Mar 11 '10
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“At five a.m. (how fair and sweet and fresh the earth looks in the early morning! Those lazy people who lie in bed till eight or nine miss half the beauty of the day, if they but knew it. It is only we who rise early that really enjoy Nature properly) I gave up trying to get to sleep…”
— From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome
Mar 10 '10
★
Wicked Campers
How is this not the greatest idea ever? These guys buy up old vans, do a camper conversion, give ‘em a mural paint job to cover any old dents and rent them out for trips. Hope they expand to more cities in the US soon.
Mar 10 '10
Mar 8 '10
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“In 1885 Senator Henry Dawes made a tour of Indian reservations in Oklahoma and delivered his report to the Lake Mohonk Conference – an annual gathering of influential whites who called themselves ‘friends of the Indian’, and were dedicated to advancing their red brethren towards white civilisation. The senator brought dispiriting news: ‘There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilisation.’ The tribes were still living within communal social structures. They were still sharing all their food and possessions with their kinfolk. They were more impressed by displays of generosity than the accumulation of private wealth.
‘We need to awaken in him [the Indian] wants,’ said another conferencee. ‘In his dull savagery he must be touched by the wings of the divine angel of discontent… Discontent with the teepee and the starving rations of the Indian camp in winter is needed to get the Indian out of the blanket and into trousers – and trousers with a pocket in them, and with a pocket that aches to be filled with dollars! … this is the first great step in the education of the race.’”
‘We need to awaken in him [the Indian] wants,’ said another conferencee. ‘In his dull savagery he must be touched by the wings of the divine angel of discontent… Discontent with the teepee and the starving rations of the Indian camp in winter is needed to get the Indian out of the blanket and into trousers – and trousers with a pocket in them, and with a pocket that aches to be filled with dollars! … this is the first great step in the education of the race.’”
— From Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads by Richard Grant
Mar 3 '10
![To my Canadian friends: “I’m sorry.” (There, that ought to do it.)
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