these united states by the motto
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+ subject matter may change without notice. + megan larson, oakland ca. +
3 years ago
because ice fishing wasn't crazy enough...
some people surf lake superior…in the wintertime
By noon, a foot of snow was on the road, flakes blowing sideways in winds gusting up to 45 miles an hour. But a dozen surfers were suited up and in the water, paddling out with their heads down, over waves and into a whiteout, disappearing into an abyss.
3 years ago
"[Breast] pumps can be handy; they’re also a handy way to avoid privately agonizing and publicly unpalatable questions: is it the mother, or her milk, that matters more to the baby?"
- jill lepore, writing about breast-feeding and the surrounding industry/culture, in “baby food”
+ the new yorker +
+ the new yorker +
3 years ago
8 weeks of packed lunches
still-viable new year’s resolutions plus a faltering economy make this list of (mostly vegetarian) lunch ideas particularly timely & convenient. i’m hard-pressed to buy my weekday lunch for under $7 these days (and that’s leaving aside the separate issue of the morning iced latte), so i think i may give a few of these delicious-sounding meals a try.
3 years ago
"A gasoline tax would do more for American prosperity and strength than any other measure Obama could propose."
3 years ago
Mad Men season two
Vampire Weekend
President-Elect Barack Obama
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
Milk
Tomales Bay oysters
Neal Stephenson, Anathem
The Mountain Goats at the Fillmore
home-grown tomatoes
Once
plus, i forgot a very worthy #11:
3 years ago
"An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke."
- f. scott fitzgerald
3 years ago
readymade asks five artists to reimagine the populist poster art of the (first) great depression
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3 years ago
