A very long, very sad story: forty years ago the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest inland body of water in the world; by 2010, it is estimated, it … gulfstream/789
Random photo set, supposedly from some guy who worked for a real shitty pool company. “Here’s T-Bone pitching a pool skimmer into the truck. This … gulfstream/2080
Ron: "It's not so much the girls that have a problem with doing blacks on camera, it's that their family would have a problem. Particularly girls from … quotes/226
He [Holden's brother D.B.] made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. Allie … catcher/26
You'd have liked him [Holden's brother Allie]. -- J.D. Salinger, _The Catcher in the Rye_, p. 41 You'd like her [Holden's sister Phoebe]. -- J.D. … catcher/6
... sent for Jervas my old periwig-maker and he did bring me a periwig; but it was full of nits; so as I was troubled to see it (it being his old fault) … pepys/271
... and my wife and brother and I to my Uncle Wights, where my aunt is grown so ugly, and their entertainment so bad, that I am in pain to be there, nor … pepys/238