John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter

"The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

If you love someone -- there is no possible harm in saying so -- only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration..."

"It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another -- but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good."

"...And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

Velvet

The sexiest beverage ever.

Drips

A talk about how coffee is undergoing a makeover. Ride the wave.

Built

Coffea arabica

Koffee knowledge:

Coffee Cupping

Palate

Noma
...a highly studious investigation into the culinary possibilities of foraged ingredients.

"Whatever they put in their mouth, that can only happen at this specific place on earth, at this specific moment..."

Footsie

Oh my. Cherry red cheeks, cute eyes and a killer smile.

Lay lady lay

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Hour hand

Typo

Phased

Friendship 7

Stalactites

Jiffy

Take 1

Do the rump

A deceptively easy looking recipe that I must attempt sometime soon...

Slow Cooker

Italian Beef for Sandwiches

Starlight

Gusto

Voila

 -Philippe_Halsman

In 1941, American photographer Philippe Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in New York City and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, water thrown from a bucket, an easel, a footstool and Salvador Dalí all seemingly suspended in mid-air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí’s work Leda Atomica (at that which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats.) Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result. This is the unretouched version of the photograph that was published in LIFE magazine.

Gung ho

“A ‘blood chit’ issued to the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers. The Chinese characters read: ‘This foreign person has come to China to help in the war effort. Soldiers and civilians, one and all, should rescue and protect him’. (R.E. Baldwin Collection)”

-wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_chit

Body lies

"I always say - a prejudice on my part, I'm sure - you can tell a lot about a person's character from his choice of sofa. Sofas constitute a realm inviolate unto themselves. This, however, is something that only those who have grown up sitting on good sofas will appreciate. It's like growing up reading good books or listening to good music. One good sofa breeds another good sofa; one bad sofa breeds another bad sofa. That's how it goes.

There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second- or third-rate sofas in their homes. I put little trust in such people. An expensive automobile may be well worth its price, but its only an expensive automobile. If you have the money, you can buy it, anyone can buy it. Procuring a good sofa, on the other hand, requires style and experience and philosophy. It takes money, yes, but you also need a vision of the superior sofa. That sofa among sofas."

- Page 45, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami.

Pick

Slip-in feature. Will replicate.

Late for work

Navy man

-P Johnson

Hansem

-Street Etiquette

Comme ci, comme ca

-Emmas designblogg