David Foster Wallace was like, Art must be sincere! We must use every tool in the linguistic toolbox to cut through sentiment and dishonest cliche and build fresh ways to reveal the power and reality of unironized emotion.
And Mister Rogers was like, Basically the same thing, but without any shame or pretense or fear of sincerity.
life:
Happy Mother’s Day!
Shirley MacLaine and her daughter, Sachi Parker, in 1959. See more photos here.
(Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Forever Reblog.
WASHINGTON—Calling the last four days of American life just…I mean, talk about a goddamned punch in the gut, citizens across the nation confirmed today that, Jesus, this week.
This fucking week, sources added.
Christ.
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I am not a prejudiced person…I have built Habitat homes for colored people.
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County Commissioner Jim Gile of Saline County, Kansas, apologizing for using the term “n*gger-rigging.” Gile said he meant “jury-rigged.” In his apology, “Gile said he also has a close friend whom he regards as a sister who is black,” the Salina Journal reported. “‘I don’t ever do anything bad and don’t know how to do anything bad. People know I am not,’ he said.” (via officialssay) |
Bitches Love Khaki
First Woman: Oh my goodness. I have to ask, where did you get your pants?
Second Woman: J. Jill, I think.
First Woman: Of course! They are just the most unique shade of ecru I have ever seen!
He despised phonies, his 1969 Volvo (which he also loved), know-it-all Yankees, Southerners who used the words “veranda” and “porte cochere” to put on airs, eating grape leaves, Law and Order (all franchises), cats, and Martha Stewart. In reverse order. He particularly hated Day Light Saving Time, which he referred to as The Devil’s Time. It is not lost on his family that he died the very day that he would have had to spring his clock forward. This can only be viewed as his final protest.
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Today we celebrate the life of Harry Weathersby Stamps of Long Beach, I hope that my obituary will be at least half as awesome as this fella’s. |
I make art. I can’t help it. That’s what I do. All the time. I have to make art, or I’ll die. I’m like a shark. In a beret.
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Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”This is amazing.
So a GIF set made me cry. NO BIGGIE.
