Pre-Smiths Morrissey cultivating the melancholy persona that we all know and love today.

Source: Miserable in Manchester: Amusing Letters and Music Reviews from a Young Morrissey | Dangerous Minds

A View of St Pauls from the South Banks of the River Thames. Photo: Christopher Pollard

“There will be new maps and compasses for those of us who leave, new points of departure that will eventually become wholly real. But at the end of my most recent visit, as I flew out of Heathrow, over the tower blocks and the discs of green parkland and the sweep of the motorway, I caught a glimpse of a bend in the Thames, so familiar and so alien, and I wondered if it had all been a trick of the light.”
— Mahesh Rao

Source: London Lost and Found – The New York Times

Photo: Shoji Moriwaki, Creative Commons 2.0

A call to arms that challenges young, idealistic Americans who wish to solve problems in far-flung places to think about channeling their noble, social entrepreneurial energy at home to tackle the many complex problems that our country faces.

Basically a compelling 9 minute Saturday night read.

Source: The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems — The Development Set — Medium

London-based comedy writers Aaron Gillies and James Menzies create brutally honest ad parodies and share them on a Twitter account titled We Fix Your Adverts. Using Photoshop, they replace (or ‘fix’) the original tagline with their own one-liners that are hilariously profane. Warning: Some images are NSFW.

Source: LOL: Brutally Honest Versions Of Regular Ads | Digital Synopsis

“I got a girl in the Castle and one in the pagoda
You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda.”
– Beastie Boys

Source: Abe Vigoda, of ‘Godfather’ and ‘Barney Miller,’ Dies at 94 | New York Times