Four lean hounds

Howls of protest, rhetorical cars chased, unsolicited leg humping, and the occasional vicious bite.

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I like to think that I didn’t do too much damage to either side.
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John Steinmetz, who died just short of his 87th birthday this week, describing his service in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

It was my privilege to know him for regrettably few of those many years. But during that brief time, I regularly encountered the great humor, humility and basic kindness of such a man who would describe his role in the largest armed conflict in human history like that. He worked hard, raised a great family, invited many more into his extended family, and remained lively in every way right to the end.

They don’t seem to make such gentlemen anymore, and the world is a poorer place for the loss.

-R.

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“Some people call this sport. I call it wanton, tragically unnecessary bloodshed.” Mechanix Illustrated, January 1959, via Modern Mechanix. -R.

“Some people call this sport. I call it wanton, tragically unnecessary bloodshed.”

Mechanix Illustrated, January 1959, via Modern Mechanix.

-R.

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John and Joe via the excellent StoryCorps Project. Also see the equally-heartbreaking She Was the One and Always a Family. 

-R.

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I’ve never seen this person before in my life. But if he and his comrades died as heroes - running towards the towers while everyone else was running away - he deserves his tribute, and I’ll gladly re-post it here. -R.

via diaryofmidge:

“Here’s a picture of me, just in case you forget my smile.”- Chris Blackwell.


Chris, I remember how you always used to call me sunshine, but now that’s exactly what you are, & I still remember your smile.

RIP 9/11 .

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From Astronaut Suicides by Neil DaCosta, via Wired. -R. View high resolution

From Astronaut Suicides by Neil DaCosta, via Wired.

-R.

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I’ll be watching you. -R. Jaroslav Panuška, Death Looking into the Window of One Dying, 1900.

I’ll be watching you.

-R.

Jaroslav Panuška, Death Looking into the Window of One Dying, 1900.

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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.  - George Borrow The late Evelyn McHale, looking uncannily serene after leaping to her death from the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. Photo by Robert Wiles, via ckck. -R.

If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.  - George Borrow

The late Evelyn McHale, looking uncannily serene after leaping to her death from the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. Photo by Robert Wiles, via ckck.

-R.

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via warispeace: Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) I am glad we have journalists who risk their lives everyday to uncover truths. If you have not seen Restrepo then you need to. Hetherington took the above photo for Vanity Fair while covering U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The photo would eventually go on to become the winner of the World Press Photo contest of 2007. 

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Tim Hetherington (1970-2011)

I am glad we have journalists who risk their lives everyday to uncover truths. If you have not seen Restrepo then you need to. Hetherington took the above photo for Vanity Fair while covering U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The photo would eventually go on to become the winner of the World Press Photo contest of 2007. 

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Andrew Wyeth’s “Public Sale” (1943) was inspired by an estate auction in Lancaster County, Pa., following the death of a farmer’s wife. It evokes the end of a family-run farm. via landlessness. View high resolution

Andrew Wyeth’s “Public Sale” (1943) was inspired by an estate auction in Lancaster County, Pa., following the death of a farmer’s wife. It evokes the end of a family-run farm.

via landlessness.

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