Rival Planet

Uh, what about “V. Disney becomes private security...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:17:11 -0400

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

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..."

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:01:10 -0400

“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?

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:59:51 -0400

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...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:03:13 -0400

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.

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:55:03 -0400

Other space ships.

I loved space ships when I was a kid—-had a picture book...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:23:13 -0400

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.

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:04:38 -0400

redandjonny:

bedtime.

Goodbye,...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:15:23 -0400

Goodbye, summer.

seahorsebear:

kindredspiritanimal:

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It was time?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:04 -0400

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

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:00 -0400

Bruce Chatwin, in letters:

Chatwin’s letters are published.

(via towirr) Lately I keep wanting to draw. I am thinking of a...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:06:27 -0400

(via towirr) Lately I keep wanting to draw. I am thinking of a quote from when I heard Marjane Satrapi speak at Smith College a few years ago. She said, “I write what I can’t draw and I draw what I can’t write.”

Drawings like this make me want to just slink inside the page they’re on.

Irish dolphins and Irish surfers.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:35:56 -0400

Irish dolphins and Irish surfers.

Skybarn: Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:04:39 -0400

Skybarn: Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even...:

Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even though they are not, in fact, angry. It reminds me of my twins when they were infants. One would cry and then the other would cry because they thought they were the one that was upset. It’s no fault of New Yorkers who have never…

Found via the Awl. So sanity-making.

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Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:06:07 -0400

maudnewton:

(via willyblackmore)

My friend Gerard told this amazing story today: Gérard de...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:51:48 -0400

My friend Gerard told this amazing story today:

Gérard de Nerval had a lobster named Thibault, which he was sometimes seen walking on a blue silk leash through the gardens of the Palais-Royal. He was once asked how he could consider lobsters as pets. “They are peaceful, serious creatures,” he replied. “They know the secrets of the deep and they don’t bark.”

I googled his name and for some reason this image appeared, an amazing Egon Schiele drawing of what I can only think is a transvestite. This is my favorite sort of mistake.

If it is a mistake.

"I’m training at a new restaurant where the waiters make a great deal of money, but I..."

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:39:14 -0400

“I’m training at a new restaurant where the waiters make a great deal of money, but I don’t want to be a waiter for too much longer, because I feel like I’ve been standing up in a loud dark room for two years, which, if you wait tables in New York full time, is exactly what you’ve been doing.”

- From a statement of purpose I wrote in 1998 for a grant I didn’t get. Bastards.

Ye gods, really, is all I have to say about this...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:48:03 -0400

Ye gods, really, is all I have to say about this one.

silverwig:

Sunday morning beefcake:

Sonny Bill Williams of Belfast, during the Canterbury Club Rugby match between Belfast and Lincoln University at Sheldon Park on August 7, 2010 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Where has this comic been all my life? comicallyvintage: I’ll...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:40:32 -0400

Where has this comic been all my life?

comicallyvintage:

I’ll Only Hurt You If I Don’t Get Out Of Your Life!

I’ve had recurring dreams that looked a little like this....

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:38:25 -0400

I’ve had recurring dreams that looked a little like this. In the dreams, I was in a house I knew to be my mom’s, but a house that is unlike the one I grew up in, and the one she lives in now. I find a library that opens down and down for floors, and people are living in the shelves, with entire apartments.

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teachingliteracy:

source.

Walking the strip in Santa Monica, by the Georgian Hotel.

Fri, 21 May 2010 10:04:16 -0400

Walking the strip in Santa Monica, by the Georgian Hotel.