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whitehouse:

Getting ready for the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Watch it live tonight at 10 p.m. ET on http://wh.gov/live

shortformblog:

hypervocal:

“We are trying to be provocative in the best use of that term.” –Jon Rubin, Conflict Kitchen co-director

GREAT story we just posted about Conflict Kitchen, a Pittsburgh restaurant that only serves food from countries in conflict with the USA. Check this out, a great concept, and some great quotes.

“Reaction’s been great,” Rubin says when asked the obvious. “There’s never been this kind of food in Pittsburgh, and we didn’t know whether people would be into that. But people are starving for food and diversity.”

Such an amazing idea.

picadorbookroom:

Can’t ever get enough quotes about the joy of reading and the addiction of a good book.

(Hat tip: Tattered Cover Book Store. Buy prints here: http://etsy.me/11gXcia)

oldbookillustrations:

Eurasian harvest mouse.

From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) vol. 2, under the direction of Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig & Vienna, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)

spacequest:

There’s a FORD in your future!

Five ads from 1947 issues of Life magazine for 1948 Ford automobiles. 

Included are:
    Ford’s out Front with a Family Affair!
    “Come with me,” said Alice, “I’ll show you why Ford’s Out Front!”
    Ford’s Out Front with a High I.Q.
    Ford’s Out Front with the car you’ve been dreaming about!
    Ford’s out Front with a famous V-9 And a brilliant, new 6 Folks say is great!

Sourced on ebay judgeguy08

(via vintascope)

timetravelanddonuts:

From Life magazine: Photo from the 1971 ALA annual conference in Dallas. Barbara Gittings organized a booth offering free same-sex hugs and kisses.

The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table was the nation’s first GLBT professional organization. I’m proud to be part of such a forward-thinking field as librarianship.

(For those that are interested, the booth received a (predictably) mostly negative reaction, with little to no people stopping by for a free hug. So the staffers of the booth hugged and kissed each other. Gittings kissed Patience and Sarah author Alma Routsong (aka Isabel Miller) while cameras were rolling and made the nightly news. That same year she appeared with a panel of lesbians on the David Susskind Show to debunk gay stereotypes of the time. She was approached in a supermarket a week after the appearance by a middle-aged couple who claimed “You made me realize that you gay people love each other just the way Arnold and I do.”)

(via libraryjournal)