Stephen's Blog

taketheatrain:

It feels strange at first. You start walking around and noticing things that were always there, that you just didn’t see for a while. Things like the colour of the sky or the way the sun light reflects off of a building at a certain time of day. You start noticing people again. The shape of them,…

ordinarywonder:

Royal lived his life like he was facing the End Days. In many ways, he felt like a lone survivor. To indulge this fantasy, he sequestered himself away, in self-imposed exile. As if he was avoiding the nasty fallout of (wo)man’s nuclear folly.

His one room apartment, which was sparsely…

dangatorium:

By Bill Dixon

When I was a teenager, I was a big Limp Bizkit fan and I’m not ashamed to say it. It was music that fit snugly into the psychological 3-ring binder of adolescence alongside other color coded tabs: angry, horny, angsty, subversive, fuck mom and dad (see: subversive), fuck…

maggiecroushore:

Several years ago I discovered sweet potatoes and have not been able to stop having them ever since! Sweet potatoes are a delicious and healthy alternative to regular potatoes. They are particularly great to eat after a workout as a recovery food! I make them several ways; the recipe below is the…

shortformblog:

Mail Online, with its parade of celebrities in their bathing suits, gained six million viewers between December and January alone. American traffic was up sixty-two per cent last year. Its home page has become furtively prevalent in Manhattan cubicles. In January, when Mail Online surpassed the Times, a spokeswoman for the latter said, “A quick review of our site versus the Daily Mail should indicate quite clearly that they are not in our competitive set.” The Mail’s contention is that American newspapers have become too effete to prosper. Its ambitions transcend Pulitzers. “They’re not in our competitive set, to be honest,” Martin Clarke, the editor of Mail Online, said when I asked him about the Times. “I did think they were spectacularly sore losers, but I could not care less if we overtake the Times. What matters to me is: Are we bigger than MSN? Are we bigger than Yahoo?”

Basically, The Mail doesn’t think in terms of other newspapers, but in terms of itself, which has worked to its benefit.