This setting for Bon Iver’s “Holocene” is otherworldly. Makes me long for the winter that never was. Take up that cup of black magic, turn up the volume, lean back, and play.

Snow boots (Taken with instagram)
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Snow boots (Taken with instagram)

Reese’s and “The Thing Around Your Neck” to round out a long week. (Taken with instagram)
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Reese’s and “The Thing Around Your Neck” to round out a long week. (Taken with instagram)

Way too provocative of a senator holding this sign not to reblog. thenoobyorker: Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre of Tulsa, Oklahoma held up a sign at a protest Tuesday that said “If I wanted the government in my womb I’d fuck a senator. The Senator was at the capitol to protest anti-abortion legislation in the state. “When I saw that sign out of all of those signs, I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it,” said McIntyre, D-Tulsa. “I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late,” said McIntyre, according to NewsOK.com Photo: Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre talks with a protestor during a rally opposing the Personhood measures at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman This is awesome. h/t: Colorlines
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Way too provocative of a senator holding this sign not to reblog.

thenoobyorker:

Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre of Tulsa, Oklahoma held up a sign at a protest Tuesday that said “If I wanted the government in my womb I’d fuck a senator. The Senator was at the capitol to protest anti-abortion legislation in the state.

“When I saw that sign out of all of those signs, I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it,” said McIntyre, D-Tulsa. “I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late,” said McIntyre, according to NewsOK.com

Photo: Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre talks with a protestor during a rally opposing the Personhood measures at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman

This is awesome. h/t: Colorlines

Source: colorlines.com

Lucian + Rainier woke up at 4:50 am on a school day and beelined directly to their hoodies before breakfast. Best part of my day. (Taken with instagram)
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Lucian + Rainier woke up at 4:50 am on a school day and beelined directly to their hoodies before breakfast. Best part of my day. (Taken with instagram)

beingblog: parkstepp: Today is the 5th anniversary of the passing of my oldest son, Nathan. He would want me to be strong…to laugh, to free myself from the stuff that has hurt us all. And I am….But I cry also..because I miss him… But my little one is married and soon to be a father…and me a grandfather… Life has a way of moving us toward that Place, where we can Be. The lessons learned from the passing of my son are overwhelming sometimes…but lessons they are. And we let go…and move on. parkstepp A virtual big hug to you from all of us here. ~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor I have two young sons and couldn’t help but tear and feel the immense loss of a Tumblr friend I’ve never met. Sure, we can be strong and move on but love is so intense, and regret so present, that death of a child must be an awful thing. I lost my father when I was five and thought I never knew him, but memories of him pop into my mind once in a while. My two sons remind me of how much I must have loved him and how much I must have known him. I previously thought, ‘Ah, how much can a five-year-old child know.’ A hell of a lot; the pain never leaves and neither does the love. When I do certain things that I can’t explain or pin on an observed behavior of my maternal side, I think, ‘I wonder if Vern did that too? Did I get that from my father?’ I wish I knew, but I hope my sons can feel the line of that ancestry from the Labers and the Mullenbergs and now the Gillisses. God bless him and parkstepp.
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beingblog:

parkstepp:

Today is the 5th anniversary of the passing of my oldest son, Nathan. He would want me to be strong…to laugh, to free myself from the stuff that has hurt us all. And I am….But I cry also..because I miss him…

But my little one is married and soon to be a father…and me a grandfather… Life has a way of moving us toward that Place, where we can Be. The lessons learned from the passing of my son are overwhelming sometimes…but lessons they are. And we let go…and move on.

parkstepp

A virtual big hug to you from all of us here.

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

I have two young sons and couldn’t help but tear and feel the immense loss of a Tumblr friend I’ve never met. Sure, we can be strong and move on but love is so intense, and regret so present, that death of a child must be an awful thing. I lost my father when I was five and thought I never knew him, but memories of him pop into my mind once in a while. My two sons remind me of how much I must have loved him and how much I must have known him. I previously thought, ‘Ah, how much can a five-year-old child know.’ A hell of a lot; the pain never leaves and neither does the love. When I do certain things that I can’t explain or pin on an observed behavior of my maternal side, I think, ‘I wonder if Vern did that too? Did I get that from my father?’

I wish I knew, but I hope my sons can feel the line of that ancestry from the Labers and the Mullenbergs and now the Gillisses. God bless him and parkstepp.

Source: parkstepp

Skate to where the puck’s going, not where it’s been. We’ve got to skate to where the audience is going.
Gary Knell, CEO of NPR in Friday’s Times Media Decoder blog, who “cited internal research that showed NPR’s average radio listener to be about 49 years old, the average user of NPR’s iPad app to be 41 and the average user of its iPhone app to be 37.”

Source: The New York Times

This is right before I instructed Raindog to give the ladies some good ol’ Rocky in Russia an pounding. (Taken with instagram)
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This is right before I instructed Raindog to give the ladies some good ol’ Rocky in Russia an pounding. (Taken with instagram)

Along with hand-tooled leather belts and woolen tweed ties, a mustachioed barber does his thing at Snowgrade. (Taken with instagram)
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Along with hand-tooled leather belts and woolen tweed ties, a mustachioed barber does his thing at Snowgrade. (Taken with instagram)

The Lachances suss out the vendors at Snowgrade. (Taken with instagram)
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The Lachances suss out the vendors at Snowgrade. (Taken with instagram)

Children’s Lenten commitments on crosses beneath the crucifix. (Taken with instagram)
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Children’s Lenten commitments on crosses beneath the crucifix. (Taken with instagram)

Nothing like encountering a massive crucifix draped in purple cloth in the transept of my child’s school. (Taken with instagram)
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Nothing like encountering a massive crucifix draped in purple cloth in the transept of my child’s school. (Taken with instagram)

This is really magical. For a 42-year-old former wrestler growing up in a landlocked state and now producing a public radio program (sitting in a cube in front of a screen most days), I admire how he’s been able to meld his family life with his professional life — and do it outdoors. And that he talks about how it grounds him is refreshing.

18thandhoyt:

What an amazing way to raise a family. Can you imagine?

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You gots ta love this reel. Now they should do a version of the stupid sh*t New Yorkers transplanted in Midwestern cities say. Oh, let me give you a couple:

In Minneapolis, Minnesota: “I am not getting a car. I never needed one in New York. I always ride the subway in New York. What’s there to do in this town? Can I get a ride?”

In Bismarck, North Dakota: “Where can we get some good kimchi. Don’t you have any Korean restaurants here?”

What do you got? Add to this list.

gq:

Sh*t New Yorkers Say

If you live here, you know how amazingly, eerily perfect this is. I said about 90 percent of these things on my way to work this morning. And bonus points for the faked enthusiasm for a gift of crappy Magnolia Bakery’s crappy cupcakes.

Source: youtube.com

I just hate it when they superimpose some Hollywood celebrity’s head on my body. I’ve got a brain and personality too, don’t they know. Being a body double is such a thankless profession.
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I just hate it when they superimpose some Hollywood celebrity’s head on my body. I’ve got a brain and personality too, don’t they know. Being a body double is such a thankless profession.

Source: asthecoldwindblows