Rival Planet

The tumblr of Alexander Chee.

Uh, what about “V. Disney becomes private security contractor”?

hatethefuture:

Unfortunate Future Developments In Policing

I. Crackdown on young hotshot/grizzled veteran detective partnerships   

II. Search warrants to search your house for just cause for wiretap warrant

III. Tedious ethnicity tests to aid racial profiling

IV. Comment cards that probably no one reads

"I don’t wish to convey messages—period. But I look carefully at certain situations in the world and try to render them honestly. And if someone perceives that to be a bleak situation, it’s the situation’s fault, not mine!" 

Jonathan Franzen from Emily Gould’s interview with him over at Goodreads. Via her excellent tumblr, thingsiatethatilove.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT? 

My Icebat. I’m sorry, Tumblrbot. It is not Tumblrbot.

Not yet.

From the great Moon Hoax of 1835, when the NY Sun published a report claiming that the moon was home to a race of Bat Men who fornicated in public and were pagans.

Honestly, I would have tried to get there back then.

Other space ships.

I loved space ships when I was a kid—-had a picture book of them that I could look at for hours. I remember learning that you could set a sail on a solar wind and GO somewhere that way—-that seemed much more exciting than a rocketship, or the space jump. A sunjammer. Lately all I want to do is think about space travel, colonies on Mars, escape. I am so tired of Earth. My whole life I’ve always had the feeling “well, let’s just see how this whole Planet Earth thing works out”. I’ve always had one eye on the sky.

seahorsebear:

gorillafood:

zurrabear:

my-ear-trumpet:

atompunk:

godsandengineers:

sprezz:

(via crookedindifference, mohandasgandhi)

Tome is relative.

Carl Sagan = Instant reblog

redandjonny:

bedtime.

Goodbye, summer.

seahorsebear:

kindredspiritanimal:

biggaytiger:

tapestryofmen:

ucsubbear:

ohyeaaah:

scruffyjizzmonkey:

gefallenerengel:

(via kiske)

It was time? 

The old name of this blog was Rebellitor, based on the subject heading of an email I got from Beau Sia. Rival Planet is the new name. I hope this is not confusing.

Bruce Chatwin, in letters 

Chatwin’s letters are published.