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newberrylibrary: Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Doyle,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17:58 -0500

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Doyle, a Scottish physician and writer, is best remembered as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, one of crime fiction’s most beloved characters.

Holmes—and his intrepid sidekick Watson—first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, published in the 1886 Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Holmes was partially modeled after Joseph Bell, Doyle’s former university professor. Doyle wrote to Bell, “It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes… [R]ound the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man.”

In December of 1893, Doyle resolved to concentrate on what he considered his more important work—his historical novels. He had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their (ostensible) deaths in “The Final Problem.” Public outcry demanded that he revive his much loved sleuth. He did so in 1901’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, first published in Strand Magazine. He set the novel before the “The Final Problem.” Holmes was officially revived in 1903’s “The Adventure of the Empty House, ” in which he explains Moriarty’s death and his own miraculous survival.

Pictured: 1) a 1901 publicity poster announcing the publication of Hound of the Baskervilles. It was illustrated by Albert Morrow. 2) Front cover of the original publisher’s binding, designed by Alfred Garth Jones. It sports a silhouette of a hound, printed in black amidst red cloth and gold accents.

natgeofound: A wrapped juvenile camel rides between packs on a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:02 -0500

natgeofound:

A wrapped juvenile camel rides between packs on a camel’s back in Western Australia, December 1916.
Photograph by C. P. Scott, National Geographic

merlin: gun crazy www.facebook.com/pinupsandbombshells I’m...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:25:00 -0500

merlin:

gun crazy

www.facebook.com/pinupsandbombshells

I’m not gonna lie to you.

One of my very few regrets in life is never having been film-noir-ingly betrayed by a beautiful but duplicitous gun moll.

Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever so much as met a moll.

Really, truthfully, as I sit here today, I don’t think I even know what a “moll” actually is. Or does.

Jesus. What the fuck have I done with my life?

"The purpose of theology - the purpose of any thinking about God - is to make the silences clearer..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:23:50 -0500

“The purpose of theology - the purpose of any thinking about God - is to make the silences clearer and starker to us, to make the unmeaning - by which I mean those aspects of the divine that will not be reduced to human meanings - more irreducible and more terrible, and thus ultimately more wonderful. This is why art is so often better at theology than theology is.”

- Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss, 130. (via invisibleforeigner)

ayjay: Bob Dylan on Saturday Night Live, October 1979. I...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:08:10 -0500

ayjay:

Bob Dylan on Saturday Night Live, October 1979. I seriously doubt that he’s ever done a better performance of that song.

The song, of course, is “Gotta Serve Somebody.”

Ah!

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:52:42 -0500

Ah!

adventuretime: Why ‘Adventure Time’ Is the Best Sci-Fi Show on...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:24:50 -0500

adventuretime:

Why ‘Adventure Time’ Is the Best Sci-Fi Show on TV Right Now

BY ERIC KOHN
MARCH 26, 2013
IndieWire

“Sometimes you love a show so much it can do weird things to your head. I’ve gone out on a limb with Cartoon Network’s ‘Adventure Time’ by deeming it a groundbreaking form of cartoon storytelling that fuses several eras of animation into a delightfully surreal and yet oddly familiar experience…. But after last night’s wonderful flashback special episode, “Simon and Marcy,” I’m convinced of one thing: ‘Adventure Time’ is the best science fiction show on television right now.

(Read the rest of Eric’s piece here.)

Hi, In The Past 2 Years, You Have Allowed Me To Kill 70,000 People | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:03:43 -0500

Hi, In The Past 2 Years, You Have Allowed Me To Kill 70,000 People | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

Damn. Brutal stuff.

ayjay: Albums reimagined as book covers Yes, please.

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:29:02 -0500

ayjay:

Albums reimagined as book covers

Yes, please.

awesomepeoplereading: Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe. Badass.

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:20:02 -0500

awesomepeoplereading:

Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe.

Badass.

theonion: Supreme Court’s Sidekick Kid Justice Killed By Mad...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:12:00 -0500

theonion:

Supreme Court’s Sidekick Kid Justice Killed By Mad Genius Dr. Contempto: Full Report

Brilliant.

EDIT: “Habeus Corpses, Supreme Court!”

"More commas, please."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:19:17 -0500

“More commas, please.”

- Feedback From James Joyce’s Submission of Ulysses to His Creative Writing Workshop. (via millionsmillions)

vintagecoolillustrated: From “If Wishes were Hearses” This...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:02:50 -0500

vintagecoolillustrated:

From “If Wishes were Hearses”

This title is amazing.

vintagecoolillustrated: What I need is a good old fashioned...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:12:39 -0500

vintagecoolillustrated:

What I need is a good old fashioned western fist fight.

The Critic - The Scenes of Orson Welles (by seinfan9)

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:11:00 -0600

The Critic - The Scenes of Orson Welles (by seinfan9)

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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:45:53 -0600

merlin: decryption: • Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe • Nine...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:00:07 -0600

merlin:

decryption:

• Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
• Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

Alt dl: http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/4428136/file.html

Wow, thanks folks!
I should point out carly_rae_reznor had the idea, I just cobbled them together.. http://www.reddit.com/r/mashups/comments/19m1nt/a_request_for_which_i_lack_the_technology/

After 20+ years of hearing Nine Inch Nails, it wasn’t until about four minutes ago that I realized how much Trent Reznor sounds like Ian McCulloch.

Turns. Out.

This is… something amazing.

theonion: Obnoxious Friend Won’t Stop Attaining Major Life...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:49:22 -0600

theonion:

Obnoxious Friend Won’t Stop Attaining Major Life Milestones: Full Report

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:50:17 -0600

"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split."

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:36:06 -0600

“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split.”

- Raymond Chandler, or, why everything you know about grammar may be wrong. (via millionsmillions)