Beautiful: the Peace Dollar →

Did you know that the United States had Art Deco money in the Thirties?

thebronzemedal:

“Teachers want us to work, and I say, ‘Fine, I’ll work. But you’ve gotta let me do the kind of work that I wanna do.’ And for me, it’s my drum kit, man. This is my passion. This is the essence of who I am now. But before I had this, I was lost, too. You see what I’m saying? You need to find your reason for living. You’ve gotta find your big, gigantic drum kit.”

-Nick Andopolis, Freaks and Geeks

(via seventhstring)

That is Nick’s 29-piece drum kit. Yes, I counted them.

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Say hello to my new swagger wagon. Driving it has helped me uncover a new sense of identity for myself:

Q: What kind of person am I?
A: The kind of person who drives a station wagon.

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I love letter presses. (via sealust)

How To Make An Alexander Calder-esque Abstract Mobile →

Summer project. This is so on.

Yeah, change “dark-haired” to “blonde and freckled” and that’s pretty much true. I mean, seriously, what is there not to like about breakfast food? (via pibbplusredvines)

The Rise and Fall of FIVE IRON FRENZY

This DVD is on sale online and in Hot Topics across the country.

Please allow me to take a moment to remind everyone that once at Icthus 1999 I talked Brad (FIF’s trumpet player) into leaving the band’s merch booth and joining me in the mosh pit of the small stage while Switchfoot played. It was epic.

Walker Percy (right) with Shelby Foote. Check out those socks. That is one stylish dude. (via)

Bet that was a fun day at the beach. Wolfe and Vonnegut. (via walkwhilereading)

"I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and with very little financial encouragement — saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle."

Kay Ryan (via austinkleon)

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Robin Sloan (author of Annabel Scheme) has a new multimedia short story up on his web site. The Truth About the East Wind involves words, sounds, and images, and is thoroughly awesome.

"As another high school English teacher, here’s my take: Unlike ‘awesome’, ‘epic’ isn’t a particularly useful word in its main sense. (And it never meant “truly amazing.”) When did anyone describe anything as epic besides the Odyssey and the occasional really long movie? As an English teacher, this slang redefinition is a boon. Since ‘epic’ now means “really cool in a beyond-other-things sort of way”, when you do teach a REAL epic, it will automatically be cool, because it is, by definition, epic. And when the kids read it, and realize that what happens to the main character is even more epic than anything they’ve ever called epic, the book will be even better to them."

craigiest on reddit. (via dailymeh)

Flannery O’Connor by Christine Marie Larsen (via walkwhilereading)