I just found an eyegasm goldmine.

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Botafogo Bay and Rio de Janeiro at night, September 1920.

Taken by Carlos Bippus, National Geographic

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I'm potentially going to be up all night looking at these again and again, much to the boyfriend's chagrin.

"My living legend is probably someone like Lydia Lunch, same age as me, but who ran away to NYC years prior (1974/5) and walked directly up to Wayne County and introduced herself. Also certainly John Lydon for reasons completely apparent by watching his confrontations with ding dong culture and media twerps."

- Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore wins the Living Legend Award

This is my life.

"Literary influence is like genetics, too. Rushdie got some of his fireworks from Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. García Márquez got things from Kafka and Faulkner. So, with Middlesex, you could say I inherited traits from all these ancestors, not to mention good old Homer. But some of my stuff bears no relation to these writers. Different gene pool entirely.

Influence isn’t just a matter of copying someone or learning his or her tricks. You get influenced by writers whose work gives you hints about your own abilities and inclinations. Being influenced is largely a process of self-discovery. What you have to do is put all your influences into the blender and arrive at your own style and vision."

- Jeffrey Eugenides

Michelle Hinebrook

I should be doing work, but...

These are too cool.

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