this sign on larkin street always amuses me.
this sign on larkin street always amuses me.
20x200 : Print Information : iSketch842 - just bought this, love his work
Flavorwire Image Gallery - British photographer Julian Hibbard pairs his signature dark images with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet in his racy new abecedary The Noir A-Z.
rufus wainwright - san francisco
Built 1934. Served Blackpool, England 1934-1984. Market Street Railway receives more queries about this odd–looking English tram than any other car. When the car appears on the F-line, it brings smiles to all who see it go by—its nautical air whistle gaily tooting. This car, No. 228, is actually the second ‘Boat Tram’ to run on Muni’s tracks. An identical ex–Blackpool tram was leased from the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction. It was so popular, Trolley Festival project manager Rick Laubscher got an unused Boat donated by Blackpool Transport, with his then–employer, Bechtel, covering the cost of shipping. (via Blackpool boat tram No. 228 - Market Street Railway)
(saw this twice today! one of my favorites)
Armistice Day Remembrances - The Big Picture - Boston.com (really touching pictures)
KEVIN DOLGIN TELLS YOU ABOUT PLACES YOU SHOULD GO IN EUROPE BY KEVIN DOLGIN
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Vatican City is the crumb left over once the pope’s earthly domain was reduced to a couple of blocks in Rome following Italian unification. The pope at the time (Pius IX) was very unhappy about this abrogation of his temporal power (free access heaven is apparently no substitute for an earthly kingdom, despite what the gospels say) and until Paul VI, the popes, in a bout of ecclesiastical pouting that was to last for a century, considered themselves exiled in their own country, which is the size of a large bath towel.
Vatican City consists primarily of the basilica of Saint Peter, who was the first pope and is buried under a very impressive altar in the middle of the basilica. You can visit his grave (and the graves of most of the popes) by standing in a long line and shuffling through a series of marble hallways while guards say “shush”. There will be a traffic jam at the grave of John Paul II, where you can either be pushed along with the crowd or step behind the special contemplation ropes to contemplate and look way more devout than the tourists who get pushed past wondering what “Joannes Paulus PP. II” means.
(more at link / well written / i need a vacation)
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News (for Jacob and Eli!)
pretty!
IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS. BY COLIN NISSAN
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I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
(more at the link - i love autumn but this amused me!)
this was 2:30AM last night for me.
J’s Subway Poster (via indigobunting)
this is great - all the work on this flickr site is (via kottke.org)