Your heart, that place

you don’t even think of cleaning out.

That closet stuffed with savage mementos.

— Louise Erdrich, “Advice to Myself”

Taking my toys and going home!

The Greatest American Mullet

Maybe we can write a song about this lovely gentleman and set it to the music from Greatest American Hero. Let's try!

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on somebody's blog,
It should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I chose this hair.
I never thought I could feel such glee-.
Sitting with friends at a county fair.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

My hair's like a party,
Going on all of the time.
My happiness and hair are unrestrained
And I didn't spend a dime!

Believe it or not,
I chose this hair.
I never thought I could feel such glee-.
Sitting with friends at a county fair.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

Thank you, Carl Sagan

 

Frederick J. Waugh
The Knight of the Holy Grail
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans

Horrifying Cuteness.

A pottos baby. We are almost sickened by the cuteness.

“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

— John Waters, Baltimore director, hero, human

Now

From

Keaton Insane

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."

Dust of which he breathed

“He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.”
— Gustave Flaubert

Godzilla is very happy for you.

From

Le Lettre, 1908 | Jean Béraud, found at Le Musée

Build Rocket Boys!

Elbow, gentle neck rub and sunshine through the cloud music for those in the bunkers with me.

My 2010

Just Outside of Buffalo, New York

A waterfall with an eternal flame. Photo by Carl Crumley

Found at Uncertain Times 

For Dianne

After valiantly cleaning out the vacuum and going over the carpet until the color was once again visible.

Fact: The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

“ The mark of a good book is that you’re happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is that you occasionally schedule your life to stay home with it."

Derek Thompson, associate editor - The Atlantic on The Best Book I Read This Year

From