At The BookCon Kickoff With Panel From "This Is Where I Leave You" At #bea14 Featuring Tina Fey, Jason

Seeing this always brings peace of mind, no? #BritishAirways

Teller tells the audience at the American Repertory Theater that this production of "The Tempest" started with "Sleep No More".

Ben Taylor holds court at #Consenses concert to celebrate his sister #SallyTaylor's art installation at Wellesley College. #AndThenThisHappened

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Milk Pun #5

Look at this amazing GIF tapestry of Oscar loser reaction shots. We are excerpting Sally Kirkland’s because hers is the best (did she honestly think she would beat Cher?). Via Dan Kois

Now view our Oscar coverage, all weekend.

LL Bean Knots? Not? Yet! I can Knot! 

#pencils writing.

Ted Williams knew how to get on base…just like David Ortiz. 

The Kid’s goal: Get on base

 An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: [Ted] Williams’s hitting credo was simple: get a good pitch to hit. Critics said he followed this rule to the extreme by refusing to chase a pitch that was even an inch off the strike zone, thereby hurting his team by having its best hitter often pass up an opportunity to drive a runner home. But Ted made the slippery slope counter-argument: that if he chased a pitch an inch from the plate, it would only encourage pitchers to throw two inches outside the zone, then three inches, and so on. History has vindicated Ted’s approach, as there is now broad acceptance of the value of reaching base, or on-base-percentage, a statistic that was not appreciated and barely even kept in Williams’s day. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams happily crossing home plate at Fenway Park, 1939. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library - Leslie Jones Collection.)

Can't wait for this book to come out. benbradleejr-blog:

Exclusive Excerpt from “The Kid” by Ben Bradlee, Jr.

The Kid appeared in the small room on the night of July 5th, 2002. Video cameras rolled, and the flashbulbs popped – just as if he were making another star turn of the sort he had made so many times throughout his celebrated life.

About 30 people had anxiously awaited the arrival of Ted Williams – the great Teddy Ballgame himself: American icon, last of the .400 hitters, war hero, world class fisherman, enfant terrible with the perfectionist persona. Yet, this was no press conference, no card show, no charity event or meet-and-greet where Ted would wave and say a few words to his faithful.

For he was dead, after all. Quite dead.

Wow! Just wow!

Creative Fashion Illustrations, Edgar Artis

Armenian fashion illustrator Edgar Artis has set some high dress standards with these amazing sketches he creates using stylized paper cut outs and everyday objects.

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