Wednesday, August 16, 2023
When he couldn't get an appointment with Walt, he painted him a giant letter—twenty by twenty-four feet—in which he requested an interview and had it sent special delivery. Walt capitulated, granted him an interview, and then hired him a few days later.
— Neal Gabler, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Model coal mine cart made of coal
— Object description in the Maude Abbott Medical Museum
Monday, August 14, 2023
I think it'd be funny if you set up an underwater TV in there and played a Christopher Nolan movie.
— Lily on the St. Lawrence tank in the Montreal Biodome
Sunday, August 13, 2023
What looks like half a doctor? The other half of a doctor.
— Overheard joke told by a kid at Walt's Diner
Saturday, August 12, 2023
So fish are like melons.
— Lily after Max said that birds spread fish eggs
Friday, August 11, 2023
But once again money was not his only or perhaps even greatest consideration. Walt harbored two impulses that often warred: the go-getting impulse to succeed, which could be certified by money and recognition, and the deeper psychological impulse to control, which could be satisfied only by making his films exactly as he wanted to make them without interference.
— Neal Gabler, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Book of the week: Swimmers by Larry Sultan
— @johnmotoole
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
On display are the LEGO Unitron Crater Cruiser, LEGO Aquanaut Crystal Crawler, and LEGO Aquashark Barracuda Deep Sea Predator. These sets were put together by Sean Svadlenak, and they were left as he built them. He chose to have them be a collector's item instead of taking them apart and playing with the pieces separately.
— Item description, "LEGO in the 1990s," Johnson County Museum
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Not exactly what you're looking for, but there's also a 1850 book that Google has scanned that typographically reproduces gravestones in the Pioneer Valley of MA called "Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in the Grave Yards of Northampton"
— @mollyrideout comment on @bibliophagist's post, "Can anybody out there point me to a paper or chapter about typographic representations of gravestones in early-ish American lit?"
Monday, August 7, 2023
With such a large collection, rather than capture a moment in time, you see history play out over time, you get depth, personality, tragity, victory, and extensive context.
— Nathan Raab, The Hunt for History
Sunday, August 6, 2023
God damn it.
— J*
Saturday, August 5, 2023
This is how I approached the most challenging element of the business: what gives something value.
— Nathan Raab, The Hunt for History
Friday, August 4, 2023
And this smuckers is just a prop. You don't have to use it, but feel free if you want to.
— Waiter at C As In Charlie on the "Charlie’s Deli Bagel" dessert
Thursday, August 3, 2023
He is going to finish the Big Hike in 1920, and then he is going to settle down and write a book of everything and everybody he has seen—a "regular" book of travels. He has letters from churches, universities and schools to show that he has delivered some excellent lectures about people and customs of the earth. That is one way he manages to keep the wolf away.
— "Slav Is Walking To Write A Book," Arkansas Democrat, Wed, Sep 6, 1916
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
It would be easy to blame bad distribution or a poor release date, he told The Hollywood Reporter, but "obviously, the picture was not in tune with our audience completely, or they would have found us wherever we were."
— Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
A zoo in China is denying claims that its rare Sun Bear is just a human in a bear costume
— @fuckjerry
Monday, July 31, 2023
One of our own film critics, Bilge Ebiri, has seen the 2021 Peter Dinklage-staring musical Cyrano at least nine times. He's seen Oppenheimer, released one week ago, sevent times — so far. His rewatching method began as a teen with VHS. "Movies have always felt closer to music to me than to books or plays," Bilge says. "How can you love something and only ever want to experience it once?"
— @nymag
Sunday, July 30, 2023
One of my favorite things is calling bird's beaks mouths.
— Lily
Saturday, July 29, 2023
“The artist,” he writes in one of the most frequently quoted passages, “usually sets out — or used to — to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist’s and the tale’s. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.”
— A.O. Scott, "Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did," The New York Times
Friday, July 28, 2023
Cora's juice.
— Cora
