your fortnightly boat

the SS UNITED STATES!!!!

this beauty is the fastest ship ever invented, and it is rotting away in Philadelphia... but (maybe) not for long!

elian gonzalez is 21 and sexy and wants to come back to visit the US

ABC News Videos | ABC Entertainment News when he gets enough internet, he is going to open a facebook account.

GoT nerd stuff

there's one for every state. i like how hunger games-y ours is.

Tennessee! 50 and 50: The State Mottos Project

FIFTY AND FIFTY : THE STATE MOTTOS PROJECT @ ACE HOTEL NEW YORK GALLERY

OPENING: TUESDAY, DEC 18th, 7-10PM 

The show at Ace Hotel New York will be the first time all 50 prints have been seen together in physicality. Prints can be purchased at SOCIETY6.COM

Fifty and Fifty is a curated project by Dan Cassaro which attempts to construct a handsome new way of looking at our country. Fifty designers, one per state, will illustrate their state motto, creating something steeped in history but completely modern and unique: a kind of designer's atla

see all 50 here. via

richard lawson says what i've been thinking about the RNC

"You realize, watching this seething mass of people, that the secret, the economics stage show, is for us, on the outside. All the fiscal talk is for our benefit. Everyone in that room really knows what's being spoken about: Getting lazy poor people off their teat, sticking it to those gays, making sure we don't have to pay for some slut's sinful abortion. For all the cheer and cowboy hats and smiles and Christian blessings, this is an angry, aggressive group. And they are, or at least have been chosen to represent, nominally half of us. Half of us here in this country."

read the whole article here
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you're welcome.

An interesting tidbit from the Atlantic shows why poor states in the US don't drag down the entire US economy the way that poor countries in the European Union do. Basically, states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, and California get back about $0.75 per dollar they pay to the federal government in taxes, whereas states like Kansas, Tennessee and Missouri (probably Alabama, Mississippi and Georiga as well) get back anywhere from $1.10-1.30 for every dollar they pay in federal taxes. Basically, Tennessee is the Greece of the United States.

 

















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sufjan stevens abandons the states for the planets

listen to two new songs (neptune and jupiter (the gas giant)) above, part of a new song cycle celebrating the solar system. convieved and composed with bryce dessner and nico muhly.

oh my god he is so cute. more here.

50 states : 50 designs

50 and 50 project

what we got out of the state of the union

Right after President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, we asked our listeners to describe his speech in three words. We received responses from more than 4,000 of you. We've run them through a word cloud generator and this is what all of you said:


inspiring salmon

what should YOU be ashamed of?

Based on Census statistics and America's Health Rankings, Jeff Wysaski discovered at least one unsavory category where each U.S. state ranked dead last. Whether it's porn usage, identity theft, or good old fashioned alcoholism, you can now see where your state excels — and where you may want to move. via. source.

utah?

more like UTAH-rus!!!

am i right?!

the 50 states project

"Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and their State. " (via)

embassy art

here's a new york times article and slideshow reporting the history of art installations at US embassies around the world.

rebranding america

paper magazine compiled 15 designs for a new image for the US.