meet tony wroten

the i love memphis blog interviewed the newest and youngest grizzly, and he is clearly 19 years old. in his answers he says he misses his mom, and proceeds to ask the interviewer where he can go to get italian food and play video games. then he asks if memphis has an amusement park. time to grow up tony wroten. #gogrizz

love letter to coney island

robert kolodny paints this picture of coney island today. i want to go there. via

more creepy abandoned stuff!

Of his most ambitious endeavor and what could be considered America's greatest utopian project of the twentieth century, Disneyland, Walt Disney observed, "clocks and watches will lose all meaning, for there is no present. There are only yesterday, tomorrow, and the timeless land of fantasy." What better words, then, to describe this abandoned theme park, located at the fringes of Beijing’s sprawl. (via)

goodness, i'm terrified.