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Don’t worry, Miss Without reading the clapper board or the notes, I knew this was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Brilliant film. The remakes showed that you can’t beat Walter and Robert. Not even Edward James Olmos, Denzel and John can do it.
A friend who was a waiter told me that his customers simply treated everyone nicely in the wake of the disaster. A tragedy of this scale meant a coffee that took an extra minute to arrive was not the end of the world …
Yet the aftermath was not always pleasant … It took only two weeks for my waiter friend to encounter the same old rudeness. His customers went back to self-importance, forgetting that we were in this game of life together. Never mind that people were hurting, or that Mayor Giuliani was attending funeral FDNY services with empty coffins in the very same city: where is my goddamn coffee?
Me, on life in New York City in the aftermath of September 11, 2001
Gratuitous Maddie post Because we are going to have way fewer K-Gill pictures after she leaves Doctor Who.
Recycling CDs Objects are less blurry than they appear (from toocooltobehipster).
(Source: thedailywhat, via integers)
Police Get Involved In #OccupySesameStreet Protests
Occupy Sesame Street I don’t want to minimize what has been going on with the Occupy Wall Street movement, but this is still funny.
(via fuckyeahdementia)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three I love this film. Robert Shaw was one of the best villains ever. And it’s probably Walter Matthau’s best performance. The score was amazing. Shows you don’t need explosions every second to make a thriller. Shame they keep remaking it—both the Edward James Olmos and the John Travolta ones struggle by comparison.
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Herb Lubalin ranks as one of the finest graphic designers of his time, and he’s also the man responsible for typefaces like Avant Garde Gothic, Lubalin Graph and Serif Gothic.
New York City’s Cooper Union school is currently holding an exhibition called Lubalin Now which features his work and more recent works in the same spirit, so if you’re in New York and in any way interested in design, I would highly recommend checking it out (I would if I could). The exhibition runs from now until December 8th with FREE ADMISSION at the Cooper Union Gallery, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY.
Herb If I was in New York right now, I’d head there …
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Tweet(s) of the Day: Immediately following tonight’s passage of the Marriage Equality Act in the New York Senate, Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka proposed to each other — and they both said yes.
[@actuallynph / @davidburtka.]
Meanwhile, in New York How sweet! Doogie Howser is getting hitched.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnbyjcs2iq1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Tweet(s) of the Day: Immediately following tonight’s passage of the Marriage Equality Act in the New York Senate, Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka proposed to each other — and they both said yes.
[@actuallynph / @davidburtka.]
Meanwhile, in New York How sweet! Doogie Howser is getting hitched.
(via riddler)
