The "L" Words

Books and crafts

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:17:01 -0500

Books and crafts

Old books. New tricks

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:16:30 -0500

Old books. New tricks

Best line to pick up a publishing professional? Yeah. It...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:52 -0500

Best line to pick up a publishing professional? Yeah. It probably is.

galaslaeg: I just have two words for you: GARY OLDMAN. I...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:36:34 -0400

galaslaeg:

I just have two words for you:

GARY OLDMAN.

I watched this about a million times when I was younger.

I know I should pay more attention to the article, but the...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:40:27 -0400

I know I should pay more attention to the article, but the kitten shirt really scares me. I’m afraid to take my eyes off it in case it attacks…

newyorker:

In this week’s issue, we published “Exorcism,” a long-lost play by Eugene O’Neill. Nickolas Muray, who took the portrait of O’Neill that accompanies the play, was, among other things, Frida Kahlo’s lover, a competitor on the U.S. Olympic fencing team, and a photographer known for shots full of life, joy, and color. See a selection here: http://nyr.kr/pKXHB5

All photographs courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.

Photo

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:35:57 -0400

Hmmmm an interesting idea…

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:58:14 -0400

Hmmmm an interesting idea…

Apparently rule of thumb: if it’s bacon…eat it no...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:16:05 -0400

Apparently rule of thumb: if it’s bacon…eat it no matter.

Cheaper By The Dozen - This Week's Hot E-Book Deals in Romance

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:57:41 -0400

Cheaper By The Dozen - This Week's Hot E-Book Deals in Romance

TULIPS!

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:21:06 -0400

TULIPS!

Harlequin for teens. Makes good trailers

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:11:06 -0400

Harlequin for teens. Makes good trailers

The DOCTOR and Craig Ferguson

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:06:49 -0400

The DOCTOR and Craig Ferguson

This shot doesn’t look so much like a Photoshop as it does...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:16:05 -0400

This shot doesn’t look so much like a Photoshop as it does a painting. It generated so much buzz that National Geographic actually had to track down photographer Frans Lanting in Africa to explain what’s going on in his photo for the people calling bullshit.

Basically what you’re seeing behind the trees isn’t the sky, it’s a sand dune (the white blotches are patches of white grass). The colors look off because the photo was taken at dawn, so the orange dune itself was bathed in light, while the foreground was still in shadow (that’s why the white clay of the foreground winds up looking blue, and the trees look like terrifying silhouettes).

newyorker: The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:21:25 -0400

newyorker:

The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All

I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career woman to “relearn” how to seduce a man, and she has to do all sorts of crazy degrading crap, like eat a hot dog in a sexy way or something. And since when does holding a job necessitate that a woman pull her hair back in a severe, tight bun? Do screenwriters think that loose hair makes it hard to concentrate.

- Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor of “The Office”) on one of the many specimens of women who exist in romantic comedies, but do not exist in real life.

Click here for the rest of Mindy’s guide to women in the movies.

"Americans and romance. It’s like watching a bird try to fly with one wing."

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:37:12 -0400

“Americans and romance. It’s like watching a bird try to fly with one wing.”

- Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

Lol cat + bible = epic saga

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:11:05 -0400

Lol cat + bible = epic saga

washingtonpoststyle: In case you missed the sublime Fall TV...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:21:06 -0400

washingtonpoststyle:

In case you missed the sublime Fall TV Preview by our critic Hank Stuever, who sorts new series using one question: Better or worse than dead-average “Pan Am”?

Print design by Kim Vu and Jesse Lenz

Review of Once Upon a Time where Maine is a place where “where happy endings don’t exist and the characters have no memory of who they once were, trapped in humdrum lives.” In winter? Too true. Try it. You’ll see.

“This looks like a bank of escalators seconds before they...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:15:05 -0400

“This looks like a bank of escalators seconds before they were buried under a lava flow, but it’s actually one of about a hundred decorated subway stations under Stockholm, Sweden, where the natural bedrock ceiling has been painted. Each station has its own design, earning them the title of world’s longest art gallery.

Crumbs (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:10:47 -0400

Crumbs (Taken with instagram)

He’s better that way.

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:16:05 -0400

He’s better that way.