Chimes! Goddamn you're looking old...

ball pythons yawn a lot too.

I'm reminded of a librarian from a little town in the Appalachians who told me that my books were their most frequently checked out and never returned. I expressed dismay and she told me it was okay: they'd found their people. Library books can live hard lives, but it's probably better than the books that sit for thirty years pristine and untouched on a shelf, and are eventually discarded because they take up shelf space a book people might want to read needs.

© Photographies by his brother,John Carder Bush, hair by Anthony Yacomine and makeup by Clayton Howard

Ziegfeld Follies girl Eva Brady, c.1920s.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.

I just wondered, between you and me, in a hundred words, where do you think Van Gogh rates in the history of art?

The Simpsons S08E10 “The Springfield Files”

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron

MARILYN MONROE AS KAY WESTON RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954) dir. Otto Preminger

outfits from the heart’s filthy lesson!

Soprano singer and actress Geraldine Farrar

10 breathtaking portraits of Sioux Indian and activist Zitkala Sa taken by Gertrude Kasebier from the late 19th century.

The leading sex symbol of the 1920s and flapper extraordinaire.

ROBIN HOOD (1973) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

Stacia Napierkowska in Les Vampires (1915)

He vibin’