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in-nz:

Last night I went to a local pub to participate in a charity quiz night for my host’s son’s Scout group. I thought, hell, let’s celebrate. So I ordered drinks and food and was really just throwing my money around like I was possibly balling. Right after I go to pay my $50nz bill, they announce the winner of the raffle I forgot I had bought a ticket for. The prize? $50nz. The winner? Me.

Heck yeah free night out.

And then I slept in.

And now I’m going to go plant grape plants.

And then I’m going to eat an apple with peanut butter.

I hope you know how vicariously I’m living through you right now.

thegrandarchives:

Ray Charles & Billy Preston - Agent Double O’ Soul, 1967

I love Billy Preston so much. Goddamn that man can sing and dance.

merlin:

A propos of nothing, my own favorite first line is a dead tie.

Yeah, sure, Absalom, Absalom! is there. But, Bill’s sprawling opener runs neck-and-neck with a crowd favorite and the model of the hook, One Hundred Years of Solitude:

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Truly, magic.

And for as amazing the first line is, it only gets better from there.

In the future, if you’re wondering, ‘Crime, boy, I don’t know’ is when I decided to kick your ass.

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— President Bartlet

Toyota Develops New Flower Species »

yewknee:

kateoplis:

Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations in Toyota City, Japan. The flowers are derivatives of the cherry sage plant and the gardenia. The sage leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia leaves create water vapor in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory and therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling, in turn producing less carbon dioxide.

that is insane.

WHAT. WHAT!

I like Dick Cheney personally but I really don’t care what Dick Cheney thinks. And I’m not sure a lot of Americans do. … Look at the policy of neglect they left us in Afghanistan.

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— Joe Biden

… you need to exaggerate life’s strangeness only a small amount to remember how strange it actually is.

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— John Hodgman