what a birthday for grandie j
on an afternoon spent with family and friends at
imagine a mash-up of
barnum and bailey
music
guiness book of records memorabilia
carnivals, cotton candy, prize tickets
vintage
coin-operated animatronics, mechanical games
and
collections of very imaginable oddity
along with some
you could never imagine.
it was a boy’s dream come true.
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“once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.”
-neal stephenson
“reading is a conversation. all books talk. but a good book listens as well.”
– mark haddon
t-rex heads into the weekend with a broken claw, an avengers bandaid, and a few less teeth-
but still standing.
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“you know, hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― bill watterson – calvin and hobbes
just chillin’ in the polar ice cave
when quite suddenly
a firefighter
from out of nowhere
makes a daring rescue
and
enters stage left.
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“it’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
-louis c. k.
detroit red wings face off during hockey night in motown
last season at joe louis arena
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“a good hockey player plays where the puck is. a great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. “
-wayne gretzky
m organized the world according to the animals.
some live in the water, some with grass and trees, some with sand and stone, and some with snow and ice.
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“science is organized knowledge. wisdom is organized life.”
-immanuel kant
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image credit: bemorewithlesss.com
left wondering
how this sizable and colorful bra
ended up in the bag of children’s dress-up clothes
just sitting there quietly
mixed amongst
the mermaid, the dragon, and the cowboy gear
and who it might belong to.
all i know for sure is that
there is a story in here somewhere.
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“i have never been bored an hour in my life.
i get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen
and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
-william allen white
in iceland, drawing a map on your mail works just as well as an address
iceland is a magical place, where peace reigns and elves dictate where roads can be built and a mcDonald’s burger can end up in the country’s national museum. it’s also the kind of place where if you don’t know the address where you want your mail to go, you can just draw a map, as condé nast traveler reports.
a tourist looking to mail an envelope to a farm in the village of búðardalur in western iceland didn’t know the proper postal address, so instead, the visitor just drew a sketch of the location. the outside of the letter included pertinent details like the town name, descriptions like “a horse farm with an icelandic/danish couple and 3 kids and a lot of sheep” and the fact that “the danish woman works in a supermarket in búðardalur.” the envelope mapped out local highway routes and bodies of water in relation to the farm. it also included a hefty “takk fyrir!,” icelandic for “thank you.” the letter departed from reykjavik, and by the grace of very patient icelandic postal workers, did end up at its intended destination, the hólar farm and petting zoo. it must be quite the place to earn such dedication from its visitors.
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* kemst þó hægt fari.
translation: you will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.
english equivalent: we rode slow, but we ride sure.
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source: Íslands, Landsbókasafn (1980). Árbók. Bókasafnið
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credits: mentalfloss.com-shaunacy ferro, conde-nast magazine, steina matt (image)
