pretty much my favorite things about being alive

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chiboulevards:

photo by Flickr user TomiikoB

A couple of weeks before the new year, the folks at Streetside Cafe posted something quite curious to their Facebook page…

To all our wonderful regulars and friends. Thank you so much and a very happy holiday to you all. Streetside has been sold…

 i don’t know anything about this drama but look at this gin-cocktail bar opening so close to my home. dream come true

every dude

(via anorable)

anorable:

thedailywhat:

Creepy Cocktail of the Day: The Alien Brain Hemorrhage contains 1 part peace schnapps, 1 part Bailey’s Irish cream, and 2 parts grenadine.

Makes the perfect hangover cure: One look at this terrifying concoction and you’ll be as sober as a Sunday school marm.

[neatorama.]

whAT

“2 parts grenadine”

naustalgea:

Oscar took these photos last night of Galesburg looking real eerie.

oh boy does this give me feelings

seanoise:

Hey from I-85

 sc does sux but i luv u

i think i might quit okcupid again

doyourwardance:

chanelnumerocinq:

Burnt rubber tire perfume, I like you :]

I’ve always wanted a bottle of this but it’s never happened. I still do. It smells so sexy. Hate the bottle, though.

a weird thing about this perfume is that it smells exactly like infusion d’iris on me

unchartedbooks:

“For all publishers, it’s really important that brick-and-mortar retailers survive,” said David Shanks, the chief executive of the Penguin Group USA.

I’ll present this article with little context except to say that, in my opinion, books are books are books, and the difference between e-books and physical books is about the same as the difference between mass-market paperbacks and nice, new hardcovers. If a convenient, inexpensive, not-terribly-well-made-or-well-designed book is what you’re after, go with god. If you prefer something more aesthetically pleasing and you value the feeling of holding the physical book, showcasing your library to visitors and friends, and passing around a well-loved, well-worn, inscribed, marginalia-filled artifact, there’s room for you too. I sell the latter, but the former is still a damn book and I’m not getting my panties in a twist.

Just like there’s a market for both vinyl and pirated mp3’s (though the markets are far from equal), physical books and places to buy physical books aren’t going anywhere. That place may or may not be Barnes & Noble (hell, that place may not be Uncharted Books), but the idea of “book” is far larger and more important than a brand or a medium. Try to keep that in mind amid all the apoplectic doomsaying for the publishing industry.

And if physical books are something you value, buy them. They’re not going to stop making things that people buy.

book fetishism: one of my pet peeves as a librarian and human being