Runaway Apricot

infinitenap: sigh why I just read the Wikipedia page on...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:22:19 -0400

sigh

why I just read the Wikipedia page on possessive determiners…

To be great at your job, you have to embrace the grind. By...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:46:00 -0400

To be great at your job, you have to embrace the grind. By ‘grind’ I mean a combination of work ethic and improvised strategy that becomes a daily ritual, and ensures progression or improvement over time, regardless of an individual day or even week’s outcome. - Joey Roth

dahlea: sassy giraffe be like aw hell no Arch your back…

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:54:11 -0400

dahlea:

sassy giraffe be like aw hell no

Arch your back…

West door, @RiversideNYC

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:46:26 -0400

West door, @RiversideNYC

Pete Wells, New York Times Restaurant Critic Responds to Readers' Questions

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:25:59 -0400

Q. Do you think we in America have taken the food culture too far where we care and think too much about eating and making really great and unique food? I have read some critiques making this point and was wondering your thoughts.

— Dan, Washington, D.C.

A. I’ve read a few of those criticisms, too, and I have found them as puzzling as their authors seem to find food culture. They tend to start well, because they’re mocking the excesses of people who take food too seriously. It’s easy to mock people who take anything too seriously. That’s why mockery was invented. But when the mockery ends, the pieces I’ve read eventually grow indignant at the very idea that people care about something as insignificant as pleasure. Pleasure is only insignificant if you’re not having any, and I have started to suspect that the people who write these critiques are just upset because everybody else is having too much fun. And then I start to feel sorry for them, and want to send them a dozen cookies from Beurre & Sel in the Essex Street Market. But then I decide that cookies would be wasted on people who don’t know how to have a good time.

landscapepalettes: rovalbar project reward

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:22:22 -0500

landscapepalettes:

rovalbar project reward

Michelle Williams - working it! I would be scared...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:06:15 -0500

Michelle Williams - working it! I would be scared senseless…

That time Michelle Obama was like, “Oooo I’m REALLY...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:30:29 -0500

That time Michelle Obama was like, “Oooo I’m REALLY scared.”

buzzfeed: Chris Christie is the dad from Dinosaurs. It cannot...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:29:32 -0500

buzzfeed:

Chris Christie is the dad from Dinosaurs. It cannot be unseen.

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:29:20 -0500

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

- George Washington Carver, quoted in the documentary “A Man Named Pearl”

Jean-Michele Basquiat - Genius Child

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:25:19 -0500

Genius Child

Langston Hughes

This is a song for the genius child.
Sing it softly, for the song is wild.
Sing it softly as ever you can -
Lest the song get out of hand.

Nobody loves a genius child.

Can you love an eagle,
Tame or wild?
Can you love an eagle,
Wild or tame?
Can you love a monster
Of frightening name?

Nobody loves a genius child.

Kill him - and let his soul run wild.

"And one of the worst things you can do as a host is to show you’re worried. Is the fish..."

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:59:00 -0500

““And one of the worst things you can do as a host is to show you’re worried. Is the fish overcooked? Is the wine too warm? Is the beef too rare? If you show that you’re worried, then everybody feels uncomfortable. This is what I learned from Julia Child. You know, she would drop her roast chicken on the floor, but did she scream? Did she cry or panic? No, she just calmly picked the chicken off the floor and managed to keep her smile. Playing the cello is the same way. I will make a mistake on the stage. And you know what? I welcome that first mistake because then I can shrug it off and keep smiling. Then I can get on with the performance and turn off that part of the mind that judges everything. I’m not thinking or worrying anymore. And it’s when I’m least conscious of what I’m doing, when I’m just lost in the emotion of the music, that I’m performing at my best.”

- Yo Yo Ma, in “Imagine: How Creativity Works” by Jonah Lehrer

Barack Obama Being Adorable with Adorable Children

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:44:02 -0500

alexleo:

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kanyewesanderson: Fantastic Mr. Fox / Gold Digger

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:59:11 -0400

kanyewesanderson:

Fantastic Mr. Fox / Gold Digger

Photo

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:44:50 -0400

Photo

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:21:13 -0400

"No! You watch. Gives me a thrill to be looked at."

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:04:25 -0400

“No! You watch. Gives me a thrill to be looked at.”

- - Will Smith on cleaning up after dinner, Six Degrees of Separation

"A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his..."

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:30:31 -0400

“A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his limited medium.”

- Henri Matisse

Photo

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:41:36 -0400

"Every woman in her secret heart believes herself to be a potential interior decorator, but usually..."

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:14:10 -0400

“Every woman in her secret heart believes herself to be a potential interior decorator, but usually when she gets started, she loses her nerve…She becomes confused by the great variety of material that confronts her when she shops. She loses confidence, becomes timid, and falls back on the drab and mediocre because she is afraid of doing wrong.”

- Dorothy Draper quoting Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. in her 1939 book, Decorating Is Fun!