Pasadena Pictures

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Zach Urbina
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my recent stuff

  • Los Angeles I'm Yours
  • Tecca
  • narrative nonfiction
  • photography
  • public talks
  • NYC videos
  • LA videos

    stuff I found

  • brilliant
  • instant vintage
  • art
  • literature

    personal passions

  • New York City
  • science & technology
  • my public library
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    more of my published writing

  • The Awl
  • Epic Magazine
  • Lifeboat Foundation blog
  • 944 Magazine

    clubs I belong to

  • Lifeboat Foundation
  • Service-oriented architecture
  • Hudson Union Society

    blogs I read

  • the New Shelton Wet/Dry
  • Burning Settlers Cabin
  • the New Inquiry
  • La blogothèque
  • Nieman Journalism Lab
  • xkcd
  • Sunset Gun
  • Prospero
  • Unremitting Failure

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    “The most important thing of our marriage is this continuous excitement, this wonderful creature called Elizabeth who fills me with spiritual and physical joy every time I see her. Her spirit bubbles with an inner force like life itself and not like champagne which goes flat after a while.” - Richard Burton, 1967

    (via bbook)

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    “I was raised to be charming, not sincere.” - Stephen Sondheim

    illustration“Cuba announced Thursday it is allowing the purchase and sale of real estate for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes ushered in by President Raul Castro.

    …Castro has also allowed citizens to go into business for themselves in a number of approved jobs — everything from party clowns to food vendors to accountants — and has pledged to streamline the state-dominated economy by eliminating half a million government workers.

    …Since no property market was allowed, the rules have meant that for decades Cubans could only exchange property through complicated barter arrangements, or through even murkier black-market deals.” continue reading | Mises Economic Blog

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    “A book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.”

    Patrick O’Brian

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    “I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.” | Mindy Kaling, The New Yorker [image:source]

    “I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.” | Mindy Kaling, The New Yorker

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    “An area of descriptive illumination against the backdrop of a sea of infinite dark.” | Jonathan Lethem

    Brilliant watercolor work by Cate Parr, a fashion illustrator born and educated in England. Currently living in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. more here

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