This is from “Pictures from the Sky” which is worth a look. This is the abandoned city near Chernobyl.
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I am a person, based in Portland, Oregon.
I am a person, based in Portland, Oregon.
“ When we launched, we launched with over a million titles. There were countless snags. One of my friends figured out that you could order a negative quantity of books. And we would credit your credit card and then, I guess, wait for you to deliver the books to us. We fixed that one very quickly.
Jeff Bezos in a recent Vanity Fair article about the early days of the web.
That’s right, amazon.com allowed a negative quantity of books at one point. We’re all allowed our mistakes.
(via strelau)
THE (CODED) MORAL OF A (TRUE) STORY
“did you see me back him up against the wall? huh? did you see me pick him up w/one hand? i could have killed him. did you see his little cartoon character? honestly i could have killed that little twerp. Did you see me lift him up like that? man, what a wuss.”
i’ve been awake for just over twenty-five minutes now. i have no faith in wednesday anymore. please, deliver me back to my bed.
I often had magical experiences similar to this one when I lived in San Francisco.
One involved a whore walking home at daybreak yelling and crying to herself (beautiful), a woman rolling out of a car in the Mission and having a seizure (her companion in panic), a bloody fight in the Mission Burger King (a river of blood), and lastly while walking home pleasantly buzzed on the first day of a new year someone tried to mug me and I simply pushed them out of the way and continued to walk into the sunrise energized and tired from the night.
(via Heading East)
This photo makes Mars seem like a real place to me like no other photo I’ve seen.
Clinton Supporter Thrown Out of Rules Committee Meeting
Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits
Q: Most interesting recording you own?
A: It’s a mysteriously beautiful recording from, I am told, Robbie Robertson’s label. It’s of crickets. That’s right, crickets, the first time I heard it… I swore I was listening to the Vienna Boys Choir, or the Mormon Tabernacle choir. It has a four-part harmony it is a swaying choral panorama. Then a voice comes in on the tape and says, “What you are listening to is the sound of crickets. The only thing that has been manipulated is that they slowed down the tape.” No effects have been added of any kind except that they changed the speed of the tape. The sound is so haunting. I played it for Charlie Musselwhite and he looked at me as if I pulled a Leprechaun out of my pocket.
NPR: Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits
“We get a lot of promotional press releases from labels and normally don’t run a word of them. They are, after all, promotional and full of an often comical amount of untethered praise for an artist. But when Anti records sent us this interview Tom Waits did with himself, we had to pass it along.”
Often coined as being juiced or juiced up amongst those who use the drugs, some say “steroids are as American as Apple Pie.” (via When Bodybuilding and Steroids Go Too Far - Life in the Fast Lane)
