extantialist

old guy • designer • layabout • flaneur • clean style at @laugier

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[themaninthegreenshirt]

Herbie Hancock business card, 1960

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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik

Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardi

“It is in that very puniness that insatiable evil lies. In 1931, after Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party had surged in the polls, he was interviewed by the US reporter Dorothy Thompson for Cosmopolitan. “When I walked into Adolf Hitler’s salon in the Kaiserhof hotel,” Thompson recalled, “I was convinced that I was meeting the future dictator of Germany. In something like 50 seconds, I was quite sure he was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog.”

“Think of Benito Mussolini,” wrote the journalist Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in the LA Times, “jackbooted, lantern-jawed, squeakily bombastic, posturing from the little balcony of his office on Piazza Venezia in Rome – that remarkably dopey stiff-armed Fascist salute, the absurd oratory. Think of that funny man, that consummate buffoon”, and remember that “just because something is silly doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous”.”

—Nesrine Malik

[typhlonectes]

Vintage newspaper article

[ellierenae]

write. write. you need to make mistakes to learn from them. you don't become a master carpenter by shutting your eyes and thinking hard about dovetail joints

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Armageddon

God's Works Are What We Make of Them

God is good?

[sentimentalbeing2001]

I Worried, Mary Oliver

[nyancrimew]

gonna start saying "this is setting men back 10 years" whenever some guy says some dumb shit

[nyancrimew]

"this is really gonna hurt the male community"

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A song about writing.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

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One of my unsupported beliefs is that Americans spend too much time thinking Russia is powerful mostly because it’s so big on our maps.

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Thinking about this old car today. Not sure if I miss it or I just miss being 25 years younger.

(It sure was pretty tho)

[lichcoil]

so there's a natural order to this world and we need atleast four million mans in boots with armor, vehicles, and firearms to enforce it, otherwise something unnatural might happen

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[nevver]

May gaze back, Michael Pederson