Shay Totten

bookriot:

Movies starring books are the best movies. Here are 17 of them!

explore-blog:

When André was 12, he was already over 6 feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. He was too big to fit on the local school bus and his family didn’t have the money to buy a car that could deal with his weight if it drove him to and from school.

Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize winner (literature) and esteemed playwright, probably most noted for Waiting for Godot, bought some land in 1953 near a hamlet around forty miles northeast of Paris and built a cottage for himself with the help of some locals. One of the locals that helped him build the cottage was a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff, who Beckett befriended and would sometimes play cards with. As you might’ve been able to guess, Rousimoff’s son was André the Giant, and when Beckett found out that Rousimoff was having trouble getting his son to school, Beckett offered to drive André to school in his truck — a vehicle that could fit André — to repay Rousimoff for helping to build Beckett’s cottage. Adorably, when André recounted the drives with Beckett, he revealed they rarely talked about anything other than cricket.

Who knew

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luckypeach:

Here’s the cover of the next issue. It’ll be arriving in mailboxes and bookstores over the next couple weeks. Inside you’ll find a massive interview with a little-known writer named Michael Pollan, a comic collaboration from Tony Bourdain and Tim Lane, stories of werebeavers, and all manner of strangeness and grossness you expect from us taken to apocalyptic extremes.

Issues will be available at all your favorite stores that sell printed things. Or you could cop a copy direct from us here.

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cartoonstudies:

Giving these away free at our Holiday Open House on December 7th!

upwithchris:

Washington seems obsessed with the deficit, and is focused almost exclusively on spending cuts. But new taxes on things like carbon or financial transactions could cover the entirety of the cuts lawmakers say are needed to reduce the deficit.

A carbon tax, for example, could generate $1.2 trillion over ten years, which could,by itself, pay for the entirety of the sequester cuts that will take place on January 1st.

And a tax on financial transactions could generate $350 billion over nine years, which would surpass the projected savings from cuts to Medicare by President Obama last year, which would amount to only $320 billion.

(Source: upwithsteve, via bostonreview)