Tumblr (3.0; @gogogogol)http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/581d54aa496b2ebb69d44166c6e501f5/tumblr_mmfotsvW6S1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“But she needed no more advice and no more instruction.  <span>She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”<br/>-Richard Yates,<em> Revolutionary Road</em> </span></p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/49857548091http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/49857548091Tue, 07 May 2013 11:10:40 -0400revolutionary roadrichard yatessuburbia<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3caab8e3f31215b5ee68c0dfca489fba/tumblr_mlm6v0pCfD1qf66n7o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/840955ff12028ec0ee6e486990546648/tumblr_mlm6v0pCfD1qf66n7o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/48928554417http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/48928554417Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:57:19 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a3af1dc891497db12da51f8cf12e5f19/tumblr_mkqxpuHwL91ro0vmko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>likely the source of my recurring nightmares of owning too many cats.</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/47790470074http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/47790470074Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:13:02 -0400wanda gagmillions of catschildren's bookscats<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8683462b464417ad8accbd653341e95a/tumblr_mkt0r7VRpZ1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Please, raise your glass.  Here’s to perfection.  Here’s to the end of all suffering.  Here’s to being mastered with infinite benevolence.  Here’s to being exterminated by our own creations.  Here’s to never needing to solve another of our own problems ever again.  Here’s to living for as long as the machines can keep our universe from decaying into a featureless void.  Here’s to loving for that long, too, and loving perfectly, without error or sorrow, held forever on the edge of madness by our desire, but never tumbling over.  Salud.”</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/47225460483http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/47225460483Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:49:55 -0400ron currie jr.flimsy little plastic miraclesthe singularity<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f1973b1e72a11e6b3b27cb7f351ff986/tumblr_mk2se01zG51qdwl9jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><small>Jack Nicholson with director Roman Polanski on the set of <em>Chinatown</em>, 1974</small></p> </blockquote>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/46006693847http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/46006693847Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:13:43 -0400jack nicholsonroman polanskicelebrities being awesome together<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/22f0d7f34a09d3f7ee2e3991a63a6465/tumblr_mj7um8i6vr1rwnbtco1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“a lovely, lyrical, lilting name…”</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/45119585128http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/45119585128Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:48:00 -0400lolitastanley kubrickpeter sellers<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6749f2f748eb26f110dc274727169afe/tumblr_mjcdw2i8pF1qkmsleo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>that print. that watch.</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44964032714http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44964032714Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:41:39 -0500wantscoveting<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4c9eebc0f59821f207a8530b58adc503/tumblr_mjb44mDPIS1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.monkeyspaw.com/">the monkey’s paw</a></p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44800919229http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44800919229Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:12:00 -0500booksodditiesthe monkey's pawrevenge<p>&#8220;She took a sort of abject pride in her mercilessness toward herself.^{[<a href="#ftn.id394062" id="id394062" name="id394062">1</a>]}</p> <div class="footnote"> <p>^{[<a href="#id394062" id="ftn.id394062" name="ftn.id394062">1</a>]} In fact, one explanation the soon-to-be-mother’s own parents gave for their disciplining her so little was that their daughter seemed so mercilessly to upbraid herself for any shortcoming or transgression that disciplining her would have felt &#8216;a little bit like kicking a dog.&#8217;&#8221;</p> <p>-David Foster Wallace, &#8220;Suicide as a Sort of Present&#8221;, from <em>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</em></p> </div>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44800113967http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44800113967Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:00:00 -0500david foster wallacebrief interviews with hideous mensuicide as a sort of present<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a423a6aab1eee1b85d9bd55385724574/tumblr_mjazduK8ru1rqpa8po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>In a document from his 2002 syllabus titled “Your Liberal-Arts $ at Work,” David Foster Wallace breaks down 5 common word usage mistakes in English.</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44796401861http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44796401861Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:56:00 -0500david foster wallacewritingusagedfw<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/69b2d7e242fd86fd8786b76bb81fa525/tumblr_mj7gzkwZYm1qhh5ipo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>1946</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44649327028http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44649327028Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:59:44 -0500vintage pharmaceutical adsdexedrinethat time of the monthdrugs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bd1f86b8062939d24d6e7964a5f06d1c/tumblr_mj5e08KXHY1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>bitter irony via <a href="http://monkeyspaw.com/">the monkey’s paw</a></p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44550425604http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44550425604Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:00:00 -0500torontothe monkey's pawttctoronto transit commission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1531992bb4ce7a98b221d2088435b5fb/tumblr_mj54zvRt5I1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/038d8959e38b68c60323b00adea0ef72/tumblr_mj54zvRt5I1qhh5ipo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>super amused that in holland the title of the book translates to, “a<span class="short_text" id="result_box"><span class="hps">nne frank</span> <span class="hps">is alive</span> <span class="hps">and lives</span> <span class="hps">in the attic.”  i mean, why beat around the bush i guess.<br/></span></span></p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44541517723http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44541517723Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:45:00 -0500shalom auslanderhope a tragedyAnne Frank leeft en woont op zolderbetter book titlesbooks<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqky3eZ6f11qaez01o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqky3eZ6f11qaez01o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44236387043http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44236387043Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:30:18 -0500wantswine<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/940704d3b4fa04784066222e25865076/tumblr_miw8r92xPC1rt28efo1_r1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44157319994http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44157319994Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:00:57 -0500scorpion daggergifgarden of eden<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e505901498ab47ead59b6dbc9668b250/tumblr_miugpqZhBj1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>cowan ave. police station, c. 1925</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44080456727http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44080456727Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:25:02 -0500torontoparkdale1920s“What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee’s: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you’d won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?”<br/><br/> - <em>Dan Chaon, “Passengers, Remain Calm” from <em>Among the Missing</em></em>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44080055494http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44080055494Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:19:00 -0500dan chaonamong the missingshort stories“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like, I’m about to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I’m about to kick the shit out of life.”<br/><br/> - <em>Bernadette Fox<br/>Maria Semple, <em>Where’d You Go, Bernadette</em></em>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43754785370http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43754785370Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:10:00 -0500maria semplewhere'd you go bernadetteanxiety<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fa15ce77c8fad7945bfdf1b463828c8c/tumblr_mimmzcauSL1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a27e128d0463bd7bf7dbeea5aa0b1927/tumblr_mimmzcauSL1qhh5ipo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f81aaf4b84db98efc69830e52a73a446/tumblr_mimmzcauSL1qhh5ipo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>one of my favourites.</p>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43724268005http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43724268005Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:59:36 -0500edward goreythe disrespectful summons<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9vz7kEexp1qb6ghbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43649041651http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/43649041651Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:11:00 -0500eraserheaddavid lynchthe pixies