Hotel Echo Hotel

So a guy commits suicide, and he goes to heaven. He gets to heaven, and God greets him there, and the guy said, “I’m so surprised I’m here. First of all, I thought there was no God. Second of all, I thought if you killed yourself, you know, you were damned forever.” God said, “You know, that’s a complicated issue. Everybody at least thinks about ending it, you know, killing themselves at some point.” And God says, “Even I’ve thought of it.”

The guy said, “Can I ask, why didn’t you do it?”

And God said, “What if this is all there is?”

— Stephen Colbert

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theatlantic:

DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s

As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades had begun to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public began calling for action. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a massive photo documentary project, called DOCUMERICA, to record these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced. The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I’ve spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.
Above: Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a home located across the Kanawha River, near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973. (Harry Schaefer/NARA)

See more gritty images at In Focus

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

— Aldous Huxley

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Reblog this if you love “Community” and want NBC to keep one of their — and indeed, TV’s — few quality shows on the air.

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Mark Weaver

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This is Buckley.

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Drinking Water

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Quote of the Day

“Oops.”

- Rick Perry

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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I’m trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.

— Allen Ginsberg (“America”)

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Peace In Vietnam

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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
-David Lynch

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