Richard Siken, “the Language Of The Birds” / Chris Schoonover / Nikki Giovanni, “hands: For Mother’s

old to-do’s and brain dumps

So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

Good afternoon from a cozy Peachy baby

Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literature’s long-term survival 

u know ur fucked when u skip every song

St Petersburg, Russia, 1985—1987

how lucky do two people have to be in order to fall for each other at exactly the right time in exactly the right way