hotparade:

William Mortensen - Jean Harlow, ca. 1927

surisburnbook:

This is nice — in lieu of registering for baby gifts, Shakira and her boyfriend Gerard Piqué are requesting donations to UNICEF on behalf of their to-be-born son.

“To celebrate the arrival of our first child, we hope that, in his name, other less privileged children in the world can have their basic needs covered through gifts and donations.”

Donations will cover mosquito nets, food, and other relief efforts for children around the world. (Hopefully poor Penelope Disick is on the list.)

Of course, Shakira also included a picture of herself and Gerard semi-undressed, because why not?

Nice sentiment Shakira!

The New Normal is Flux
tougas.net

Post­ed by renee



This past New Year’s, in the heady rush of post-holiday orga­ni­za­tion and plan­ning, I wrote a cou­ple posts about inten­tions. Look­ing back on my fall inten­tions and look­ing for­ward to my win­ter inten­tions.

My…

Leo, zenhabits.net

Post writ­ten by Leo Babau­ta.

If you’re like me, you are con­stant­ly learn­ing new skills — gar­den­ing, car­pen­try, pizza-making, lan­guages, sports, and so on. And I think this is a fun and won­der­ful thing to do.

But what’s the most…

Chocolate-Chip Cookie Pie… without sugar!
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Happy Birth­day!

To cel­e­brate a birth­day, one often eats pie. But what do you eat when the birth­day is for the pie, itself? While it may seem odd to com­mem­o­rate such an occa­sion at all, my deep-dish cook­ie pie—which came i…

@myEN

travelswithanineyearold.com

As a child of the 70s, who grew up in the 80s, Beirut has all the mag­i­cal allure of the for­bid­den that China did. And, rather as on our first day in Kun­ming, I looked out of our 32nd storey win­dow and thought, “My god! I’m in China!” …

The Dangers Of Talking About Weird Japan
tofugu.com

When I write for Tofugu, I ask myself a lot of ques­tions to make sure I’m writ­ing a good post.

Is this topic inter­est­ing to me? Will this be inter­est­ing to other peo­ple? Is the post too short? Too long? Is the title right? Etc., etc..

M…

How to be a Baka Gaijin (in the House)
tofugu.com

In our last edi­tion of how to be a baka gai­jin we explored the fine art of being a baka gai­jin on trains. So you’ve made it through the gru­el­ing ordeal that is your train ride and you’ve final­ly arrived at your des­ti­na­tion. What’s this?…