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kweeneverything:

Seriously I can’t handle your sexy sometimes Brad Pitt. 

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abstraktmarketinggroup:

Raeder Place Building – 1873 (719-727 N. First Street)

National Historic Landmark

the site of the famous Missouri Hotel where the First Missouri Legislature was held on September 20, 1820. This assembly preceded the state’s August 10, 1821 admission into the Union. In 1831, the hotel’s owner, Major Thomas Biddle, was killed in a dual with Spencer Pettis on Bloody Island, a “neutral zone” sandbar in the middle of the Mississippi River. The current six-story building, which once housed Christian Peper Tobacco Company, is unique in its use of simple Victorian cast iron design to produce large amounts of window space and light in the building.

We’re thrilled that we get to call this location home. 

alotofchusetts:

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be-stl:

Finally someone in Chicago understands the value of visiting St. Louis. Aimee Levitt over at the Chicago Reader wrote a fantastic St. Louis travel guide from a Chicago perspective. 

Read the guide here. 

Best line: “If we had a City Museum here in Chicago, we’d never shut up about it.”

Favorite part:

“Saint Louisans, though, only become obnoxious braggarts when the subject of their baseball team comes up. Even the most devout Cubs fan must admit it’s a good one. (Yes, I was there when they won the World Series in 2011 and, yes, I cheered like a lunatic.) Catch a game, if you can, and swelter in the heat like real Saint Louisans do. If you wear Cubs paraphernalia to Busch Stadium, Cards fans won’t even heckle. They’ll just laugh at you in a gently condescending way. Sort of like the way Chicagoans laugh at Saint Louis.”

((Starting tomorrow I’m going to be sans computer over the weekend while I’m in the lovely city of St. Louis for my bother’s college graduation.  Rumor has it that either George Bush or Jerry Seinfeld is going to be the commencement speaker.  If either one ends up being true I’m going to end up laughing.

This week has been kind of crazy, but I’ll get on replies and some of these asks in my box soon as I get back. Everyone have a good weekend!  I’m going to miss you all while I’m gone!))

safetonavigate:

They think that they have ruined us. But really, those daft old fellows of ”The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass., have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have have expelled Huck from their library as ‘trash and suitable only for the slums.’ That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure.”

abdito:

Barren Fork in Ozark County, not looking all that baren. Rural Ozark County, Missouri (photo by Aaron J Scott)

fotoedge:

The Great Hall of Water’s Bar on Flickr.

The Great Hall of Water’s Bar ~ Excelsior Springs, Missouri USA ~ Copyright ©2013 Bob Travaglione. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ~ www.FoToEdge.com

Anonymous asked: What kind of music do you like to listen to, anyway?

Oh, I listen to a little bit of everything.  Blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, some folk if it ain’t too folksy, rock— eh, I guess it’s considered classic rock nowadays.  

St. Louie got me into rockabilly back in the 50s. She and Memphis used to play it together all the time.  They weren’t half bad either. Music in the 80s was an awful lot of fun!  I sorta miss those 10 minute long power ballads.  You could stop to get gas and they’d still be playin’ when ya started yer car again.  Anyway, the 80s were better soundin’ than all that sad stuff they came up with in the 90s.  Everything they play on the rock stations today sounds .  like everybody’s singin’ through a fan.  I guess it’s music.  I don’t know if you’d call it good.  

Oh, and I listen to Nelly.  He’s a big Cardinals fan.  :)

docmartn:

If it’s good enough for Dan…