 1991. But “the car dates it” he noticed when he saw this snapshot.
I sat for decades at morning breakfast tea looking out my kitchen window, one day recognized my own world the familiar background, a giant wet brick-walled undersea Atlantis garden, waving ailanthus (“stinkweed”) “Trees of Heaven,” with chimney pots along Avenue A topped by Stuyvesant Town apartments’ upper floors two blocks distant on 14th Street, I focus’d on the raindrops along the clothesline. “Things are symbols of themselves,” said Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. New York City August 18, 1984
- 10 Funny Flowchartsvia mental_floss Blog by Miss Cellania on 5/13/10
There are many ways to tell a joke, and the internet makes it all the easier to construct and disseminate humor in graphic form. The flowchart is one form that many online wits have embraced. Every six months to a year or so, I find I’ve collected quite a few to pass along to you.
1. Tattoo Decision Flowchart
Should you get a tattoo? That’s a very personal decision that you may be living with for the rest of your life. Here’s the simple answer: if you need to consult this flowchart to make your final decision, then you haven’t put enough thought into it yet. This is only a portion of the full chart.
2. Mythbusters Formula for Success
You’ve probably figured out by now that Mythbusters is a hit show because they blow things up. How could it possibly miss with a formula like that?
3. Career Paths
You may remember Preston Boomer as the King of Boomeria. Here is the high school science teacher’s flowchart for career advancement, in which all roads lead to McDonalds. Enlarge the full version to see what happens along the way.
4. Career Paths Simplified
A somewhat more recent flowchart simplifies part of the same career path, although there is no evidence that Boomer’s flowchart influenced this one. If there were a connection between the two, we wouldn’t have to ponder the depressing implications of more than one person coming to the same conclusion independently. However, it isn’t always so. After I got my degree, I went to work at a KFC that didn’t even have a drive through!
5. NASCAR Safety Chart
It may appear that entertainment takes a back seat to safety in NASCAR racing, but that’s just show business. Cracked brought us this safety flowchart along with other “facts” about NASCAR racing.
6. Does Tiger Woods Owe You an Apology?
Back in February, when Tiger Woods and his personal transgressions were all over the news, Brokey McPoverty reminded us whose business it was, in handy flowchart form.
7. Am I a Horse?
I don’t know who originally drew this flowchart, but it’s so random that I had to include it.
8. Kinds of Drunks
Determine what kind of person you turn into when you’ve drunk too much alcohol with a flowchart from College Humor. If you are open to divulging such information, you can leave a comment to tell us your results.
9. Typeface Selection
On occasion, you might need to choose the perfect typeface to use on a particular project. Of course, there’s a flowchart for that! Here, you only see a small part of the chart, in which designer Julian Hansen managed to squeeze in a self-referential complimentary step. You can buy the full chart in poster form.
10. Zombie Apocalypse
Game Informer plotted out your dismal odds of surviving a zombie apocalypse with an extensive flowchart based on available information, that is, movies. Click to enlarge it here to follow your path (start in the middle). This chart is now available as a downloadable poster.
See more funny flowcharts in these other mental_floss posts:
Run Your Life with Flowcharts!
Fun with Flowcharts
7 Geeky Flowcharts
7 Brilliant and/or Baffling Flowcharts
7 Flowcharts for Fun - Chestnut Street: 1906via Shorpy Historic Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave on 5/12/10
Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. “Chestnut Street.” Continuing the chestnut theme. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- Link: Threadsy
- Sailing Tailors: 1896via Shorpy Historic Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave on 5/10/10
Aboard the U.S.S. New York circa 1896. “Ship’s tailor.” The dog is Nick. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- Link: I Wish I Worked There
word of the day: bajiggity.
really needed this weekend of family, massages, ufc, mexican food and playoffs.
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