I like these.

believermag:

Erica Mendritzki is finishing her MFA at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, Germany and the UK. I spoke to her over gchat about her thesis project, a suite of four paintings titled “On Posing,” which I learned about when she presented them recently at a weekend of artist’s talks hosted by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. – Sheila Heti

THE BELIEVER: First of all, what are we seeing here?

ERICA MENDRITZKI: These are four paintings that started with the idea of making a picture of a photographer’s backdrop—the kind you might find in a yearbook photo, or in a family portrait taken at Sears.…

“My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is easy.”
President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
Pest in peace; you will be missed but forever fondly remembered.

Pest in peace; you will be missed but forever fondly remembered.

(via powells)

FUCKING AWESOME

FUCKING AWESOME

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It’s like setting a jar of moonshine on the floor of a boxcar full of 10 hobos and saying, “Now fight for it!” Sure, in the bloody aftermath you can say to each of the losers, “Hey, you could have had it if you’d fought harder!” and that’s true on an individual level. But not collectively — you knew goddamned well that nine hobos weren’t getting any hooch that night. So why are you acting like it’s their fault that only one of them is drunk?

You’re intentionally conflating “anyone can have the moonshine” with “everyone can have it.” And you are doing it because you’re hoping that we will all be too busy fighting each other to ask why there was only one jar.

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6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying | Cracked.com (via rachelfershleiser)

(via rachelfershleiser)

slaughterhouse90210: “I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

slaughterhouse90210:

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

HOORAY!

HOORAY!

barackobama: Another reason to like Obamacare.

barackobama:

Another reason to like Obamacare.

fsgbooks:

A look that the bedrooms the literary and famous, including Capote, Faulkner, and Plath. (Hat tip to Apartment Therapy.)

Yup.

Yup.

(via bookstorecouture)