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Need to store some ugliness in your bookcase? Why not put some canvas shades over the messy areas? Cut canvas to fit, leaving enough room to hem three edges and leave a 1-inch rod pocket. Thread rod pocket with short tension rod and insert. Messy covered! (via Feathering Your Nest: Organizing with Shelves and Bookcases)
Love this simplicity. My overflowing book shelves wouldn’t tolerate this treatment, but perhaps that is just a call to prune the poor overgrown things.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Robert J. Hanlon (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
I think this is my current Parenting motto, sad, but true.
libraryland:oldbookillustrations:
Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes.
From The Ship of Fools vol. 1, by S. Brant translated by A. Barclay, London, 1874.
Via archive.org.
This would make an Excellent book plate.
I was just reading recently about how kermit was the lightest and easiest to use muppet.
I love this. Kermit is the original green. :)
The only muppet I ever had a crush & now I learn he was totally portable. What wonders does Kermit have yet to share *smitten*.
Thanks, Dave.
Best reason to brign back the buggy whip. Thank heavens turkeys are good for something other than dinner!
(via observando)
For Aa who can never get enough rain despite living in Seattle
Running up that hill
Thursday is the steepest part of the 9 to 5 weekly hill, Friday you balance excitedly on the top, then at the weekend you slide down the other side so fast it’s all a blur.
I must propose the my many year old theory in counter point. The Tuesday Thursday dicotomy of the 5 day conventional work week.
Tuesday: worst day of the week. Monday you’re still in denial that the week has started, by Tuesday you can no longer deny it and you have the whole thing in front of you, ick.
Thursday: best day of the work week. You’ve survived most of it and still have time to finish up that report before it’s due on Friday. Still have time to make or finalize weekend plans. By Friday you’re frantic to wrap stuff up, still haven’t made reservations for dinner or decided which gathering you’re going to. Stress all around.
Tuesday worst, Thursday best. Speaking of which I think I’ll leave early… because I have pleanty of time tomorrow to finish up that report. :)
This ceiling is made of beetles. 1.6 million, of them. Or Buprestidae to be precise; a family of the insect which are more commonly known as Jewel Beetles.
This incredible ceiling art - known as Heaven Of Delight - can be found at the Royal Palace in Brussels and was the brainchild of controversial Flemish artist Jan Fabre, a man renowned for working with strange media including blood, sperm and all manner of insects. Apparently it took Fabre’s team of around 30 people 4 months just to glue the beetle shells to the ceiling.
To read an interview with the artist, go here.
I was privelged enough to see his most recent live show in Seattle. Because it was done at an amaizing theater with a marvelous grant you too can see his latest live show at: http://ontheboards.tv/orgy-of-tolerance for $5 or you can own it in high deffinition for $15… not for the timid he really does try to test how much will an audience tollerate (by watching on-line you do miss out drowning in the cigar smoke.)
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (via libraryland)
I must disagree slightly & say it is also an act oc conscioucious creation. Of two wills pulling for the same thing. Not everyone wants glowing depth in the same way. furthermore It is possible with more than 2.
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com I’m moving to that district just so I CAN vote for this company. I admit the ad is my favorite part. Seriously though… I wonder if they seriously attempt to run if they will go up on ellections fraud charges. The one comment that makes the most sense is that corporations may be ‘people’ but they are still not citizens. Facinating to think about.
"More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled."
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many - The Denver Post The future of the tax cut. In Seattle I call this the Eyeman principle.
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
This is a brilliant build your own ambient music sort of page. wonderful for the non-musician.
(via cradletograve)
(via letterstodeadpeople) It’s not ABOUT love, it’s about desire.
