Popular Science, November 1937. Found via Modern Mechanix via Google image.
the collected musings of ms. rachel b. doyle
A 24-yr-old journalist drifting through various cities, whims, boîte spots & airports.
I ditched Manhattan and weak dollar writing gigs for Berlin, euros and everything else. Apart from some odd occasions where I've pined for bargain books or Law and Order reruns, I can't say I miss America at all. If you're so inclined, drop me a line here.
I ditched Manhattan and weak dollar writing gigs for Berlin, euros and everything else. Apart from some odd occasions where I've pined for bargain books or Law and Order reruns, I can't say I miss America at all. If you're so inclined, drop me a line here.
Nov 16
Nov 13
(via mollylambert)
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Elastica - Never Here
Then I started to worry
I thought of our lives left on the shelves
Too much TV and curry
Too much time spent on ourselves.
I love a Russian doll: so simple, so timeless, so coy. Sara Zucker writes that a slew of dolls were created by leading fashion designers for Vogue Russia’s 10th anniversary. I wouldn’t mind the Giles Deacon (the spiked babushka) or Dries Van Noten (in a signature watercolor print) in my stocking this (Orthodox) Christmas.
Nov 12
» The Emotionally Unavailable Alcoholic’s Guide to Holiday Dating
23. Avoid any man with a tribal armband tattoo. He is a mirage from 1998.
24. Avoid any man who makes an exaggerated point of being Irish. He thinks he is a character from The Departed.
25. Avoid any man who writes music. He doesn’t go outside enough.
(via buttercuppunch)
I picture this dance party taking place to “Rock Lobster.” via phantomoftheradio: via laboiteapuces.com
“ This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels, they pretended that they weren’t crying, that this wasn’t the worst day of their lives.
— White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via runningfromlions)
phantomoftheradio: FELINE PALS (via tonto—kidd)
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Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling Up
Scumbags and superstars
Tell me your names
I’ll make a bet, you’re
Both the same
Nov 11
“ My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
— Amy Winehouse (via savewinehouse)
Oh. Like a Joke
Older mailman (in AOL voice): You’ve got mail!
Woman (flatly): Yes.
Older mailman: Like a computer! You’ve got mail!
—The Village
- amazingness via overhead in newyork.
(via smut-to-go)
Nov 10
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Metric - Help, I’m Alive
Metric is one of my favorite bands to listen to on public transport. This new single is fantastic. (via grayandgreen)
- Caitlin: kat williams does a white people joke
- Caitlin: about how white people will say "let's get wasted" or "let's get drunk"
- Caitlin: like we plan it
- Caitlin: which is so true!
- Me: hahaha
- Me: and then we say "im so wasted!"
- Me: like mission: accomplished!
- Caitlin: also he says "you gotta watch out for your white friends because they drink EVERYTHING"
- Me: i'd say we drink everything besides wine.
- Me: cos we have a fear of it being fancy and off-limits
- Me: unless it is twist-off. then it's fair game
- Caitlin: he was saying like "oh a brother, if he drinks hennessy, he only drinks hennessy"
- Caitlin: "your white friends will feed you four different drinks in one outing"
- Caitlin: like as in white people drink all types of boozes, not, they will drink all yr boozes
- Me: ahhh, i see
- Caitlin: this is what happens when i try to repeat black comedians
- Caitlin: hahaha
- Me: LOST IN TRANSLATION