August 13, 20159 yr ^^^ Pretty, when they said that Valentino was getting a roast, I didn't think it was literal! (Points to whoever gets this joke)
August 14, 20159 yr Meet the man who wants to know what life’s like as a goat http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/13/meet-the-man-who-wants-to-know-what-lifes-like-as-a-goat-5341973/?ito=facebook Thwaites said: ‘Posthumanism, transhumanism technology and stuff, is about allowing humans to achieve their desires in a way. ‘And I guess [some people’s] desires aren’t necessarily to become super intelligent.’
August 15, 20159 yr This FAO toy store was an absolute paradise for children. It's been closed. Brings back childhood memories of going to the "greatest toy store on earth". From WSJ article May 19, 2015 There are few constants in the life of this shape-shifting city. But since time immemorial, or close enough as we of mere flesh and blood need to be concerned, FAO Schwarz has been at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 58th Street. I realize the store isn’t technically on the corner, but for kids of all ages, the anticipation starts at the corner—if not at that even vaster crossroads, the mind’s eye..... I’ve been an FAO Schwarz customer for well over a half-century. Indeed, I suspect that when I came home from the hospital in a baby blanket my bassinet was stocked with rattles or stuffed animals from that Shangri-La of kids’ stuff. In more recent years, I’ve been visiting FAO Schweetz on the ground floor at regular intervals to stock up on overpriced penny candy. The selection is no different or better than at dozens of other places across the city. But passing through the store’s portals, after exchanging pleasantries with that toy soldier doorman or whatever he is, I experienced the narcotic neocortal exhilaration, the remnants of fairy dust on the forest floor of my distant childhood. I’m still not doing the place justice. Because, in the life of many New Yorkers, it was actually much more than a store. It served as the realization of a type of impossible dream.
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