James Brotheridge Falls Behind
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.
George R.R. Martin
[when asked if he was going to let any Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire characters live] (via booksandhotchocolate)
mlb:

Hey, bro, get out of my way.

You put two brothers in the outfield and you’re just counting the days until this happens.

mlb:

Hey, bro, get out of my way.

You put two brothers in the outfield and you’re just counting the days until this happens.

ssk-analogmedium:

theladybrain:

FUCK YES!!!

sick

One of Urrego’s employees, Myrtle Dobler, 23, also acknowledged that finely dressed women schlepping feces and urine to actual toilets is ‘not an ideal solution.’ But, she said, ‘We will show the city we want something to change.’

You know its desperate when business owners are willing to maintain outhouses rather than deal with sports fans doing bathroom stuff in their back alleys.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/causing-a-stink/Content?oid=17004826

We allowed to say this stuff?” David whispered quietly to his mirror-image brother.

Ryan, not one to hold back on the mound when he is pitching either, shrugged and then ‘fessed up:

“The day David was supposed to have his highway driving test, he had something he had to attend for baseball and I didn’t. I’d already passed my test, so I went and drove. They had no idea.

These two were both drafted by the Texas Rangers today. Biogenesis, step aside.

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/sports/college/twins-powering-cedarville-baseball/nXdpJ/

jessethorn:

DON’T BE DUMB REGINA
jeannetto:

Graham Clark will be in Regina, Saskatchewan and you’re allowed to go see him.


Jesse Thorn says so.

jessethorn:

DON’T BE DUMB REGINA

jeannetto:

Graham Clark will be in Regina, Saskatchewan and you’re allowed to go see him.

Jesse Thorn says so.

Kirk was particularly dead that day; I remember because everyone was crying and the science woman kept all of her clothes on. As is my habit, I injected several of Khan’s more personal fluids (super-fluids, if you’ll pardon the medical terminology) into the tribble to see what would happen.

The tribble returned almost immediately to life. I remember because I thought to myself, “Ah, I seem to have conquered death. Tremendous,” at the time.

As a doctor, this made my job a great deal easier.

Oh just so you know, Mallory Ortberg and I wrote a very important Star Trek: Into Darkness fan fiction about the “real” ending that “they” don’t want you to know about. (via joshreads)
Mr. Obama also expresses exasperation. In private, he has talked longingly of “going Bulworth,” a reference to a little-remembered 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a senator who risked it all to say what he really thought.

NYTimes.com.

“going Bulworth”

(via nedhepburn)

DO IT.

DO IT.

DO IT.

(via apoplecticskeptic)

I know ODB died, but what happened to Mya and Pras?

(via shorterexcerpts)
“First of all, if you have the Pocket Books edition I have, you will veil the monstrous, abominable, criminal, foul, vile, youth-depraving jacket — or better say straightjacket.”

— Nabokov, from Lectures on Literature

“First of all, if you have the Pocket Books edition I have, you will veil the monstrous, abominable, criminal, foul, vile, youth-depraving jacket — or better say straightjacket.”

— Nabokov, from Lectures on Literature