July 2012
67 posts
Submit your Olympic Boyfriends: 1896-1936 →
IMPORTANT.
mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:
We’re obsessed with the Olympics here at MDB, especially the Olympics of days gone by. This post on the 1912 Olympics has reminded us just how much we enjoy the athletes of yesteryear, which is why we’re asking you, for the next two weeks, to submit your favorite boyfriends from the 1896-1936 Olympics.
Don’t forget to tell us who they are, the sport they...
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“Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall not have peace...”
– Pierre de Coubertin, on restarting the Olympics in 1896 after a 1,500-year hiatus.
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Sometimes, angels just want you to have a key... →
The conversations lasted until the angel Madimi commanded that her supplicants have their spouses in common. John Dee was astonished that God’s angel could command such a thing, but he did it, or at least attempted it. The record is clear, and a unique record it is: four Elizabethans, Dee, Kelley, Dee’s somewhat fiery wife Jane, and Kelley’s wife Joanna, obeying naked Madimi (who “sheweth her...
WatchLove him. Even if he is superhuman.
theparisreview:
“If you’re really self-satisfied all the time, you’re probably a lousy writer.”
Storyboard’s wonderful interview with the New Yorker’s editor in chief David Remnick on the art of the modern profile.
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Happy First Day of Thermidor! →
Thermidor is French for “holy shit it’s hot out there, let’s overthrow this Robespierre guy right now and get back to our cool peasant hovels”
Thanks for the reminder @jacobincalendar!
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“Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years. Nor...”
– Ernest Hemingway shoots his cat (via explore-blog)
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“The woman now began to sniff her way all over the old man’s face, rubbing her...”
– Pu Songling, from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, c. 1690. Everyone having a scary Friday the 13th?
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Did Henry David Thoreau Invent Raisin Bread?
In (belated) celebration of the birthday of Henry David Thoreau, we take a look at a historical food mystery.
In his seminal biography on Henry David Thoreau, Walter Harding, widely recognized as America’s leading Thoreau scholar for more than 40 years, leaves no stone unturned in his quest to piece together a nuanced portrait of the philosopher and his life. He writes, in a chapter on Thoreau’s...
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Did Aaron Burr practice before his deadly duel... →
Practicing before a duel was ungentlemanly, but Aaron Burr was rarely the gentleman. In honor of yesterday’s Hamilton-Burr dueleversary, Paul Collins sent us this nugget about Burr’s supposed target practice.
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Here at LQ we love us some Memory Palace. And now...
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“And I say, I would very much like to go and see Disneyland. But then, we cannot...”
– Nikita Khrushchev is told he can’t go to Disneyland, 1959
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Texts from Jane Eyre →
JANE JANE I BOUGHT YOU A DRESS MADE OF TEN THOUSAND PEARLS AS A BRIDAL PRESENT where on earth would I wear that YOU COULD WEAR IT ON THE MOON that seems impractical how would i even breathe on the moon? I WOULD BREATHE FOR YOU MY JANE
And more proof that Rochester would make a pretty annoying boyfriend over at The Hairpin.
