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Cover for James Joyce’s Ulysses by Peter Mendelsund
he was covered in the detritus of his work
Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience
Can I just stop you for a minute and note how fucking amazing it is that one of our greatest living cartoonists is not only teaching this class, but she’s letting us all follow along? Incredible.
“The only one doing their job around here is this tree.” — @dallasclayton (via)
Alternate titles in Stanley Kubrick’s notebook for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
See also: Tim Schafer’s alternate titles for Grim Fandango
(via jndevereux)
Obama is expected to pick current White House chief of staff Jacob J. Lew for Treasury secretary, which means his crazy signature could end up on the dollar bill.
The NYTimes takes a look:
Amazingly, while this looks like an arbitrary series of loop-the-loops, he’s actually mostly consistent about having seven full loops each time. Maybe they stand for the seven letters of “Jack Lew” (as he is known); maybe seven is his lucky number. Clearly we need to consult another graphologist.
It’d be so great if he didn’t change it.
A visual history of Richard Nixon getting lazier
Lazier, or crazier? (Or both?) cf. Nixon’s doodles.
(Source: peterfromtexas, via megustamemes)
“Study the greats and become greater.” —Michael Jackson
Handwritten notes via @mjjphotos and Spike Lee’s BAD25 documentary, which, honestly, I would hold off on watching until the 2-hour complete version is available. (Watch the chopped 1 hour version here→)
Writing by hand… does it ring a bell? Does it ring and ring? (Image by Lynda Barry)
How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval upon the ear
In cadence sweet; now dying all away,
Now pealing loud again, and louder still,
Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on!
With easy force it opens all the cells
Where Memory slept.— William Cowper- Task (bk. VI, l. 6)
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