May 2011
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It T-Shirt Tuesday, Yo.
[via all the mountains]
If you don’t love life you can’t enjoy an oyster; there is a shock...
– The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark
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This Very Excellent Lime Candy
In the field test, the gimlet made from it is a thing so completely different from your concept of this drink that it might create for you, as it has for me, a recurring sense memory that nags you if you don’t have a batch made. The medicinal rigor of the gin against the agrodolce tang of the cordial is a thing for which Unesco needs to create a new category of world heritage.
As for its...
From McSweeney's Cellar of Fine Vintage Lines
LIT 101 CLASS IN THREE LINES OR LESS
by Ben Joseph
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
Paradise Lost
ADAM: Paradise has arbitrary dietary restrictions?
DEVIL: They’re really more like...
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Sunday Classics, Lucas Edition
The whole thing ends with a pool full of baby albino crocodiles. Of course it...
– from The New Yorker’s review of “Cave of Dorgotten Dreams”, the latest documentary from Werner Herzog.
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It T-shirt Tuesday, Yo
David Shrigley for Imperfect Articles
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Sunday Classics, Aretha Edition
“The Weight” - Aretha Franklin