Summer Solstice at the Pantheon (@ eternallycool.net)
CAIRO — The McDonald’s here has golden arches, the same golden arches as anywhere else in the world. The food is prepared the same assembly-line way, too. But there is an invisible, or more precisely, divine, element in bringing that burger to the plate that the uninitiated may not be prepared for. “Inshallah,” or “God willing,” the counterman said as he walked off to see about a burger without onions … — Cairo Journal: With a Word, Egyptians Leave It All to Fate (NY Times)
Found on Flickr: Hotel Arora in Kusadasi (via spongynathe1)
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Recently discovered: from the photobooth at Molly’s, circa 1999 (via the boyfriend)
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Industrial-Strength Art (Slate)
Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his ‘vicious’ mother and rumours of a secret love child (The Independent)