kinda really awesome.

“I’m not going to take off my heels. You’re short. Embrace it.”
—Disney star Selena Gomez responded to Justin Bieber’s request that she change her shoes so Gomez wouldn’t tower over him. What a good role model: never sacrifice footwear for a man, er, boy.



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today feels like.

Giorgio de Chirico's Melancholy and Mystery of a Street.

slapstick by kurt vonnegut.

Life, ideally, I think, should be like the Minuet or the Virginia Reel or the Turkey Trot, something easily mastered in a dancing school.

and

"History is merely a list of surprises," I said. "It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."

swoon.

Via our labor of love.

an excerpt from truman capote's biography.

"The young Capote got a job as a copyboy at The New Yorker in the early forties, but was fired for inadvertently offending Robert Frost."




Note: currently reading Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Love it. Never realized how scandalous Holly Golightly really was.

i did it! i conquered my bibliophile everest!

I FINISHED READING WAR AND PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was one of the most modern books I've ever read despite being set against the Napoleonic Wars. Timeless. And Tolstoy's impeccable, beautiful character descriptions.






This has been a goal of mine for a long time. Ever since my extremely well-read Aunt Barb lauded it as her all-time favorite and after I was so enchanted by the less intimidating Anna Karenina. And it was totally worth it once I got all of the characters straight...

Count Pyotr Kirillovich (Pierre) Bezukhov
Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky
Princess Maria Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya
Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov
Countess Natalya Rostova
Countess Natalia Ilyinichna (Natasha) Rostova
Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov
Sofia Alexandrovna (Sonya) Rostova
Countess Vera Ilyinichna Rostova
Pyotr Ilyich (Petya) Rostov
Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin
Princess Elena Vasilyevna (Hélène) Kuragina
Prince Anatol Vasilyevich Kuragin
Prince Ipolit Vasilyevich
Prince Boris Drubetskoy
Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoya
Fyodor Ivanovich Dolokhov
Adolf Karlovich Berg
Anna Pavlovna Sherer
Maria Dmitryevna Akhrosimova
Amalia Evgenyevna Bourienne
Vasily Dmitrich Denisov
Platon Krataev
Napoleon I of France
General Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov
Osip Bazdeyev
Tsar Alexander I of Russia

...now get me a Chelsea Handler book. Stat.

a whale of time.

...I know, it's way too many whale pictures. But I couldn't resist.

On Sunday Walker, Meg, Casey and I made a Big Gulp Diet Coke filled trek to Catoosa, Oklahoma to see the famous blue whale of Route 66.
Built in the 70s as a water slide feature of the now defunct swimming hole, the whale was as campy, abandoned, beloved and weird as I had hoped.

We also made the mandatory stop at Queenies for grilled cheese and slices of cake.

But mostly I loved getting to spend time with my three favorite people.

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