All posts tagged with “awesome”


Kay Ryan community college bicycles awesome
I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and with very little financial encouragement — saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.
Kay Ryan (via austinkleon)

Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica science fiction awesome
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All Along the Watchtower — Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Soundtrack

I am a colossal dork. Regardless, this song is awesome and the perfect thing for a Monday morning.


Robin Sloan Annabel Scheme short stories Greek mythology awesome
Robin Sloan (author of Annabel Scheme) has a new multimedia short story up on his web site. The Truth About the East Wind involves words, sounds, and images, and is thoroughly awesome.

Robin Sloan (author of Annabel Scheme) has a new multimedia short story up on his web site. The Truth About the East Wind involves words, sounds, and images, and is thoroughly awesome.


epic awesome funny
As another high school English teacher, here’s my take: Unlike ‘awesome’, ‘epic’ isn’t a particularly useful word in its main sense. (And it never meant “truly amazing.”) When did anyone describe anything as epic besides the Odyssey and the occasional really long movie? As an English teacher, this slang redefinition is a boon. Since ‘epic’ now means “really cool in a beyond-other-things sort of way”, when you do teach a REAL epic, it will automatically be cool, because it is, by definition, epic. And when the kids read it, and realize that what happens to the main character is even more epic than anything they’ve ever called epic, the book will be even better to them.
craigiest on reddit. (via dailymeh)

Flannery O'Connor books peacocks awesome
Flannery O’Connor by Christine Marie Larsen (via walkwhilereading)

Flannery O’Connor by Christine Marie Larsen (via walkwhilereading)


books covers design awesome Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
Terrific cover for a terrific book. A behind-the-scenes look at its creation is here. (via Snarkmarket)

Terrific cover for a terrific book. A behind-the-scenes look at its creation is here. (via Snarkmarket)


birthday cake awesome
I had the most awesome cake for my birthday.

I had the most awesome cake for my birthday.


new media magazines photography awesome Derek Powazek
Strange Light: Photos from the Australian Dust Storm Derek Powazek put together a fantastic collection of images from the Australian dust storm in just 48 hours. He describes here how the magazine came to be. It’s published by the POD company MagCloud. Here’s a cool interactive Flash preview of the finished product. The magazine has also been featured on Time’s web site, in an article which points out MagCloud’s shortcomings (no distribution, long wait times to print and ship copies). It’s an interesting look at where media’s headed. (via Jim Judd)

Strange Light: Photos from the Australian Dust Storm

Derek Powazek put together a fantastic collection of images from the Australian dust storm in just 48 hours. He describes here how the magazine came to be. It’s published by the POD company MagCloud.

Here’s a cool interactive Flash preview of the finished product. The magazine has also been featured on Time’s web site, in an article which points out MagCloud’s shortcomings (no distribution, long wait times to print and ship copies). It’s an interesting look at where media’s headed. (via Jim Judd)


The Moviegoer awesome best of books the South
If a better book than The Moviegoer has been written, I’ll cut off my little toe.
Ada Liana Bidiuc, as quoted in Oxford American’s Best Southern Novels of All Time.

awesome bookstores books

Libraria da Vila bookstore, Sao Paolo

Libraria da Vila bookstore, Sao Paolo

Libraria da Vila bookstore, Sao Paolo

Libraria da Vila bookstore, Sao Paolo

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice

Two different ways to design a bookstore


awesome books dreams libraries Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s bookshelves are full of all kinds of amazing things. Maybe one day I’ll have a library like that myself.

Neil Gaiman’s bookshelves are full of all kinds of amazing things. Maybe one day I’ll have a library like that myself.


The Moviegoer awesome books Walker Percy
In the evenings I usually watch television or go to the movies. Weekends I often spend on the Gulf Coast. Our neighborhood theater in Gentilly has permanent lettering on the front of the marquee reading: Where Happiness Costs So Little. The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
The Moviegoer, natch. “Where Happiness Costs So Little” is such a great line; I’m going to have to use it somewhere. (via The Second Pass)

beatles music interesting awesome
bauldoff: In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures. This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.

bauldoff:

In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures.

This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.


books dodie smith awesome

Just Irresistible: Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle

Tor.com’s Jo Walton writes on how much she loves Dodie Smith’s first novel.

I Capture the Castle is one of the best books about how people form relationships I’ve ever read, and it has one of the best first person voices in the history of the universe.

I read I Capture the Castle last fall on Ashley’s advice. It really is a delightful book — and one that everyone should read.


pushing daisies television awesome

Pushing Daisies returns on October 1. I cannot wait.