Monday, February 12, 2024
Questions of authenticity were central to antebellum American culture. In a market economy dependent on merchants and banks, Americans struggled to separate genuine currency from "bogus" money, legal title from fraudulent land claims, and creditworthy individuals from confidence men and failures. Antebellum Americans vexed by counterfeit currency also encountered mesmeric healers, skull-studying phrenologists, and spiritualist mediums who claimed a scientific basis for their innovative practices. Thus, it is not surprising that many Americans also debated the genuineness or fraudulency of the prophets and preachers that dotted the religious landscape.
— John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Dental hygiene and wanting to get somewhere are the most common reasons why mice would chew wires or cables.
— Google's featured snippet from adamspestcontrol.com after google search of "mouse eat wires"
Saturday, February 10, 2024
The magazine’s business team had conducted a survey of what allowed small businesses to survive in the long term. One thing they all had in common: they owned their buildings.
— Nicolas Kemper, A new home for the New York Review of Books," New York Review of Architecture
Friday, February 9, 2024
Twain wrote this mild burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time in three weeks, trying to alleviate some serious financial problems.
— Item description, "Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Tom Sawyer Detective. As Told by Huck Finn and Other Tales. London: Chatto & Windus, 1897." Johnson County Museum, “Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction,” The Grolier Club
Thursday, February 8, 2024
At first I thought a few stones of each different shape would be enough. But then I understood in their thousands they give a sense of community. For me the quantity is sacred. It takes a lot to build a cathedral.
— Luigi Lineri via @lostfoundartny
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Speculative tote bag.
— Ian Erickson
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Frank has also designed many of the secure checks that banks and Fortune 500 companies use every day
— Title card, Catch Me If You Can
Monday, February 5, 2024
It was black type on red paper, you know, and they send it like that so you can't copy it.
— Robert Downey Jr., "Robert Downey Jr. & Mark Ruffalo | Actors on Actors"
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Come back to visit.
— Tom (probably paraphrased)
Saturday, February 3, 2024
“I just want a reaction,” he said.
— Callie Holtermann, "394 Hot Dog Ice Sculptures Later, He Quit His Day Job," The New York Times
Friday, February 2, 2024
6/4/13
— Date on tracing paper
Thursday, February 1, 2024
It's my artwork.
— Carlo Ferraris when I asked what the coins in the wall were
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Oh! I think I won the golden ticket.
— Lily seeing heart shaped Cheerios
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
I can help you with that.
— Best Buy employee
Monday, January 29, 2024
The Boston Public Library gives you $20 of free printing every month.
Black and white pages are 20 cents per page.
Color prints are 75 cents per page.
— @onlyinbos
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Bookmark
By Russell Weekes
This bookmark can also be folded and used to temporarily fix a wobbly table or chair.
— @temporaryunit
Saturday, January 27, 2024
@godisstupidsexyflanders But they make a great cup
— @jerrysaltz reply to @godisstupidsexyflanders
comment "buccees donated money to the governor of Texas that is anti abortion and the company is very right wing" on @calebwsimpson's Instagram video tour of Jerry Saltz's appartment where he shows a Buc-ee's cup
Friday, January 26, 2024
cast in order of height
— Opening credits for The Bed-Sitting Room via @celestefichter
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Yeah nowadays he couldn't do that lmao
— @_martillo._ comment on @welcome.jpeg "Bruce Gilden’s close-up approach to street photography give his images a degree of intimacy and directness that have become a signature in his work. In the first two slides, Bruce describes his process and what he looks for when taking photos."
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
once grandpa told me he doesn't remember books he's read
which helped me realize i could technically have read every book
— Lily in a text
