Leen took a good picture of Seoul! And of her first-cousin-once-removed and me building an Allosaurus!
(These are from two days ago — not from 2009 as the date suggests.)
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Thanks, California, for the first good weather we’ve had up here since September!
(Image from this awesome blog.)
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Billy Strayhorn died 44 years ago today. Here for you is one of his most famous compositions, Take The A Train, played by the Duke Ellington Orchestra at their awesome 1956 Newport Jazz Festival performance. (That’s Ray Nance on the trumpet.)
And here’s Duke’s eulogy for Billy:
Time Travel
i returned home from a long day of travels, south dakota - minneapolis - milwaukee - boston, to find my fridge stocked with a six-pack of narragansett lager and the cupboard with just-add-water pancake mix. james of ten days ago, you are a fucking genius.
I liked this post so much, I have returned to tumblr after an eight-month hiatus just to reblog it.
Har har.
By the awesome Kate Beaton.
I was going to post exactly this but Lena beat me to it.
This is Francis Bacon.
He’s walking on Primrose Hill, London, in 1963.
The photograph was taken by Bill Brandt.
