fragments + run-ons

theatlantic:

What Mark Zuckerberg Could’ve Bought With $1 Billion

• Instagram 
• The entire New York Times, says Reuters’ Jack Shafer
• The ability to buy out New York Times CEO Janet Robinson 42 times
• 800 of AOL’s Microsoft’s patents
• Roughly 1,250 GSA West Coast Conferences
• Shell’s Debt on Iranian Oil
• The cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease
• Solo Cups (the company) 
• The amount BP has pledged toward Gulf Restoration
• A better 911 program in New York City
• Soccer team Real Madrid’s Island in the UAE
• The winnings of every Powerball jackpot in 2007
• 45% of a B-2 Bomber
• 68 Lebron Jameses , 40 Kobe Bryants, and 83 Albert Pujolses
• All of J.Lo’s love (it’s gratis!)

the typographic dating game →

Homecoming

by Tishani Doshi

I forgot how Madras loves noise —
loves neighbours and pregnant women
and Gods and babies

and Brahmins who rise 
like fire hymns to sear the air 
with habitual earthquakes.

How funeral processions clatter
down streets with drums and rose-petals,
dancing death into deafness.

How vendors and cats make noises
of love on bedroom walls and alleyways
of night, operatic and dark.

How cars in reverse sing Jingle Bells
and scooters have larynxes of lorries.
How even colour can never be quiet.

How fisherwomen in screaming red —
with skirts and incandescent third eyes
and bangles like rasping planets

and Tamil women on their morning walks
in saris and jasmine and trainers
can shred the day and all its skinny silences.

I forgot how a man dying under the body
of a tattered boat could ask for promises;
how they could be as soundless as the sea

on a wounded day, altering the ground 
of the earth as simply as the sun filtering through —
the monsoon rain dividing everything.

la mer de pianos

(via roundmonkey)

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

— Jhumpa Lahiri on sentences

warbyparker:

Identity Crisis by Mason Phillips.

I love what immigrants can do with language. They can take what you’ve heard a thousand times and say it in a new way, which is what writers are essentially trying to do with every sentence.

— Novelist Alex Gilvarry

This machine prints books on demand. →

Everything about this.

Cupcake ATM.

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had

(Source: newyorker.com)

averymonsen:

All My Friends Are STILL Dead: THE GIVEAWAY!

All My Friends Are Dead now has a SEQUEL! It’s called All My Friends Are STILL Dead and it just came out a few days ago. To celebrate, we’re doing a giveaway. Here’s what you’ll get:

1. One signed copy of All My Friends Are Dead
2. One signed copy of All My Friends Are STILL Dead
3. One dinosaur toy
4. One All My Friends Are Dead t-shirt (printed on American Apparel, sizes and colors listed here)
5. One set of All My Friends Are Still Dead TEMPORARY TATTOOS!!!
6. One nice note from Avery and Jory, the authors

This is over $60 of awesome stuff, and some priceless stuff, too. ALL FREE FOR YOU! So what do you have to do to win it?

Just REBLOG THIS POST and DO NOT ERASE ANY TEXT. It’s as easy as that.

The contest will go until March 31st, and then I’ll randomly select THREE WINNERS from the list of rebloggers. That’s right: YOU’VE GOT THREE CHANCES TO WIN. So click REBLOG and enjoy All My Friends Are Still Dead.

if y’all haven’t read this book yet, your life is not complete.

Mildly terrified by this 1969 chocolate commercial featuring Salvador Dali. via