Sunday, November 29, 2009

Away We Go

Verona: Do you promise, when she talks, you'll listen? Like, really listen,
especially when she's scared? And that her fights will be your fights?
Burt: I do. And do you promise that if I die some embarrassing and boring death
that you're gonna tell our daughter that her father was killed by Russian soldiers in this intense hand-to-hand combat 
in an attempt to save the lives of 850 Chechnyan orphans?
Verona: I do. Chechnyan orphans. I do.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

matching shoes and headphones.

Give me a golden pen

These are the way letters were folded and delivered in 1818.




Thursday, November 12, 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox


Wes Anderson's first animated film.
Is that George Clooney I hear? As a fox? Rightfully so.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

city lights

I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I am Waiting

Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Books and Publishing in San Francisco.
A gathering place for some fun guys.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Saturday, November 7, 2009

mustache on your face, activism in your heart.

KUganda is a student group at The University of Kansas. We work directly with the non-profit organization Invisible Children to raise awareness of the on-going war in nothern Uganda and the plight of the child soldiers.
KUganda recently hosted a screening of the new Invisible Children movie. Our screening was mustached themed. In honor of no-shave November.


We say, don't shave through a revolution.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

tall facades of marble and iron

Manhatta by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
A beautiful display of this big apple in the 1920's with excerpts from poems by Walt Witman.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Monday, November 2, 2009

creative spaces

the guardian has an ongoing series of portraits of writer's rooms.

jane austen
virginia woolf
rudyard kipling

tea for your taste and your eyes.