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I don’t know. The magic may well be gone when some kid watching you hang upside down 60 hours straight zones out to his Girl Talk playlist.

(via NYMag)

Conversations overheard on New York elevators at different times, on different days.

This has gotta be lifted from The Jeffersons.

Excerpted from Ernie Hudson’s memoir “Ghosts I Am Afraid Of.”

Chapter 3

“I had been past 8 hours in the well. I could tell by the movement of the sun. The sun. I had traced its declining path this entire time, incapable as I was of viewing it beyond perception, like some tenant of an old faith, but as it began to set it was suddenly removed and in its wake was the warm face of Ray Parker Jr.’s father, Ray Parker Sr. It was my first run-in with a family I came to know in time as my own.”

You felt it. I did too. Summer bye-bye. It happens that fast and in no time flat you go from margaritas outdoors to posing for the cover of the “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album. It’s not even my favorite season but neither was that Season 5 of The Wire. Don’t mean I won’t miss it. As a tribute, pictures of girls at the beach.

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(via buddyhead)

The new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

(Gold medal winner Yelena Isinbayeva)

• The Adorable

(The Sartorialist)

An algorithm from my email inbox:

ASSURED VENTURE.
You may be skeptical or apprehensive receiving this
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we have not met before, I am Mr. Patrick K.W. Chan
(Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer) of the
Hang Seng Bank
Ltd., I have a business proposition involving
huge sum of money in my
bank which I know will be of mutual
benefit of us,and I believe we can
handle it together,
once we have a common understanding and mutual
cooperation in
the execution of this modalities.
I shall furnish you
with more informations about this operation
when l receive your reply.
Should you be interested,
please send me those informations 1.Full
names, 2.Age
3.Occupation, 4.Private phone number,5.Current residential
address.
Via this email address; chan_kwpatck@yahoo.com.hk

“Keeping your grip is the hardest part,” she said. “It’s really easy to slide downward.”

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Chinese Aerobic pole dancer
3. Tyra Banxxx

Answer

Estelle Getty, dead.

Not dead, gay irony.