oldfilmsflicker: The film that should have been named in this category is Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive.” Transcending the crime genre, it stars Ryan Gosling as a man who lives primarily to drive. Sometimes he’s a movie stunt driver, sometimes he drives getaway for crooks. He seems to have no family, no history and seemingly few emotions. Whatever happened to him drove any personality deep beneath the surface. He is an existential hero, defined entirely by his behavior. Not depending on violence, not buttressed by chase scenes, this film is a personality study. How often do we find the hero of an “action picture” to be this deeply interesting? They wuz robbed - Roger Ebert’s Journal

oldfilmsflicker:

The film that should have been named in this category is Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive.” Transcending the crime genre, it stars Ryan Gosling as a man who lives primarily to drive. Sometimes he’s a movie stunt driver, sometimes he drives getaway for crooks. He seems to have no family, no history and seemingly few emotions. Whatever happened to him drove any personality deep beneath the surface. He is an existential hero, defined entirely by his behavior. Not depending on violence, not buttressed by chase scenes, this film is a personality study. How often do we find the hero of an “action picture” to be this deeply interesting?

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thedailywhat: Trebek’s Magnum Look of the Day: What is a center for ants. [context / reddit.] View high resolution

thedailywhat:

Trebek’s Magnum Look of the Day: What is a center for ants.

[context / reddit.]

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Eat More Veg: Asian Spinach

eatmoreveg:

Simple, simple, simple. There is no excuse not to add this tasty little side dish to your dinner tonight or for lunch with some brown rice or quinoa. This has only 4 ingredients and takes under 10 min to make. Did I mention how good it is good for you? PF Chang’s has this little number on…

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Yelping with Cormac: Chevy's Fresh Mex

yelpingwithcormac:

Palo Alto, CA

Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM

Two stars.

The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.

Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two…

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thedailywhat:

Supercut of the Day: (Almost) every single “d’oh” uttered by Homer during the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons.

[reddit.]

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fuckyeamarklanegan: Toronto, 2008. Photo by Kate Yang Nikodym View high resolution

fuckyeamarklanegan:

Toronto, 2008. Photo by Kate Yang Nikodym

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anniecarbo: “I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit View high resolution

anniecarbo:

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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thedailywhat: Animated GIF of the Day: An important reminder from blackout participant The Oatmeal of all the wonderful things at stake in sitting idly by while SOPA/PIPA are allowed to pass. Look it up. [oatmeal.]

thedailywhat:

Animated GIF of the Day: An important reminder from blackout participant The Oatmeal of all the wonderful things at stake in sitting idly by while SOPA/PIPA are allowed to pass.

Look it up.

[oatmeal.]

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thedailywhat: Fun Fact of the Day: And by “fun” I mean STOP SOPA. [@skulled / pleatedjeans.]

thedailywhat:

Fun Fact of the Day: And by “fun” I mean STOP SOPA.

[@skulled / pleatedjeans.]

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