"I never could stomach Adams..."
Hear Joshua Ferris read George Saunder’s “Adams”.
Hear Joshua Ferris read George Saunder’s “Adams”.

I drank a lot of whiskey, won tickets to the MIT Museum, and my date even let me take her virginity. What a great night at the Queer Prom.
PROM NIGHT
Duane Michals, Bar, 1963
Lisa Sanditz
Tie Dye Trees and Car Wash from the series Organized Living
2004

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
This high summer we love will pour its light
the fields grown rich and ragged in one strong moment
then before we’re ready will crash into autumn
with a violence we can’t accept
a bounty we can’t forgive
Night frost will strike when the noons are warm
the pumpkins wildly glowing the green tomatoes
straining huge on the vines
queen anne and blackened susan will straggle rusty
as the milkweed stakes her claim
she who will stand at last dark sticks barely rising
up through the snow her testament of continuation
We’ll dream of a longer summer
but this is the one we have:
I lay my sunburnt hand
on your table: this is the time we haveYour Native Land, Your Life
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To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum and heat of the day, a phantom moon, already high. At dusk, memory. And at Midnight? Oh, then the enigma of time itself; of a day that will never come again passing into history while we sleep.
(Source: heartmindawakening, via cynicismbedamned)
Jo Ann Kemmerling reading a book while taking bath, New York.
Nina Leen, 1954.
(via print-thing)
(via Alternative Lolita Covers - Entertainment - ShortList Magazine)
“Use Me” by Bill Withers, Fiona Apple cover.
Turtle Wax Day at the London Zoo c.1946
(via rrosehobart)
I had a cat named Snowball…
She died!
She died!
Mom said she was sleeping…
She lied!
She lied!
Why oh why is my cat dead?
Couldn’t that Chrysler hit me instead?
Guys, this is seriously cool. (Slightly motion sickness-inducing, but seriously cool).
-KC
(Source: thecontrollersphere)
This is me on the fabulous lesbiansbeforetheywerelesbians.tumblr.com.
wnyc:
(via Original ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Illustrations, 1952 | Retronaut)
Radient —A.P.