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Warby Parker - Profiled in this issue of GQ, Warby Parker is an...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:55:00 -0800

Warby Parker - Profiled in this issue of GQ, Warby Parker is an online prescription eye-wear retailer with an revolutionary business model. The company sells a line of beautiful, boutique quality bold frame eyeglasses 1/4 the price of what you would find in other retailers. On top of that, the company lets you to select a number of frames to try out for free before committing to a pair.

If you’re into Moscot, Tom Ford, Oliver Peoples types of bold frame eyeglasses, you definitely need to check out Warby Parker.

Sewn From The Soul

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:08:45 -0800

Sewn From The Soul

His tweed jacket is perfectly proportionate to the wool pants,...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:53:16 -0800

His tweed jacket is perfectly proportionate to the wool pants, and look at the inch cuff and the brown suede boots. Talk about sprezzatura!

Sharpest looking old Asian dude ever! I wish I would be this...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:52:00 -0800

Sharpest looking old Asian dude ever! I wish I would be this cool when I’m 65…

No Woman No Cry - Legend, Bob Marley I just learned this song on...

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:42:12 -0800

No Woman No Cry - Legend, Bob Marley

I just learned this song on my guitar. I know, I’m a noob.

Skiing Is Not For Pussies!

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:32:00 -0800

Skiing Is Not For Pussies!

Just when I thought I was getting better at guitar…

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:02:12 -0800

Just when I thought I was getting better at guitar…

(via sandoz)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:40:05 -0800

(via sandoz)

meghanasha: CES 2010: Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Tablet...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:38:29 -0800

meghanasha:

CES 2010: Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Tablet Trumps Apple!!! - Tekzilla

Video

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:01:33 -0800

How to Fake Like You've Read Dostoevsky

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:24:26 -0800

cozystumblings:

Lauren Leto

Faking It

Reading books is hard, yo! Fake your favorite author.

How To Fake Like You’ve Read Dostoevsky

If you’re trying to present yourself as someone who is a brooding intellectual, let’s do a quick review of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

1. Knowing Dostoevsky’s first name is not important. Knowing how to pronounce his name is important. Say it like this: DOS [like the “dos” in “Dos Equis,” you drunk] – TOY [the dirty kind]- EV [the nickname for that Russian guy you slept with] – SKI [the sport I cannot do]. Also, Dostoevsky is spelled various ways, but since you’re already too dumb and lazy to read, let’s only focus on this spelling. It’s how most Americans spell it and America – fuck yeah!

2. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are not the same thing. Just because they are both Russian authors does not mean that you should put them in the same camp. Tolstoy will be covered in another post.

3. Crime and Punishment is like the Tell Tale Heart (you know the story by the first major Goth guy, right?). A man kills and the guilt eats away at him psychologically (very barebones of the plot, try not to talk specifics). No one who is a fan of Dostoevsky would only read Crime and Punishment. Name drop The Brothers Karamazov, say that you still read over Zosima’s passages when you need to feel inspired about your worldview.

4. Dostoevsky got exiled to Siberia because he’s a badass motherfucker.

5. Dostoevsky focused on ethical questions such as the role of free will and God in a man’s life. He wanted people to understand that depravity breeds depravity. Hopelessness will lead to hopelessness. Basically, if you act like an antisocial asshole, you’ll be an antisocial asshole (see: The Underground Man). This is because Dostoevsky was against nihilism and rationalism – he wanted to show how thinking without emotions leads to actions without emotions. But I’m probably getting too philosophical for you.

This is brilliantly hilarious!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5BUxSJ/flavorwire.com/60938/rate-a-trailer-the-red-riding-trilogy

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Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:52:01 -0800

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iwasarecord:

stephaniechrist:

thisorigami-dream:

The legends surrounding the death of Rasputin are perhaps even more mysterious and bizarre than his life. According to Greg King’s 1996 book The Man Who Killed Rasputin, a previous attempt on Rasputin’s life had failed: Rasputin was visiting his wife and children in Pokrovskoye, his hometown along the Tura River in Siberia. On June 29, 1914, after either just receiving a telegram or exiting church, he was attacked suddenly by Khionia Guseva, a former prostitute who had become a disciple of the monk Iliodor. Iliodor, who once was a friend of Rasputin but had grown absolutely disgusted with his behaviour and disrespectful talk about the royal family, had appealed to women who had been harmed by Rasputin to form a mutual support group. Guseva thrust a knife into Rasputin’s abdomen, and his entrails hung out of what seemed like a mortal wound. Convinced of her success, Guseva supposedly screamed, “I have killed the antichrist!”

After intensive surgery, however, Rasputin recovered. It was said of his survival that “the soul of this cursed muzhik was sewn on his body.” His daughter, Maria, pointed out in her memoirs that he was never the same man after that: he seemed to tire more easily and frequently took opium for pain relief.

The murder of Rasputin has become a legend, some of it invented by the very men who killed him, which is why it has become difficult to discern the actual course of events. On December 16, 1916, having decided that Rasputin’s influence over the Tsaritsa had made him a far-too-dangerous threat to the empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and the right-wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich, apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs’ Moika Palace^[15], by intimating that Felix’s wife, Princess Irina would be present and receiving friends (In point of fact, she was away at the Crimea).^[16] The group led him down to the cellar, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a massive amount of cyanide. According to legend, Rasputin was unaffected, although Vasily Maklakov had supplied enough poison to kill five men. Conversely, Maria’s account asserts that, if her father did eat or drink poison, it was not in the cakes or wine, because after the attack by Guseva he suffered from hyperacidity and avoided anything with sugar. In fact, she expresses doubt that he was poisoned at all.

Determined to finish the job, Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to get one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes and lunged at Prince Yusupov. When he grabbed Prince Yusupov he ominously whispered in Yusupov’s ear “you bad boy” and attempted to strangle him. At that moment, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, Rasputin fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission and castrated him. After binding his body and wrapping him in a carpet, they threw him into the icy Neva River. He broke out of his bonds and the carpet wrapping him, but drowned in the river.

Three days later, the body of Rasputin, poisoned, shot four times, badly beaten, and drowned, was recovered from the Neva River. An autopsy established that the cause of death was drowning. His arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice. It was found that he had indeed been poisoned, and that the poison alone should have been enough to kill him. There is a report that after his body was recovered, water was found in the lungs, supporting the idea that he was still alive before submersion into the partially frozen river.

Subsequently, the Tsaritsa Alexandra buried Rasputin’s body in the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo, but, after the February Revolution, a group of workers from Saint Petersburg uncovered the remains, carried them into the nearby woods and burnt them. As the body of Rasputin was being burned, he appeared to sit up in the fire. His apparent attempts to move and get up thoroughly horrified bystanders. The effect can probably be attributed to improper cremation;since his body was in inexperienced hands, his tendons were probably not cut before burning. Consequently, when his body was heated, the tendons shrunk, forcing his legs to bend, and his body to bend at the waist, resulting in it appearing to sit up. This final happenstance only poured fuel on the fire of legends and mysteries surrounding Rasputin, which continue to live on long after his death.

RASPUTIN IS A FUCKING BAD ASS!
He predicted Nicholas the II’s families death
FUCK JUST LOOK AT HIM THE LADIES CAN’T RESIST

FUCK I LOVE RASPUTIN
i can’t even tell you how excited i was to see him pop up on my dashboard what in the world

"Can you speak German better then your friends, no. Have I been shot, yes. I don’t see me..."

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:50:22 -0800

“Can you speak German better then your friends, no. Have I been shot, yes. I don’t see me tripping the light fantastique up the red carpet any time soon. Least of all by tomorrow night.”

- Bridget Von Hammersmark

grapedrinkseventy: xknifeslingerx: babyjellyfish: melowdramati...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:36:43 -0800

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xknifeslingerx:

babyjellyfish:

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siddman:

holyzombie:(via reknit)

holy shit, this is badass, and i need it!!

awesomeee

need

perfect for zombies

Badd Ass.

Oh I NEED this. Not only useful in battling ghosts and goblins but real dangers of B&A. (I live in da hood)

"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in..."

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:07:40 -0800

“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.”

- T. S. Eliot - Burnt Norton

It’s the beginning of a new year, a new decade. It is the time to reflect on how time passes us by so relentlessly, and how fickle life can be. T.S. Eliot reminds us to live the present. Don’t waste anymore time. Make it count.

David Levine, considered by many as one of the best political...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:05:50 -0800

David Levine, considered by many as one of the best political cartoonist of the past century, died Tuesday at age 83.

“Levine had both artistic skill and discerning humor on his side. His subjects were most often public figures who, despite the exaggerated noses and teeth, remained recognizable.”

With My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper Fate is yours to make. Use...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:27 -0800

With My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper

Fate is yours to make. Use your own two hands to make the future you want to live in.

It’s the first day of a new decade What are you doing differently form the last ten years? ...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:16:59 -0800

It’s the first day of a new decade

What are you doing differently form the last ten years? What are your hopes and dreams for the years to come?

John Hodgman - Revenge of The Nerd: What Obama Administration...

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:55:08 -0800

John Hodgman - Revenge of The Nerd: What Obama Administration represents to the nerd community.

When sharing a living quarter...

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:54:48 -0800

It is always good to establish useful ground rules such as “piss priority.” That way there’s no confusion of who has the first rights to the throne.