Hilary Brooke Shepherd

see-ya-in-another-life:

best eminem impression i have ever heard in my life.

jezebelcom:

Two little boys who were literally swept out of the arms of their mother during the hurricane have been found dead. But that’s not the whole story, and it gets even sadder: 39-year-old Glenda Moore, the mother of the two boys (pictured above with her husband, Damian), knocked on doors in her Staten Island neighborhood, begging for help during the hurricane. No one would assist her, her sister claims.

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I wrote an essay for Columbia Journalism Review about media coverage of suicides.

merelywires:

It’s specifically about Buzzfeed, Gawker and Mediaite’s decision to repost a video of a man shooting himself on live TV. If we’re being real, though, it’s a piece I’ve wanted to write since I was 17.

There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day — that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till night-time; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.

teenvogue:

Two trends emerging for spring: Midriffs and transparency. Here, the former at Cushnie et Ochs

Photographed by Jane Keltner de Valle

Me miserable! which way shall I fly

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;

And in the lowest deep a lower deep

Still threat’ning to devour me opens wide,

To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav’n.

[John Milton, Paradise Lost]

7sobm:

Alexander McQueen. talking about memorable holograms..  7

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smellslikehollywood:

“That man must be so handsome when he blushes”

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