April 2011
34 posts
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ~Nolan Bushnell
Just a few days ago I mentioned to Matt that I needed to leave a pen and paper in the bathroom for my ideas I get in the shower, because sometimes I forget what the idea was by the time I dry off and get dressed.
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Writing at the Kitchen Table | Manifesto →
“Imagine five survivors are on a lifeboat. Because of limits of size, the boat...”
– via: Futility Closet
I say if there is 4 normal adult human beings, one of them is probably an asshole. Chunk him over and keep the dog.
“I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Me too. (via ilyagerner)
OH from a friend in Doctor's office waiting room...
Man: I don't know what's worst, settin' here or in court..
Woman: Court, hunny, cause there you gone for 30 days.
{a minute later}
Man: Is all them Beatles dead? I seen a album by them what sold fer over a hunnert dollars on that TV on a antique show.
Woman: Paul ain't day-ud. He shore is purdy.
WOTD 4.13.11 | Wendy-ism of the Day →
Watchlatenightjimmy:
Today is Friday, and here’s Stephen Colbert performing Rebecca Black’s “Friday” with Jimmy & The Roots, and tons of other special guests. FUN FUN FUN FUN.
Abigail Adams in a letter to her son, John Quincy Adams (as paraphrased by David McCullough, the historian): “You have had all the advantages. There isn’t a book that you wanted that you haven’t been provided. You’ve gotten to know some of the most interesting minds of our time. You have traveled; you have learned languages. How inexcusable it would be in you if you were to...
April Rain Song
by Langston Hughes
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night—
And I love the rain.
Watchtrainwreckradio:
this is just too cool not to share - 3 eggs in the nest getting ready to hatch
located in Decorah, IA just over the border from MN
Decorah Bald Eagles Raptor Resource Project
Vanity Fair: The Book of Joel →
Brilliant.
vanityfair:
Yesterday Billy Joel and his publisher, HarperCollins, announced that singer’s memoir, Book of Joel, will not be released. Though the book has already been written, according to the Associated Press, Joel is no longer “interested in talking about the past.” VF Daily intercepted and read the…
