-- Fog Count - Leslie Jamison, Oxford American, Apr. 2013 ( Read more... )

"A home is like a reservoir equipped with a check valve: the valve permits influx but prevents outflow. Acquisition goes on night and day--smoothly, subtly, imperceptibly. I have no sharp taste for acquiring things, but it is not necessary to desire things in order to acquire them. Goods and chattels seek a man out; they find him even though his ( Read more... )

Showtime's Youtube Channel had the second season premiere episode of Homeland up and I just finished watching it and I continue to be blown away by that show.

One, it manages an interesting balance between the glacial pace of a show like The Wire and the frenetic, perpetual nail-biter that is Breaking Bad, especially in an episode that features ( Read more... )

-- Sires and Sons: Personal history, the retirement of Bodemeister, and the supposed "death of horse racing" - David Hill, Grantland.com, August 23, 2012 ( Read more... )

This is the greatest thing ever.

I've never lacked for imagination regarding epic battle scenes because of stuff like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH1TB4gEUY&feature=player_embedded

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Caption: holy-fucking-shit

How to Disable a Man 45 Different Ways - by Tony Jaa

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