Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates Tumblr (3.0; @sgf)http://sgf.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll2bltuH6f1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amazing light in Brooklyn</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5411412833http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5411412833Thu, 12 May 2011 03:13:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkub83Sgtt1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hakeem Olajuwon’s Birthpace - Lagos, Nigeria</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5280604908http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5280604908Sat, 07 May 2011 19:24:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkhcofEqaS1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New Delhi, India</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5077387213http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/5077387213Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:50:33 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljqovvOrtA1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Siena, Italy</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4655821246http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4655821246Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:55:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljpwbnAezL1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Siena, Italy</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4644487564http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4644487564Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:38:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljppngY1mi1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Crostini with Sheep’s Milk Cheese, Pears, and Honey in Siena, Italy</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4641034453http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4641034453Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:14:04 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljm5ovNDrj1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tagliata in Perugia, Italy</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4591276820http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4591276820Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:10:04 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljm5o76fNW1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Putin Graffiti in Belgrade</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4591265946http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4591265946Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:09:02 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljbc9pWzy21qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Putin Graffiti in Belgrade</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4432505771http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4432505771Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:58:30 -0400“And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw" target="_blank">http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw</a></em>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4024640786http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/4024640786Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:17:32 -0400“He says: when you go to a Cuban marketplace, your first instinct is to catalog everything you see, especially the stuff that’s typical of a third-world market place. But his advice is to find the one thing that isn’t typical. The example he uses is of a cockfight, where one of the handlers is literally putting the chicken’s head in his mouth and blowing into the chicken, which—not surprisingly—enrages the chicken. And when you get that one odd detail, the whole marketplace will spring up in the reader’s mind. All of the commonplace things—you know, the stalls, the dirt path, the dead pigs and so on—will be supplied by your mind.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/george_saunders_interview_20070831/" target="_blank">http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/george_saunders_interview_20070831/</a></em>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/3663881379http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/3663881379Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:53:06 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lezh1eQyD01qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2734710691http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2734710691Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:55:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le4d8fKvx71qz4b3oo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sickest desk ever via <a href="http://roselandgreene.blogspot.com/2010/12/luxe.html" target="_blank">Roseland Greene</a></p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2492003927http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2492003927Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:48:15 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldqnrom5Gf1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Duck Benedict at Bongo Room in Chicago</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2390139459http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2390139459Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:09:08 -0500<iframe width="400" height="245" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UUVFZYYzHPU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUVFZYYzHPU&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Barry Sanders Ultimate Highlight Video</a> </p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2167079359http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/2167079359Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:55:11 -0500“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway" target="_blank">Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway</a> (via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/" target="_blank">Instapaper</a>)</em>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1703860923http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1703860923Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:55:28 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc9bkuuigT1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Maybe the best dish ever</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1641537357http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1641537357Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:53:04 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc9bkdh1w01qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amatriciana at Lilli in Rome</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1641534726http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1641534726Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:53:04 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_larble1FtZ1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Rock and the Moon</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1382953122http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1382953122Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:03:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la7nbwXrjm1qz4b3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Best swimming pool ever: Bondi Beach</p>http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1303700961http://sgf.tumblr.com/post/1303700961Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:04:36 -0400