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Gonna drink a whole pot of coffee just to feel something

When Maurice Sendak Created a Dark Nutcracker Ballet Tchaikovsky’s famous score remained in place, but Sendak and Stowell ducked the source material for, well, more source material.

When Maurice Sendak Created a Dark Nutcracker Ballet

Pumpkin Spice-a-Roni

Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever” The writer worried that the story was “too niche, too odd,” the crime of flower theft “too minor.” To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.

Susan Orlean’s profile of an orchid poacher, published in this magazine in 1995, inspired Charlie Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation.” Jennifer Wilson reflects on Orlean’s stormy, sensual prose. #NewYorker100

You can train your whole life and achieve your dream of winning olympic gold but nothing can prepare you for the moment you try to get out of an Adirondack chair.

I am working out of a different space today and there's an unattended drum kit just sitting here and I am being SO STRONG

This piece describes what I think was the most impressive feature of the post-storm crisis in Asheville: our local government's commitment to calmly delivering detailed technical updates about the water system to the public, every single day over the radio. 2/n

I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down

A really great piece about the aftermath of Helene, from a writer in my neighborhood.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/m...

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

St. Peter: Why should I let you into heaven?

Me: Once a coworker said "supposably" 7 times in a meeting and I just let her

St. Peter: Get in here

I think I do my best work on little sleep and irritability.

Just pulled my wife out of a coma by telling her someone set a drink on the coffee table without a coaster.

I would rather die than create an account to continue

The Story Told on the Famous Bayeux Tapestry Explained from Start to Finish They say that history is written by the victors, but that isn't always true: sometimes it's embroidered by the victors. Such was the case with the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the build-up to a...

The Story Told on the Famous Bayeux Tapestry Explained from Start to Finish

“Dig, if you will, my pictures.”

-Prince, annoying his co-workers after a vacation

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

BRITISH PERSON: cheerio

AMERICAN: cheerio cream filled deep fried flamin hot donut burger

at what age is it socially acceptable to become a full time caftan lady i feel like i’m getting close

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but it’s just me forgetting shows i’ve watched

My talent is always arriving at cvs pharmacy during their weird communal lunch

I have complained every day of my life since I started talking

Maybe you don’t have anxiety. Maybe everyone is just irritating af

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As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene.

In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.

Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and What Gives Value to a Work of Art “Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”

Brian Eno on creativity, confidence, and what gives value to a work of art www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/15/b...

= Nation & World - The Seattle Times My Account ™ The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am By DINO GRANDONI The Washington Post

typical corrupt science

the new pope just exclaimed “DA BEARS”

Man i wish i could lie in state for three days

Anxiety disorders are goofy as hell. In love? Panic. Excited? Panic. Happy? Panic. Panicked? Panic.