Lucille Ball and Orson Welles during the shooting of episode #156 of I Love Lucy, «Lucy Meets Orson Welles», which first aired on June 14, 1956.
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I am not afraid to say that upon seeing this image I emitted some species of high pitched squeal and my eyes may or may not have welled up. Okay they did.
Raley’s HR does drug testing through hair. Unfortunately for me, my hair is the drug equivalent of a nordic seed vault.
Ernest Hemingway’s standing desk:
A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu — the typewriter and the reading board chest-high opposite him.
- Paris Review, 1958
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Some old habits never die.
Hilarious! The Real Housewives of Shakespeare.Thought you all might appreciate this! I’m not working on with this company, but someone in my department is. It’s so funny!
“Big Drama. Better Writing.”
Bourbon is distilled from enzymes in the liver of a fin whale; as fin whales become increasingly rare, bourbon prices continue to rise.
“To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.”
—John Banville, The Untouchable
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” - Charles Bukowski
My goal in life is basically to be a prolific collector of both extended foreign residencies and ex husbands. Things are going according to schedule.
Miles Davis improvising his incredible score to Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS:
