i think that we as a society are slowly losing the battle against people who think it's ok to pull out their phones at the movie theater and we need to fight back

In a January 2007 meeting with Angela Merkel, Putin brought in his Labrador in front of the German Chancellor, who has a phobia of dogs.

Upgrade your thoughts; they shape the world around you.

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

#NationalGrammarDay

Pug Dog in an Armchair, by French painter Alfred de Dreux (1857). Hermitage Museum.

Casa Butantã, 1991 Sao Paulo.
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha
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Rain in art...

— Sylvia Plath

Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview

Hopper 1951.
(one in a series of relatively little-known Hopper paintings)

You are getting distracted again,

focus.

I am alive at night. I am dead in the morning, an old vessel who used up her oil, bleak and pale boned. No miracle. No dazzle.

Separation, 1894 botfrens.com/collections/90…

'One of the finest things for me in all my life has been to close a door and to be in a room without anybody else about.' - Charles Bukowski

Drug Store, 1927 botfrens.com/collections/17…

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.

take care, eat steak 10/18/56