“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
Dream/nightmare
I grabbed a beer from the basement. It was not a twist off.
So, I thought to myself: “Looks like I have to get a bottle opener from the kitchen because I am not some sort of alcoholic who keeps one in my bedroom.”
Afterwards, I sat down at my desk to do some writing and noticed three bottle openers right on my desk.
“If you were a Ghostbuster would you ghostbust Steve Job’s ghost?”
Dirty Pirate Popsicles | Coke, Captain Morgan spiced rum and Kahlua
you know how i feel about popsicles…
(Source: byjessiekay)
“A lot of quotes on Facebook are misattributed.” — Abraham Lincoln
Let me tell you a thing or two about sausage.
[video]
(via psychedelic-high)
Needs more cowbell.
Christopher Walken illustrated by Marissa Lanterman :: via marissalanterman.com
I AM NEWT GINGRICH!
Can anyone drive me to the hospital? I accidentally fronted.
This building looks like a Mondrian painting threw up on it.
Going overboard on one theme isn’t a good idea when the theme is minimalism.
We must rebuild, open up and clean up the hearts of our cities. The fact that slums were created with all the intrinsic evils was everybody’s fault. Now it is everybody’s responsibility to repair the damage.
Joseph Darst, 1951
Pruitt-Igoe like other modernist housing projects at the time met the goal of vertically integrating life. However, social life is not meant to be vertical - it is meant to be diverse, segmented, and unique. Modernist architecture and planning was brutal, rigid, and inhuman because it failed to understand the difference between living and existing.
Pruitt-Igoe was built in St. Louis for two reasons: to provide housing to the lower- and middle-class and to unify the necessities into a tightly knit ecosystem with amenities such as a school and church. Designed on the principles of modernist architect Le Corbusier, Pruitt-Igoe was composed of 33 buildings largely out of mass-manufactured glass and concrete.
Instead of becoming the template for the future of urban planning, Pruitt-Igoe with poor construction and materials became dilapidated and inhospitable. It was demolished in 1972, only 16 years after it’s completion.
“I am a hockey historian not some sort of gay marriage expert.” — Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.
“I love poor people. Their food is excellent especially the McDouble.” — John Boehner (R), House Majority Leader.