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here’s the opening line to one my articles this week:
there are all kinds of cheap vacant lots. (there’s even a good song about them—it goes, “he’s so drunk he’s passed out in a datsun/ that’s parked out in the hot sun/ in the saddest vacant lot in all the world.”) but the real estate market is so glittery in manhattan now that nothing, even a large piece of nothingness, is ever inexpensive here.
see below for a super grand explanation…
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(this post was reblogged from gillianmae)
Historians and novelists are kin … but they’re more like brothers who throw food at each other than like sisters who borrow each other’s clothes.
Jill Lepore in her New Yorker essay Just the Facts Ma’am: Fake memoirs, factual fictions, and the history of history. Good read. (via gillianmae)
iO - Design Collective “‘It’s about time’ gives a rough account of the time using words to give a true reflection of how people view time.”
(this post was reblogged from mattmcinerney)
The Desire Paths Flickr pool. Desire paths are improvised paths built collectively by pedestrians trying to find the shortest way across the grass, like ants laying down pheromone trails to food. I’ve heard of some clever institutions who wait for desire paths to be laid down by pedestrians and then put permanent sidewalks in those places. (via The Desire Paths Flickr pool. Desire paths are improvised paths… (kottke.org))
Woot! Pacquiao Wins!
The Pacman is finally Champ! His battle with Marquez was really epic…A photo of them after the match. :D
The Date Farmers made this awesome Obama poster - Scotty (partner in PROCESS) pointed this on out to me.
(via penguinclassics)
It must have been a long day at work.
5 years too many (via spring_peeper)
(this post was reblogged from missbrightside)
(this post was reblogged from vintagelivejournalrss)
