“It was the moment that the man who sang ‘My Way’ realized that pride and love and pain all come in subtler forms and shades.”
Read more from Matt Domino on Frank Sinatra’s album Watertown here.
I’d never really listened to much Sinatra (or liked his music, honestly) but this article made me want to listen to Watertown. And I like it.
Read the article, listen to the album.
Check out this feature of French graphic designer Jean Jullien’s newest work in An Illustrated Guide To Our Maddening Relationship With Tech
You can see more of Jullien’s current show Allo? here.
This is pretty much amazing.
Oh, why do I use my phone for an alarm clock?
“Putting your dreams on hold and doing whatever it takes to pay the rent?”
For most people, that’s less a question than it is a statement.
Winds! are they winds? - Or myriad ghosts, that shriek?…
From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, Boston, 1882.
(Source: archive.org)
“You don’t like the lighthouse, you suck.”
Joseph Heller’s chart outline for Catch-22. Check out the full gallery of Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines.
Child Abuse Billboard Contains ‘Secret Message’ Not Visible to Adults
To try and do more than simply raise awareness of child abuse, the...
What do you hear?
Nothing but the rain.
Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Boom, boom, boom.
— Battlestar Galactica, Miniseries: Part 1
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Henri the Existential Cat waxes philosophical on the price of literary fame.
I was really sure that the title of the new Fast & Furious movie was just going to be six ampersands. Now I owe Dick Cavett $1000, dammit.
