December 2010
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await...”
– T.S. Eliot
“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Desire (via)
“There are two ways to hold hands: with evenly interlocked fingers, and by...”
– John Erhardt, All My Friends Are Your Friends But I Just Want You (via)
WatchI usually don’t venture out to any kind of shopping area in the last few weeks of December, but I’m glad Tyson Williams shot this video to give us an idea of what it was like on Boxing Day:
Boxing Day Madness overtook the city yesterday, so I have decided to illustrate it by shooting a time-lapse with miniature effect video of the masses franticly shopping at the Eaton Centre,...
WatchI usually don’t venture out to any kind of shopping area in the last few weeks of December, but I’m glad Tyson Williams shot this video to give us an idea of what it was like on Boxing Day:
Boxing Day Madness overtook the city yesterday, so I have decided to illustrate it by shooting a time-lapse with miniature effect video of the masses franticly shopping at the Eaton Centre,...
“There are two ways to hold hands: with evenly interlocked fingers, and by...”
– John Erhardt, All My Friends Are Your Friends But I Just Want You (via)
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great...”
– Dean Koontz (via)
WatchThe Beauty of Pixar (via): a gorgeous mash-up of Pixar films, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what...”
– Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger (via)
“Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling...”
– One Tree Hill (via)
“There is something about the absence of someone after a breakup or the end of a...”
– Anaïs Escobar (via chrstn)
WatchPosted to the New York Times video page a couple of days ago:
Two New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment.
This makes me so happy. People are good, at their core. This proves it.
“Contrary to what the cynics say, distance is not for the fearful, it is for the...”
– Unknown (via)
“When you’re a kid, it’s simple. Christmas is magic. It’s a time of miracles,...”
– The Wonder Years (via)
“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them,...”
– J. D. Salinger (via)
“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them,...”
– J. D. Salinger (via)
“Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten...”
– Wayne Dyer (via)
Ice Cream.
Apparently, in Glasgow in the 1980s, ice cream trucks were more nefarious than we would think:
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were a turf war like any other. Operators of rival ice cream trucks, aiming to seize control of more lucrative areas and likely using the innocence of ice cream as a cover for illicit firearms and drug dealing, took to arms. Given the venue, the back-and-forth was...
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via)
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via)
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via)
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via)