Local.

Buy Local.  Seriously, do it.  They are calling it The Local Multiplier Effect and it's pretty cool.

"...spending your money at independent businesses begins a cycle in which those businesses then spend their money at local shops, and so on." 


from ApartmentTherapy.com & ReadyMade Magazine



Hometown tourist.

80F in Los Angeles today.

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Retrospective.

1. Making Time - The Creation
2. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool and D-Cup
3. Calabria 2008 - Enur
4. Bulletproof - La Roux
5. Carnival - The Cardigans
6. The Shining Path - RJD2
7. Hey Young World - Slick Rick
8. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
9. Intermission
10. Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
11. Fronteir Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
12. Maybe the People Would be the Times - Love
13. Richard Cory - Them
14. Jackson Cage - Bruce Springsteen
15. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
16. He War - Cat Power
17. Stage Fright - The Band
18. Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
19. You Gotta Move - RL Burnside
20. Home - LCD Soundsystem

the twelve fish of christmas.

stimulate

How the GI Bill changed the economy

(aka The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944)

crisp fall days

suddenly the midwest doesn't look so bad...

shamrock o'bama

hey spendy

"The problem is us. The problem is not the banks, greedy though they may be, overpaid though they may be. The problem is us... We've been living very high on the hog. Our living standard has been rising dramatically in the last 25 years. And we have been borrowing much of the money to make that prosperity happen."

-David Beim, Columbia

nice to meet you, mr. disfarmer

From Disfarmer.com:

Nothing speaks more eloquently about Disfarmer's artistry than the photographs themselves. His genius was the ability to capture without judgment, the essence of a people and a time.

life in a box

US Navy locker, Hawaii 1940 (from the Life Magazine Archives)

seriously. slow your roll.

art - yours for $6.72

it's officially "the season" now

positively brilliant

Cosby Show Opening Credits Seasons 1-8

it says, "the world is changing"

callibrate your watches, ready, set, GO!