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oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:48:50 -0500

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

Oh man. Finding an amazing classic album I’d never heard...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:55:13 -0500

Oh man. Finding an amazing classic album I’d never heard of before is a good thing to happen.

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Wed, 01 May 2013 14:51:53 -0500

"All these soft, warm nights going to waste when I ought to be lying in your arms under the moon- the..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:06:28 -0500

“All these soft, warm nights going to waste when I ought to be lying in your arms under the moon- the dearest arms in all the world- darling arms that I love so to feel around me- How much longer before they’ll be here to stay? When I do get home again, you’ll certainly have a most awful time ever moving me one inch from you.”

- Zelda to Scott, 1919 (via beatboxgoesthump)

humansofnewyork: I wanted to share something simple but awesome...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:05:57 -0500

humansofnewyork:

I wanted to share something simple but awesome that just happened to me. I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat, so I walked to a nearby juicebar to get a green juice. I asked the owner if he had any kale. Instead of saying “no,” he said: “Please, take a seat, I will run and buy some for you.”

Al Pasha Restaurant: Store location in the comments

Best kind of neighborhood business.

Recreate a video game cover using only comic sans and clipart:

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:21:42 -0500

aurorashaman:

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING OMG WHY DID I DO THIS AHAHAHA

Hilarious!

louisroskosch: more banjo kazooie

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:33:20 -0500

louisroskosch:

more banjo kazooie

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:31:32 -0500

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:24:51 -0500

winesburg, ohio: Take time off.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:24:25 -0500

winesburg, ohio: Take time off. :

winesburgohio:

I quit my job last month. A lot of people were surprised. To be honest, even I was a little surprised. Since then, though, I’ve fielded a lot of emails, phone calls, coffee dates, and dinner conversations about The Big Decision.

How does it feel? How did I make it? Was it the right one? (Great….

"If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:05:56 -0500

“If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others’ objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy Stooge, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your own private, entirely circumscribed situation’s many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis’s. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won’t bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.”

- Lester Bangs, The Village Voice, 29 August 1977 (via afternoonlistening)
Whoa. Mind blew a fuse reading this.

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all,..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:26:53 -0500

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”

- Edmund Lee (via thatkindofwoman)

New York, NY, just outside the Tenement Museum. (Taken with...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 23:54:24 -0500

New York, NY, just outside the Tenement Museum. (Taken with Instagram)

whatsonmyblank: pbsthisdayinhistory: August 1896: Klondike...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:13:47 -0500

whatsonmyblank:

pbsthisdayinhistory:

August 1896: Klondike Gold Rush Begins

116 years ago this week, the Klondike Gold Rush began after gold was discovered in northwest Canada. Approximately 30,000 of the “stampede” of 100,000 people arrived at the Klondike region and only 4,000 actually found gold.

Do you have what it takes to “Strike it Rich”? Play American Experience’s interactive gold rush game and test your luck!

Photo: Klondike Outfits at Dyea, 1898; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Also, “Yukon Trail” was an amazing computer game.

Taken with Instagram

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:30:29 -0500

Taken with Instagram

mmqd: Must go soon.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:18:48 -0500

mmqd:

Must go soon.

So a Girl Walks into a Comedy Club....

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:46:44 -0500

So a Girl Walks into a Comedy Club....:

Daniel Tosh is an ass.

breakfastcookie:

This is something that happened to a friend of mine in her own words.

“So, on Friday night my friend and I were at her house and wanted to get out and do something for the evening. We brainstormed ideas and she brought up the idea of seeing a show at the Laugh Factory. I’d never been, I thought…

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Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:47:54 -0500

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Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:10:37 -0500

Ready 2 Ramble: Google+ Ghost Town Phenomenon

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:19:05 -0500

Ready 2 Ramble: Google+ Ghost Town Phenomenon:

ready2ramble:

My 2 cents on the ‘reported’ unpopularity of G+

‘Ghost town’ phenomenon:

The social media stars come from Twitter/Facebook to G+ and then complain people don’t follow them, or their follower numbers are much reduced. Then they rubbish G+ because of it.

Perhaps people on G+ just don’t care…