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gq:

It’s National Grilled Cheese month. Celebrate accordingly.

Well everyone, it’s National Grilled Cheese month! What are some of your favorite spots in which to get down on a great grilled cheese?

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fycharleston:

Fried chicken from Martha Lou’s1068 Morrison Drive

Get it while it’s hot.

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neil-gaiman:

photovoltaicarray:

In SimCity 2000, selecting the “Ruminate” option in the information box for Library buildings would get you this special essay by Neil Gaiman.
Source/special thanks: http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/sc2kng.htm

That was when you put “2000” at the end of things to show you were talking about the future…

On cities, by Neil Gaiman

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anniesoga:

interior of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, WA, ca. 1900-1910
(from Wikipedia):
The shop was founded in 1899 by J. E. “Daddy” Standley (born February 24, 1854, in Steubenville, Ohio). He had already traded somewhat in curios and Indian goods as a grocer in Denver, Colorado. When he moved to Seattle in 1899 because his wife’s health required a lower altitude, he encountered a boom town supplying and benefitting from the Klondike Gold Rush. He founded the business in 1899. An exhibit at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P Exposition) in Seattle drew tourists, scholars, anthropologists and collectors and was enormous publicity for his already somewhat famous shop. It also won Standley a gold medal in the category of ethnological collections.
Standley’s shop presented a jumbled mix of curiosities and significant art objects. He collected and sold what came his way, but also had local Native American artists make objects to his specifications. He sold genuine Tlingit totem poles, but also replicas by carvers descended from the Vancouver Island-based Nuu-chah-nulth tribe, who were living in Seattle, and even inexpensive souvenir totem poles made in Japan. A flair for the bizarre and grotesque led him to include items such as shrunken heads from the Amazon (some of them definitely genuine, others probably not).

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop puts the OLDE in Old! This place is crazy and tacky and fascinating. A claustrophobe’s nightmare, but a nicknack and weird stuff lover’s dream.

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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

— Gabrielle Zevin (via travels-with-charley)

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nickjtom:

Seattle Public Library - Beacon Hill

Seattle - we’ve totally got the prettiest libraries.

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