vintageanchorbooks: “To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.” ―Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe was buried today in his hometown in Nigeria.

vintageanchorbooks:

“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
―Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was buried today in his hometown in Nigeria.

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  23 May 2013

notthedroidyouarelookingfor:

history meme || objects [1/8]: paint

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” (Plutarch)

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  23 May 2013
   
  22 May 2013
outofprintclothing: Remembering Langston Hughes, who died on this day in 1967.

outofprintclothing:

Remembering Langston Hughes, who died on this day in 1967.

   
  22 May 2013

heyyou22:

This is a poorly scanned version of a final project I did for my Literature of the Beat Generation class. It is a collage-style travel book of Part 1 of On The Road by Jack Kerouac. This was actually a really fun project to do, I haven’t collaged in a while and I used to do it a lot. I meant to do more but ran out of time because I procrastinated so much, but I am happy with the end result. 

This is super rad

   
  21 May 2013
   
  21 May 2013

therecklessandtherian:

have you ever stopped taking notice of a band for a while and then one day you decide to listen to them again and all your feelings cOME FLOODING BACK AND IT FEELS LLIKE TYOU’VE BEEN HIT BY A TRUCK OF EMOTIONS

#life story
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  21 May 2013
ifearimmelting: ONCE THERE WAS A HUSHPUPPY, AND SHE LIVED WITH HER DADDY IN THE BATHTUB

ifearimmelting:

ONCE THERE WAS A HUSHPUPPY, AND SHE LIVED WITH HER DADDY IN THE BATHTUB

#tries not to cry #cries a lot
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  21 May 2013
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Tonight my friends and I drove across the bay. I had never gone over the bay before, only under. It was late enough for the moon to be pretty high but early enough for the sky to be the most spectacular shade of blueish purple. It was foggy and we couldn’t see the land on either side. It was like driving over the ocean. It was like being on anther planet. Just us and the huge full moon hanging in the sky like some sparkling ripe fruit, and its reflection splashed enormous across the water. It was truly one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a long long time.

   
  23 May 2013
shesonlylittle: One of my best boys is graduating this Sunday and so I made him a handy thing to use whenever people ask “And what do you plan on doing with that?” Which is still every other day of my life, even a year after getting my diploma.

shesonlylittle:

One of my best boys is graduating this Sunday and so I made him a handy thing to use whenever people ask “And what do you plan on doing with that?” Which is still every other day of my life, even a year after getting my diploma.

#number one most useful chart for my life #i might get printouts #make business cards #hand them out to assholes
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  22 May 2013
❝

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Georges Bataille (via likeafieldmouse)

   
  22 May 2013
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  22 May 2013

Being from San Diego, I think people (myself included) expect that when I start to miss my home, it’s stuff like the beach and the weather and balboa park. And I do find myself missing that stuff sometimes. But mostly when I feel homesick, I’m missing the shitty weird stuff about the neighborhood where I grew up, like strip malls and my favorite coffee shops and random freeway off ramps that feel familiar because I would take them home or to work so often. I guess the things that make a place important to you are rarely the things that end up in the tourist pamphlets. No concierge is going to recommend the Einstein bagels down the street from my high school to someone looking for something cool to do in San Diego. The thing that makes those places matter to me is that I lived in them. And I guess in that sense it doesn’t matter how objectively average they are. Nostalgia is not always glamorous.

   
  21 May 2013
   
  21 May 2013
   Don't Fence Me In Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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llama-tastic:

Don’t Fence Me In- Bing Crosby and The And Andrews Sisters

   
  21 May 2013
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