The pain and joy of being a Vlad fan.
Writers for comedian Sid Caesar included Mel Brooks (front, lower right) and Neil Simon (back row, upper left corner.) Both Brooks and Simon are featured on a new DVD release featuring Caesar’s writers telling jokes and stories.
Avengers trailer: one of the only things that could make me miss being 12
I don’t have a particular stake in this - no deep Marvel loyalty or anything - but this trailer reminds me of how great it was to really, really, really want to see a movie. I’m looking forward to it (surprisingly so), but if I was 12, I would be downright jittery. I wouldn’t be able to think about other things for very long without wasting a few brain cells pining for a movie that wouldn’t be in theaters for long, agonizing MONTHS.
Of course, I was pretty excited about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but that may have been because 1) the competition was pretty slack, and 2) I loved the book.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (via wadasaurus)
“A stray dog becomes a mad dog.”
Stray Dog, dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1949
One of my all-time favorites.
Always remember, wherever you go…there you are.
Just don’t forget to stop and look around.
Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
Osho (via semperaugustus)
(Source: nirvikalpa)
He didn’t exactly make it to the top; it would be more accurate to say that he made it somewhere, and then declared the top to be where he was.
Taltos by Steven Brust (via fromanydirection)
The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool. And that works all the way from the external trappings to the level of metaphor, subtext, and the way one uses words. The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
Steven Brust (via saberfangs)
I’m kind of a sucker for this.
(Source: phasesofblue)
