You deduct every possible reason and still find them sticking around, and then realize you almost made it without sounding/thinking corny so far.
So close.
Let’s all dress up in colorful cardigans, ponchos and assemble inside a riverside silken tent, sinking our heels in the sand. Sway to Kings of Leon while sipping flutes of bellini. And stifle giggles everytime a drunk Scottish swears. To_do@doomsday
Matthias Pascal never thought he would see the end of his grandfather’s Balvenie 191. But on his 30th wedding anniversary, he poured himself a glass and went out walking, closing a firm door on the festivities inside. Next morning, his wife found him asleep on a park bench, bare-chested, with a grubby faced infant sitting patiently by his side, naked.
The kid never left his side from then on till Mattias’s death at 75.
Miranda Tate is the de facto curator toting a black slender cigarette holder and a string of pearls. She often walks the hues with a barely concealed fetish for floral prints and dark haired jockeys.
nypl:
Got milk? Specifically, Nestle’s Swiss Milk? Apparently, according to this ad from between 1893 and 1924 and currently in in the Library’s Art and Architecture Collection, it’s very important for cats to have it, because it makes them “sound in limb and brain.” Actually, a while back, we posted the prequel to this ad, in which the brown cat had been drinking - gasp - skim milk instead, and looked rather, well, not sound in limb and brain. His friend set him straight, though, and now they’re both fat with coats like silk. A happy ending for a happy Caturday!
New Scientist
1975 Vol. 65, No. 935
The original ad for The Great Gatsby, found in a 1925 issue of Princetonian
(via scribnerbooks)
iPhone Glass Back Becomes Wet Collodion Photo Plate
Old meets new yet again in this successful science-cum-art project by self-professed photo nerd Jake Potts of Bruton Stroube Studios. He was able to create a unique iPhone design by developing its glass back cover via the wet collodion process! How geeky cool is that?