Dorothy Parker, 1937. (via americanchickens)
Category: general
We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy [an] Android phone…
What isn’t tragic belongs to the comic spirit. The novel is nourished by both and swallows both up greedily.
Before The Aircraft Carrier: The Union Army Balloon Corp
Beginning in 1861, the Union Army had an active balloon corp. The Union Army Balloon Corp, led by presidential appointee Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, consisted of seven vessels, the largest at 32,000 cubic feet, used primarily for reconnaissance and surveilling Confederate troops. Most of these units were launched from ground bases; seaborne balloons had only been utilized once before, in 1849, when an Austrian vessel, Vulcano, launched a failed attempt to bomb Venice with manned hot air balloons.
The Union did not utilize a maritime vessel as a staging area until August of 1961. Lowe, with the assistance of fellow aeronaut John LaMountain, directed the construction of the first real aircraft carrier. The two rebuilt a coal barge, the George Washington Parke Custis, gutting the deck of its rigging to accommodate gas generators and a flight deck superstructure. TheCustis was part of its own battle group, towed by the Stepping Stone and accompanying sloop Wachusett, the gunboats Tioga and Port Royal, and the armed transport Delaware during the course of its operational lifespan.
Read the full article here.
I am the surprise in your cereal box
Cheaply made.
Not as cool as you thought.
Looks better in the picture.
The act of writing a poem is a bodily act as well as a mental and imaginative act, and the act of reading a poem—even silently—must be bodily before it’s intellectual.
Donald Hall (via theparisreview)
ben:
MoMA purchased some fonts recently (23 to be exact), most of which having some sort of historical significance.
One of these typefaces was OCR-A by American Type Founders, which is probably best known as the font used for routing numbers on checks. It’s used in other business contexts as well because it was designed to be perfectly readable by computers. The characters are distinct enough that individual characters won’t get mistaken for other ones.
theeconomist: Tomorrow’s cover today Some natural disasters change history. Japan’s tsunami could be one.
We all think we escape and then spend the rest of our lives writing about our prisons.
Help Japan
by Rob DobiAll profits from this gorgeous poster go to benefit disaster recovery in Japan.
Purchase it here.
If the aim was the dissemination of ideas, the printing press could have accomplished that much better than warfare. If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace -To the progress that the people of Egypt have shown the world today. (via archivalproject)
Pray for Japan
I designed this poster in solidarity with the Japanese and what they are going through.
Terrible scenes. Please Pray and do what you can to help.
(via adamgf)
vintage twitter
Many thanks to all who attended last night’s Rooftop Poets literary salon at the Roof Garden Ballroom of the Battery Park Hotel!
Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon
You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.
Come prepared to participate in engaging dialogue about art, books, literature and life. Discussions will be lead by Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden. Please bring work by someone you admire or something you’ve written to share at the salon.
Snacks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided, along with music by Mattick Frick and the Bloodroot Orkaestarr.
$10.00 admission includes all food and beverages.
Join us Friday, February 18, 8:00pm – 11:00pm at the historic Battery Park Hotel, 1 Battle Square, Asheville, NC (located north of the Grove Arcade building).
For more info or to register for the salon, visit the Facebook events page or email: coffeehousejunkie@gmail.com
Fri., Feb. 18, 8PM Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon
You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.
Full details of the event are provided on this web page.
For more info, visit the Facebook events page or email: coffeehousejunkie@gmail.com
Rooftop Poets reading this Friday
Will the Rooftop Poets love poems? You’ll have to come and find out.
The Rooftop Poets perform at Accent on Books on Fri., Feb. 11, 6 PM. Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden will be accompanied by special guest musician Mattick Frick.
This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
Rain, Donald Hall
Curled on the sofa,
In the fetal position, Jane wept day
And night, night and day.
I could not touch her; I could do nothing.
Melancholia fell
Like rain over Ireland for week
Without end.
I never
Belittled her sorrows or joshed at
Her dreads and miseries.
How admirable I found myself.
22 Pages
That’s the size of today’s Asheville Citizen-Times. Monday’s newspaper was only 20 pages. And most of what I read is reprinted content from USA Today or AP. AC-T is a city newspaper that barely prints city news. When will AC-T print something the people of Asheville want to read?
Coffeehouse Junkie 