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writepudding:

Straight from Serbia.

If you speak Polish, it takes you about two lines before you realize you don’t understand her. Unless you speak Serbian, of course.

4 weeks ago 3 notes
2012

2012

1 month ago 1 notes
Tagged with:  #new year's
View from my kitchen window this morning

View from my kitchen window this morning

1 month ago
Tagged with:  #snow  #śnieg  #neige  #hó  #снег

(Source: existentialistmumbojumbo, via thewaytosuckaflan)

1 month ago 30 notes
Context

Context

1 month ago
forlackofabettercomic: It’s honestly hard to believe that he is a real person sometimes

forlackofabettercomic:

It’s honestly hard to believe that he is a real person sometimes

1 month ago 14376 notes
nprfreshair: Louis CK: “My daughters, I think they really enjoy what I do. There are certainly some things they can’t see in Louie because … the language is grown-up, and is for adults. They know that. They get it. I’ve played them some George Carlin clips that have cursing in them. I explain it to my kids that some people get uncomfortable or their feelings get hurt by certain words, so you want to respect that in regular life, but there is a reason for these words. They’re not just ‘bad.’ So I’m bringing them along. They’ll see this stuff when it’s appropriate to see it.”

nprfreshair:

Louis CK: “My daughters, I think they really enjoy what I do. There are certainly some things they can’t see in Louie because … the language is grown-up, and is for adults. They know that. They get it. I’ve played them some George Carlin clips that have cursing in them. I explain it to my kids that some people get uncomfortable or their feelings get hurt by certain words, so you want to respect that in regular life, but there is a reason for these words. They’re not just ‘bad.’ So I’m bringing them along. They’ll see this stuff when it’s appropriate to see it.”

1 month ago 285 notes
NPR: Russia By Rail: Getting Into Hot Water NPR used a picture I took on the Trans-Siberian in their series on rail travel in Russia. Woohoo!

NPR: Russia By Rail: Getting Into Hot Water

NPR used a picture I took on the Trans-Siberian in their series on rail travel in Russia.

Woohoo!

1 month ago 7 notes
Tagged with:  #kipiatok  #samovar  #transsiberian  #npr

This version makes so much more sense than the original.

1 month ago 2 notes
"I don’t have a lucid memory of what the world was like in 1999; it seems more distant to me than 1989, for whatever reason. I do know music was still selling like crazy, though: Total album sales in ’99 were 940 million. What was playing on the radio still mattered, and most of it was mainstream alternative rock or Santana’s ”Supernatural”. There was a certain kind of semi-heavy, quasi-spiritual, midtempo track that could be three years old but still get endless airplay— Creed’s “My Own Prison” was omnipresent at the bars and malls and Applebee’s I was frequenting at the time. The most popular single in the world was “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay. There were a lot of bands who selected random numerical names on purpose (Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Seven Mary Three), and there were a lot of people trying to convince themselves that a double album by Nine Inch Nails wasn’t ridiculous. Two disposable teens killed a bunch of beautiful people in suburban Colorado for reasons completely unrelated to Marilyn Manson, but traffic at Hot Topic improved nonetheless. Meanwhile, I was storing potable water and Oreo cookies in my hall closet; I was obsessed with Y2K, which negatively impacted my interest in things like TLC. At the time, TLC was advising me not to hang around with scrubs. This was kind of like their advice from 1994 about not chasing waterfalls. I never got that. Why not chase waterfalls? They’re so easy to chase. It would have been far more sensible if deceased arsonist Lisa Left Eye had told me not to chase something dangerous, like wildebeests. “Don’t go chasing wildebeests.” It was that kind of millennium. People cared about shit, but not really."
- Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur
1 month ago 3 notes

A Köztársaság Bandája - Szakítás

I have not yet been to Budapest this year, but it looks I might make it by New Years.

1 month ago 1 notes

Tagged with:  #magyarország  #lengyel magyar két jó barát  #népzene  #világzene

(Source: bnguyenphoto)

1 month ago 13 notes

I’m translating a book about the Caucasus. This will be my soundtrack for the next two weeks.

2 months ago 11 notes

Tagged with:  #juno reactor  #armenia  #caucasus  #paradzhanov

Shalom, motherf*ckers

shitmystudentswrite:

Our house was a constant target for drive-by shootings and mazel tov cocktails.

2 months ago 1009 notes
fuckyeahquebec: Actually, au grand dam de the most ardent and parochial defenders of the French language in Quebec, you still find “Stop” and “Arrêt Stop” signs in municipalities like Westmount, Que., and places like Dorval Airport. They even figure in the official road code book. Indeed, Quebec is only de juré unilingual French - and even then only for things regulated by the provincial government. Otherwise, the province is de facto as multilingual as anywhere else in Canada, if not more so. I actually like the spelling “fearsly” - you serendipitously managed to sum that up very poetically. Nice photo too (Dorchester Square, Montreal.) #Actually #Quebec #French #NeverEndingStory alexanderjebradley: ARRÊT - Quebéc Quebéc, Canada’s largest and 2nd most populous province, is the only unilingual french speaking province in Canada.  Although voting down an independence referendum twice, the québécoise, fearsly independent in spirit and mindset, were in 2006 recognised as “a nation within a united Canada” by the Canadian House of Commons.  Stop signs within the province are written “Arrêt” in French, despite the fact that both Stop and Arrêt are considered valid French words according to the Office québécoise de la langue française.  Ironically, stop signs in France read “Stop”, leading to the quip “Quebéc: More french than the french”.

fuckyeahquebec:

Actually, au grand dam de the most ardent and parochial defenders of the French language in Quebec, you still find “Stop” and “Arrêt Stop” signs in municipalities like Westmount, Que., and places like Dorval Airport. They even figure in the official road code book. Indeed, Quebec is only de juré unilingual French - and even then only for things regulated by the provincial government. Otherwise, the province is de facto as multilingual as anywhere else in Canada, if not more so.

I actually like the spelling “fearsly” - you serendipitously managed to sum that up very poetically. Nice photo too (Dorchester Square, Montreal.)

#Actually #Quebec #French #NeverEndingStory

alexanderjebradley:

ARRÊT - Quebéc

Quebéc, Canada’s largest and 2nd most populous province, is the only unilingual french speaking province in Canada.  Although voting down an independence referendum twice, the québécoise, fearsly independent in spirit and mindset, were in 2006 recognised as “a nation within a united Canada” by the Canadian House of Commons.  Stop signs within the province are written “Arrêt” in French, despite the fact that both Stop and Arrêt are considered valid French words according to the Office québécoise de la langue française.  Ironically, stop signs in France read “Stop”, leading to the quip “Quebéc: More french than the french”.

2 months ago 38 notes