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dreazil:

I want to do this. So bad.

This has been dominant reaction to this piece. We say go for it.

This is pretty cool! I’m not much of a traveller anymore but have done informal travel like this back in the 80’s.

11:41 am • 26 February 2012 • 110 notes

klg19:

Hully gee! Let’s all wish a happy happy birthday to the man who created comics in America as we know them, the great R.F. Outcault (14 January 1863-25 September 1928)!

Starting with Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895, he introduced The Yellow Kid, which became such a success that Hearst lured him to the New York Journal a year later, sparking imitators at his old job and lawsuits over title rights:

In 1902, he brought us Buster Brown and his glorious dog, the bull terrier Tige. Buster dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy but behaved like Peck’s Bad Boy, and Tige provided the Greek chorus:

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

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John Adams

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I have a serious love for John Adams. He was a cranky and brilliant man.

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12:05 am • 30 September 2011 • 176 notes

$thecomeandgo: The Atlantic | Map: The 12 States of America Since 1980, income inequality has fractured the nation. Click each icon to see each of the dozen states, which counties belong to them and how median income has changed over the last 30 years. The Atlantic Magazine has boiled our nation down into twelve distinctly unique types of places. From evangelical epicenters to Mormon outposts to military bastions to immigration nations. Follow the title link or click through to find out which category your county falls into. * The photo above is a freeze frame of a fully interactive map. Click through for interactive version.$

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Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Malibu Home

thesobermeerkat:

homeandinteriors:

Duuuuude!

That’s a lot of vacuuming and dusting.

5:46 pm • 6 August 2011 • 233 notes

welovecomicbooks:

Superman: Red Son Rising

What would the world be like if Superman had landed in Soviet Russia, rather than Smallville? The Man of Steel works as a defender of communism, facing off against an American made Bizzaro Superman, created by the USA’s greatest hero: Lex Luthor.

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I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.