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[lourvely]

i want to be good! i want to live life thoroughly and enjoy it! i want to be deliberate! i want to be real!

[jstor]

For Ephemera Friday, we’re taking a drive along the mid-century Malibu coast through a collection of vintage matchbooks.

Bright illustrations, tiny road maps, palm trees, swimming pools, and plenty of lobsters promoted destinations like the Lindomar Lodge, the Albatross Hotel, Las Flores Inn, and the Malibu Sea Lion. Once handed out as disposable advertisements, these matchbooks now preserve traces of institutions shaped by the changing world that housed them. The matchbooks belong to the Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera at Pepperdine Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

Read more about the history hidden inside these matchbooks in “Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast” from JSTOR Daily.

Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, all from Pepperdine University's Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[mosaicneedlework]

Cats at the Temple of Apollo Site // Delphi Archeological site, Greece

Photo: me 2025

[sprouch]

short film by jonathan djob nkondo, posted to tiktok by the artist who did the sound, nicholas snyder

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[herowyn]

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[maureen2musings]

Firefly season

naturparkhohemark

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"afternoon soak" (2005), liz west

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[sonoftheria]

✴︎ BETRAYED STRAYS ✴︎

[thequietedge]

📍Istanbul, October 2025

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 / XC15-45mm

[haverst]

Berkshire Landscape by Tim Flach (2008)

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[pmamtraveller]

Eclipse Table Lamp, from 1960s Brazil.

[justsomeguycore]

it’s really important to me when men put their heads in women’s laps. one of the most important things i can see on my tv. men laying their heads in women’s laps or men sitting and women standing and the man holds her around the middle and presses his face into her tummy as she hugs him around the shoulders. two very important poses. extremely soul igniting tableaux.