What You Hopefully Did Months Ago:
Seriously, guys. Run, don’t walk, to this amazing series of charts.
Ask an Archivist: "How do you find the hot old-picture guys?" -
Servicey!
The wonderful Ask an Archivist over at The Hairpin answers the essential question of our age:
“Since archivists try to keep the title a photograph was originally given, unless the ghost is searching the Playgirl Collection (yowza!), using words like “hot” or even “attractive” in the search box won’t work.”
Knowledge! Here’s a tip that I’ve used: try and find hot professions, like baseball player, flying ace, poet, or thief.
Flying ace: always a sexy profession.
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What You Hopefully Did Months Ago:
I might have to go pick up the science fiction issue from the grocery store.
(via butthorn)
“When I went to my very first sf convention, which was Worldcon in 1966, I’d already published six or seven novels. A very young man came up to me and said, ‘You wrote a book called Babel-17?’ I said ‘Yes, indeed I did.’ He said, ‘That stuff, where three people get together and they all do it at once … is that possible?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And he gave an immense sigh of relief and turned around and walked away. At which point I thought, ‘I am doing something right.’”
—Samuel R. Delany
Those boots! That skirt! Those glasses! Old school Reed science people were so stylin’.
(Source: oldereed)
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Happy Memorial Day.
No explanation to this pic, just the fact that it’s awesome.
(Source: thethirdcockcrowing, via godsprofoundestpeons)