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there’s something so desperately miserable about the lyric “buy me some peanuts and cracker jack / i don’t care if i never come back”

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Traffic on the West Side Highway, ca. 1943.

Photo: Everett Collection

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They don’t tell you how many Allen wrenches you’ll accumulate

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"...there are two technologies for producing automobiles in America. One is to manufacture them in Detroit, and the other is to grow them in Iowa. Everybody knows about the first technology; let me tell you about the second. First you plant seeds, which are the raw material from which automobiles are constructed. You wait a few months until wheat appears. Then you harvest the wheat, load it onto ships, and sail the ships eastward into the Pacific Ocean. After a few months, the ships reappear with Toyotas on them. International trade is nothing but a form of technology."

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Concrete bench Le Corbusier France, 1965

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jimmy mcnulty is the funniest boy in the world for bumping this while driving around baltimore looking for omar.

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this sounds like torture in television form

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other americans often make me feel reserved and aloof yet europeans make me feel like a jolly moron. like a drunk king

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The American consumer doesn’t actually want trucks and cars that are huge enough that you can’t see a six foot tall person over the hood. They make vehicles that big now to avoid environmental regulations related to engine efficiency

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Three-case inro with silk-winder design.  Early 19th century, Japan, by Nomura Kyukoku.  Mosaic of large pieces of shell; incised and filled decoration; interior with gold, silver and colored togidashi-e.  William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, MFA

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pokemon firered and beef greek edition pretzel tribute

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in wigan, it's as good as gone

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