Radonitsa: Eat, Pray, Drink
Feasting on graves, drunken singing, and prayers for the dead? It’s the Orthodox Day of Rejoicing!
WHEN I SEE ANOTHER TREND STORY ABOUT WOMEN AND WORK/LIFE BALANCE
#Realtalk: Work/life trend pieces and when journalistic heroes fall, literally
ooooh yes.
WHEN A WRITER USES THE WORD ‘MELLIFLUOUS’
Five types of problem writer, in GIFs, over at CJR.
Plus, just to show I’m self-aware, five types of problem editor, over at my personal site.
mmhm.
“I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.” - Lon Chaney
Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
(via labelleotero)
it’s like if Putin and Berlusca (yeah in Italy we call him like that) wanted to do a nice photo but then Medvedev pops out at the very last second and makes a weird-smile face
i really don’t think Berlusconi likes Dima. i think he only tolerates him bcs they’re both bros with Vova.
Temperance Beverages
The founding fathers of the United States encouraged the making and drinking of beer and ale as temperance beverages, preferable to hard liquor. To aid the establishment and growth of breweries in America, James Madison urged the first Congress to place a heavy tax on imported beer.
Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts, 1979.
(Source: cristania, via labelleotero)
can’t stop laughing at Gogol
(Source: razumikin)
Vladislav Surkov reciting Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”
Another poem :D
omg surkov why do you have such an awesome voice?
forever reblog
