A Spicy Little Korean

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:49:28 -0400

lebanesetana: Top 9 Photos of Barack Obama & food - asked...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:43:48 -0400

lebanesetana:

Top 9 Photos of Barack Obama & food - asked by powerlesbian

Favorite President.

laughingsquid: Katz’s Delicatessen Check.

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:53:07 -0400

laughingsquid:

Katz’s Delicatessen

Check.

sailsandstripes: Gonna do this someday. Check.

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:43:11 -0400

sailsandstripes:

Gonna do this someday.

Check.

"Fuck them is what I say. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:03:19 -0400

“Fuck them is what I say. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I...

theatlantic: “This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his...

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:58:23 -0400

theatlantic:

“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)

Inspiration.

"Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life."

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:57:39 -0400

“Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life.” - Maurice Sendak has died. We’re...

ilovecharts: I haven’t even read the books and I get this.

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:44:03 -0400

ilovecharts:

I haven’t even read the books and I get this.

firstbook: True.

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:04:52 -0400

firstbook:

True.

onestepdown: Lots of truth in here. Obama 2012. A look at the...

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:36:06 -0400

onestepdown:

Lots of truth in here. Obama 2012. A look at the facts will show you he’s done a tremendous job.

laughingsquid: Chicago, A Love Story

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:51:54 -0400

laughingsquid:

Chicago, A Love Story

barackobama: “I’m President Barack Obama. And I too want to...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:21:23 -0400

barackobama:

“I’m President Barack Obama. And I too want to slow-jam the news.”

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:58:20 -0400

teachingliteracy: meanwhile-imh

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:28:54 -0400

teachingliteracy:

meanwhile-imh

"1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in..."

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:05:41 -0400

“1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in...

"All I want to do is sing—and this, this here run, is likely the closest opportunity I will ever have..."

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:03:20 -0400

“All I want to do is sing—and this, this here run, is likely the closest opportunity I will...

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might..."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:29:15 -0400

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you...

theatlantic: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:59:44 -0400

theatlantic:

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Via Brainpickings/Reddit [Photo: AP]

npr: discoverynews: expose-the-light: Best Pictures Of A Baby...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:44:31 -0400

npr:

discoverynews:

expose-the-light:

Best Pictures Of A Baby Elephant Playing At A Beach Of All Time

My heart just melted and I died. RIP.

Oh my!

Elephants deserve a day at the beach too.

Squeeeeeee

theatlantic: Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:00:37 -0400

theatlantic:

Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death

Nine years after watching his mother’s hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric fence that surrounds Camp 14 and ran off through the snow into the North Korean wilderness. It was January 2, 2005. Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do it.

He was 23 years old and knew no one outside the fence.

Within a month, he had walked into China. Within two years, he was living in South Korea. Four years later, he was living in Southern California.

Stunted by malnutrition, he is short and slight — five feet six inches, about 120 pounds. His arms are bowed from childhood labor. His lower back and buttocks are scarred with burns from the torturer’s fire. The skin over his pubis bears a puncture scar from the hook used to hold him in place over the fire. His ankles are scarred by shackles, from which he was hung upside down in solitary confinement. His right middle finger is cut off at the first knuckle, a guard’s punishment for dropping a sewing machine in a camp garment factory. His shins, from ankle to knee on both legs, are mutilated and scarred by burns from the electrified barbed-wire fence that failed to keep him inside Camp 14.

Shin is roughly the same age as Kim Jong Un, the chubby third son of Kim Jong Il who took over as leader after his father’s death in 2011.

Shin was born a slave and raised behind a high-voltage barbed-wire fence. His mother beat him, and he viewed her as a competitor for food. His father, who was allowed by guards to sleep with his mother just five nights a year, ignored him. His older brother was a stranger. Children in the camp were untrustworthy and abusive. Before he learned anything else, Shin learned to survive by snitching on all of them.

Love and mercy and family were words without meaning.

Read more. [Image: AP]

A chilling account of the only person born into a North Korean prison camp and escape. It’ll leave you speechless.