tumble dry low heat

laundromats are slow, lazy sundays, lugging detergent, fabric softener, and weeks worth of quarters to stare curiously at the socks and underwear of the neighbors you never meet. i want a disco in my laundromat, so we can dance. email laundrmat@gmail.com
~ Wednesday, November 25 ~
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Narelle Autio, “Splash” from the series, Watercolours. (via Two Looks, a blog by Magnum’s Alex Webb and his wife Rebecca Norris Webb)

Narelle Autio, “Splash” from the series, Watercolours. (via Two Looks, a blog by Magnum’s Alex Webb and his wife Rebecca Norris Webb)


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~ Tuesday, November 24 ~
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~ Monday, November 23 ~
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~ Saturday, November 21 ~
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I’ll do it if you insist, sir, but I’m going to be grumpy… until the end of this sentence!
— Kenneth the page, grinning as he walks away.

~ Friday, November 20 ~
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The xx - Stars

Album currently on repeat.


~ Monday, November 16 ~
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Ideas for Cities, from Good
(via City of Sound)

Ideas for Cities, from Good

(via City of Sound)


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Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work “The Red Detachment of Women,” a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China on Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Thanks.

unburyingthelead:

Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work “The Red Detachment of Women,” a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China on Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

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~ Monday, November 9 ~
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  • me: he's so weird. after all these years, still the same
  • i think when you get older your quirks amplify
  • her: yeah people dont change much
  • they just become more themselves
  • me: yeah
  • that's terrible, if yourself is bad
  • her: because all your insecurities shed by the time you're in your thirities
  • so you're just left with who you really are

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This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below. (via Captured  Photo Collection   » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos)

This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below. (via Captured Photo Collection  » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos)


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Every year, Black Friday rings in the yearly holiday shopping season, with hundreds of thousands of people getting up before sunrise to queue for bargains and deals; when the doors are unlocked, the stores being besieged by their own customers. During Black Friday last year, security guard Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by death crazed shoppers as he tried to hold back bargain seekers at a Long Island Walmart. Unfortunately, the uproar in the media was mostly over by the end of the weekend.
Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, absurdity, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving.

Picture Black Friday

Every year, Black Friday rings in the yearly holiday shopping season, with hundreds of thousands of people getting up before sunrise to queue for bargains and deals; when the doors are unlocked, the stores being besieged by their own customers. During Black Friday last year, security guard Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by death crazed shoppers as he tried to hold back bargain seekers at a Long Island Walmart. Unfortunately, the uproar in the media was mostly over by the end of the weekend.

Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, absurdity, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving.

Picture Black Friday


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You can’t go to Asmara and not note the architecture. While most African capitals today are replete with drab, hulking towers from the 1960s and 1970s, the Eritrean capital, dating back to its days as an early-century Italian colonial pied-a-terre, is home to some of the boldest designs on the continent.
Benito Mussolini saw Asmara as an extension of his Fascist empire. He used the highland city, as Barney Jopson wrote recently in the Financial Times, as “a laboratory for bold architectural styles – rationalism, futurism, monumentalism – that would never pass muster in Italy. The result is a cocktail of convex façades, jutting balconies and porthole windows.”

McClatchy blog: Somewhere in Africa

You can’t go to Asmara and not note the architecture. While most African capitals today are replete with drab, hulking towers from the 1960s and 1970s, the Eritrean capital, dating back to its days as an early-century Italian colonial pied-a-terre, is home to some of the boldest designs on the continent.

Benito Mussolini saw Asmara as an extension of his Fascist empire. He used the highland city, as Barney Jopson wrote recently in the Financial Times, as “a laboratory for bold architectural styles – rationalism, futurism, monumentalism – that would never pass muster in Italy. The result is a cocktail of convex façades, jutting balconies and porthole windows.”

McClatchy blog: Somewhere in Africa


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'The Fall of the Wall United Us Again'

Medvedev: Every historical figure is revered by some and rejected by others, and this holds true for Stalin as well. In my blog, I clearly defined Stalin’s deeds as crimes. Fifty million Russians regularly access the Internet — over a third of the Russian population. Thousands have responded. Some wrote that the head of state has finally taken a clear stance on the oppression and on Stalin. Others, on the other hand, refused to accept my views. They wrote that our country has Stalin to thank for its developed economy and free social services, and they said that there was virtually no crime under his leadership. They said that today’s Russian leaders should first of all try to match those achievements.

SPIEGEL: That doesn’t sound very flattering for you.

(SPIEGEL Interview with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev)


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