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"Someday the sun will die and then the human race will end and I’ll still be texting to see if that other party is better/ Do you want to leave soon?/ No/I want enough time to be in love with everything…and I cry because everything is so beautiful/and so short."
Congrats Williams grads!
(Source: cheaptime, via windandsalt)
Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88
“Mr. Fussell brought an erudition, a gift for readable prose, a willingness to offend and, as many critics noted, a whiff of snobbery to subjects like class, clothing, the dumbing down of American culture and the literature of travel.”
RIP to the esteemed former ConnColl professor
(Source: inthecac)
Nalgene: check. American short story collection: check. Rooftop terrace in our nation’s great capital: check.
Kick it off right.
Drive SAFE this summer!
We hope that your summers are full of fun plans, requiring multiple trips to the beach house and back, long drives to ambiguously indie music festivals, and miraculous sibling harmony on the way to grandpa’s house golf course.
That said, we hope you will STAY SAFE enough to make it back in the fall to see the foliage.
Here are HowStuffWorks’ top 10 driving safety tips:
1. Make sure your car is up to date (oil, brakes, full tank—you know the drill)
2. Tone down the aggression (they can’t hear you anyway)
3. Watch out for the other guy (We’re idiots!)
4. Don’t tailgate (not worth being on the phone with the insurance company by any means)
5. Be careful in bad weather (If you’re on foot in the rain wear Hunters, if you’re in a car—switch on your lights and slow the fuck down)
6. Wear your seatbelt (duh)
7. Don’t drive drowsy (Pull over and take a nap!)
8. Avoid distractions (Don’t text, seriously. If it’s that important pull over!)
9. Don’t speed (Leave early.)
10. Don’t drink and drive (No-brainer, give your keys to a DD or stay put for the night.)
(Source: inthecac)
Not left by a Batesie, but nonetheless intriguing…
(via kayyyak)
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According to a report from Russia Today, Pavel Durov, owner and CEO of the popular Russian social networking site VKontakte, the 27-year-old millionaire threw paper planes made out of 5,000 ruble notes from his office window over the weekend.
In total, Durov threw out $2,000 worth of money onto a crowd of people in central St. Petersburg. Not surprisingly, a fight broke out among the throng of people clutching for the bills.
"(Source: inthecac)
We plead “sustainability”
Peter Carl Fabergé, the subject of Wednesday’s Google doodle, created elaborate and opulent Fabergé eggs. These jeweled works of art have become so famous that it’s easy to forget that they started out as Easter eggs.
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