Built on the backs of dead peasants.Tumblr (3.0; @hungryghoast)http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktl27jjU8Q1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>been waiting all day to bust out of here</b></p> <p>off to train. also: goddamn do i love <i>Kung Fu Hustle</i></p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/264004395http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/264004395Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:36 -0500kung fumovieskung fu hustletraining<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxq555qp61qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=8023" target="_blank">best yet</a>.</b></p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263718955http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263718955Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:31:53 -0500t-shirtWarren Ellisstab<p><a href="http://riazm.tumblr.com/post/263342595/list-of-gangster-names-in-the-film-as-tears-go" target="_blank">riazm</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>List of gangster names in the film <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/As+Tears+Go+By" target="_blank">As Tears Go By</a>:</p> <ul> <li>Tubby</li> <li>Skinny</li> <li>Mr Aeroplane</li> <li>Fly</li> <li>Big Mouth Kay</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>These are not, in the least, <a href="http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/32444811/actual-gangster-names-from-la-cosa-nostra" target="_blank">that far from the truth of it</a>.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263650570http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263650570Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:10:12 -0500mafialanguagenicknames“I don’t know what to do about life. If that ad is OK, then I give up.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Roommate regarding Levi’s Go Forth <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBsV8wAEhw" target="_blank">campaign</a>. (via <a href="http://katecast.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">katecast</a>)</p> <p>Tell her not to sweat. It’s pretty far from OK, as most of those sorts of things are. So much of it all is pretty far from OK.</p></em>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263636493http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263636493Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:53:05 -0500advertisingbrandingconsumerismwtfWalt WhitmanLevisAmerica<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxk9rYGyt1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Carroll Gardens Challenge</b></p> <p>it’s possible that I would pay to see this throwdown. via <a href="http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2009/11/challenge.html" target="_blank">Lost City</a>.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263612177http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263612177Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:25:01 -0500coffeeBrooklynviolence<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxj5gJDho1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/bruce-is-great.html" target="_blank"><b>I’m with Joe</b></a></p> <p>as usual. also, I love his signature. (via <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/" target="_blank">Letters of Note</a>)</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263591303http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/263591303Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:00:52 -0500musicJoe StrummerBruce Springsteencorrespondence<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktwk4wlttr1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>‘crime is a man-made stream’</b></p> <p>Will Eisner’s <i>The Spirit</i>… Nobody quite did a gutter p.o.v. like Eisner could. (via <a href="http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Golden Age Comic Book Stories</a>)</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/262963757http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/262963757Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:24:32 -0500Will EisnerThe Spiritcomicscrime<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktw5h4JImL1qz9wf9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tmv.proto.jp/#id=hungryghoast" target="_blank"><b>I made a Tumblr picture mosaic</b></a></p> <p>you can too, click through and change the url accordingly.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/262556336http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/262556336Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:07:00 -0500Tumblrmosaic<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt6l6swN6r1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Friday Night Fights: It’s a matter of technique.</b></p> <p><i>Dark Reign, The List: Wolverine</i> #1</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259534999http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259534999Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500violencecomicsWolverineNohvarrFantomexFriday Night Fights<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktradgxJca1qz9wf9o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><i>Notorious</i> (1946)</b></p> <p>Hitchcock, the master of Suspense/Horror/Irony. To me he’s mostly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSD5-Zy4_LY" target="_blank">Hitchcock, the master of a damn-fine make out scene</a>.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259226623http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259226623Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:05:00 -0500Cary GrantHitchchockIngrid BergmanNotoriousfilmkissnoirslim<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktr1ojRg8S1qzkiaoo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://6h057.net/post/259040189/if-you-dont-know-what-im-talking-about-youre" target="_blank">6h057</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you don’t know what I’m talking about you’re not a man and/or you have no soul.</p> </blockquote> <p>Why do I fight? Cuz I can’t sing or dance. Hey, oh!</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259049234http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/259049234Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:06:16 -0500RockyThanksgiving<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktorz44CnT1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Fight Night.</b></p> <p>Apollo’s a bit outclassed here and it looks like he knows it. Off to the gwoon for the last fight night of the month.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257413822http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257413822Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:33:04 -0500trainingboxingBSGApolloHelofighting<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktok1n2nuc1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>GPOYW - The City Wing Tsun Family edition</b></p> <p>Taken at the big banquet. I’m the one in a tie, of course.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257239440http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257239440Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:41:47 -0500familyGPOYWWing Tsun<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksyoy2mEed1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>‘skin on skin, their secrets fell away with the night.’</b></p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257073061http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257073061Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:47:49 -0500comicsnoirSandman Mystery Theatre<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktnzeeTdZN1qzpt5vo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>‘even death may die’</b></p> <p><a href="http://thepublics.tumblr.com/post/256860709" target="_blank">thepublics</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/" target="_blank"><b>James Jirat Patradoon</b></a></p> </blockquote>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257056402http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257056402Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:28:49 -0500H.P. LovecraftNecronomiconartillustrationskeleton<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktnrvufbwE1qzgyq3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>just so we’re clear on how this works.</b></p> <p><a href="http://jhnbrssndn.tumblr.com/post/257005698/via-clingtomymouth" target="_blank">jhnbrssndn</a>: (via <a href="http://clingtomymouth.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">clingtomymouth</a>)</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257021539http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/257021539Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:56 -0500IsraelPalestinebullshit<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmxwpai0S1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Jacob Wrestles With The Angel, <a title="Alexander Louis Leloir" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Louis_Leloir" target="_blank">Alexander Louis Leloir</a></b> (1865)</p> <p>my preferred version. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_063.jpg" target="_blank">The Rembrandt version</a> communicates no violence and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_137.jpg" target="_blank">the Gaugin version</a> is totally weaksauce. Yeah, I went there, You art-history kids can eat me. Anyway, I’m off to the gwoon.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/256109353http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/256109353Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:46:01 -0500JacobartLeloirRembrandtangelsfightingviolencetraining<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/255945163/tumblr_ktmq57MyAi1qz9wf9&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Lee Fields - Money I$ King</b></p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/nyregion/25yards.html?_r=2&hp" target="_blank"><i>Right or wrong don’t mean a thing</i></a></p> <p><a href="http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2009/11/greed-makes-landlords-stupid.html" target="_blank"><i>It’s a sad sad world when money is king.</i></a></p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255945163http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255945163Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:58:00 -0500Atlantic YardsBrooklynLee FieldsMoney Is KingNew York Citybullshitcapitalismeminent domainlandlordslawmusicsoul<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmhf5bcwW1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>new WBA Champ Yuri Foreman now seeking to become a rabbi.</b></p> <p>and Jacob wrestled with an angel (or God, depending on how phrased) and fought with his brother Esau in the womb, so why not? <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/11/24/2009-11-24_full_of_the_fighting_spirit_boxer_contends_he_can_be_rabbi.html" target="_blank">The article makes it sound like Yuri is far wiser than the critic, rabbinical scholars of Brooklyn</a> in large part THANKS to his work in the ring.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255786556http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255786556Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:49:00 -0500boxingfightingreligionrabbiJudaismBrooklynangelsJacob<p><a href="http://stevencloud.com/post/255647691/13yo-runaway-spent-11-days-in-the-subways" target="_blank">stevencloud</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one. (Via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/nyregion/24runaway.html" target="_blank">NY Times</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>If there’s a modern day Dos Passos he’s writing this boy’s story.</p>http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255742495http://hungryghoast.tumblr.com/post/255742495Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:59:05 -0500writingpovertyhomelessNew York CitymorewritingDos Passos