Tingle Alley

Spy gear! The best part is the spy wigs of course; so curious...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:28:00 -0400

Spy gear! The best part is the spy wigs of course; so curious about what they actually looked like on him. They seem… unlikely but maybe were very flattering on.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 16:10:27 -0400

“But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:04:24 -0400

“But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute.” In many times and places, a line like that has been offered as an excuse for walking away, not for helping a woman break down your neighbor’s door. How many women have died as a result? They didn’t yesterday.”

allcreatures: Picture: Sergey Gorshkov/Solent (via Pictures of...

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:08:51 -0400

allcreatures:

Picture: Sergey Gorshkov/Solent (via Pictures of the day: 29 April 2013 - Telegraph)

“I was always such a good girl, as someone nastily said once, ‘an A student.’ But...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:15:00 -0400

“I was always such a good girl, as someone nastily said once, ‘an A student.’ But at this point in my life I’m powerfully aware that there isn’t an unlimited amount of time ahead, that if you don’t please yourself, then you please nobody, and that nobody will ever care more about what I write than I do. Which is a liberation, really.”

— In love with Claire Messud lately.

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Fri, 03 May 2013 08:04:25 -0400

“As anyone even vaguely familiar with lefty infighting knows, the memory of the anarchist is...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:19:05 -0400

“As anyone even vaguely familiar with lefty infighting knows, the memory of the anarchist is long and thorough, so after Thatcher died on Monday, some of the old guard and fellow travellers dutifully showed up.”

"The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:53:37 -0400

“The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very shores of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, its balconies and iron railings look across the water, its yellow-ocher awnings are a touch of color in the winter light. It is like a great sanitarium or museum. There are Bechstein pianos in the public rooms, a private silver collection, a Salon de Bridge. This is the hotel where the novelist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and his wife, Véra, live. They have been here for 14 years. One imagines his large and brooding reflection in the polished glass of bookcases near the reception desk where there are bound volumes of the Illustrated London News from the year 1849 to 1887, copies of Great Expectations, The Chess Games of Greco and a book called Things Past, by the Duchess of Sermoneta.”

- What it looked like, that time James Salter wrote about Nabakov for People Magazine: An Old Magician Named Nabokov Writes and Lives in Splendid Exile : People.com (via alexanderchee)

so-treu: David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:13:58 -0400

so-treu:

David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as David Bowie

!!!!!!

Kelly Brook, Our Lady Of The Selfies

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:38:36 -0400

Kelly Brook, Our Lady Of The Selfies:

emmagarman:

Exemplar of liberated womanhood or the ultimate female chauvinist pig? You decide!

“No one can read this book without becoming a Pnin...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:50:20 -0400

“No one can read this book without becoming a Pnin man.” (Via.)

wwnorton: I wish I had a roof over my bed to pull down on my head when I feel damned by wanting you...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:28:29 -0400

wwnorton:

I wish I had a roof over my bed
to pull down on my head when I feel damned
by wanting you so much it looks like need.

-from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker

lauratrethewey: Sylvia Plath feeding deer in Ontario, Canada,...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:47:26 -0400

lauratrethewey:

Sylvia Plath feeding deer in Ontario, Canada, 1959

Jason: This [website] had like four sections: film, music, comedy and…wait for it…...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:49:56 -0400

Jason: This [website] had like four sections: film, music, comedy and…
wait for it… MAGIC!!!

Ken: MAGIC???

Jason: I saw a PowerPoint headline that said this: “We can WIN in magic”

Ken: Like, performance magic? Or secret word magic?

Jason: They signed some kind of deal with David Blaine, but I never saw how they planned to make magic online. Look, it’s a GIF… but it’s MOOOOOOVING!

How To Be A Monster: Life Lessons From Lord Byron… about...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:20:52 -0400

How To Be A Monster: Life Lessons From Lord Byron… about Lord Byron, vampires, monsters, unrequited crushes… and sad, sad awkward John Polidori.

maudnewton: “Looking back on that time—and on that movie—I...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:56:30 -0500

maudnewton:

“Looking back on that time—and on that movie—I remember feeling that things were shifting, finally and irrevocably. As Chocano says, ‘For the few years after the release of Thelma and Louise, the culture seemed unusually and (in hindsight) unbelievably receptive to the plaintive howls of a generation of girls who, as I did, felt exiled from the culture.

I often think how disappointed my young self would be to see things like Seth MacFarlane’s stupid ‘we saw your boobs’ song at the Oscars or all those Republican hopefuls opining that women’s bodies know how to stop pregnancies if they’re raped, or to know that, even now, there’s really only allowed to be one admired female director at a time. I didn’t realize at the age of 23, even though history is full of examples of this happening, that in addition to bending toward justice a culture could go backward.”

— Reckoning with Thelma & Louise, with my pal Carrie Frye, twenty years after my obsession reached its peak in the summer of 1993.

“The police radio, Louise.”

Hoping that if I leave them there long enough one of them will...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:57:03 -0500

Hoping that if I leave them there long enough one of them will eventually figure out how to type.

Orphaned baby bat. (Via.)

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:58:36 -0500

Orphaned baby bat. (Via.)

iPod shuffle tarot.

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:23:00 -0500

iPod shuffle tarot.

This weekend in Netflix streaming: Will Tippin’s getting his teeth pulled out during a torture...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:51:26 -0500

This weekend in Netflix streaming: Will Tippin’s getting his teeth pulled out during a torture session at the end of Season 1 of “Alias” blows my entire lady-spy-reproductive-uneasiness-of-the-early-aughts-vagina-dentata theory.* (It’s terrible as I was really hoping to get tenure with that.)

* Cf. Salt.