Posts tagged: lovers and madmen
This is Hideaki Akaiwa. When the Tsunami hit his home town of Ishinomaki, Hideaki was at work. Realising his wife was trapped in their home, he ignored the advice of professionals, who told him to wait for the army to arrive to provide search and rescue.
Instead he found some scuba gear, jumped in the raging torrent - dodging cars, houses and other debris being dragged around by the powerful current, any of which could have killed him instantly - and navigated the now submerged streets in pitch dark, freezing water until he found his house. Swimming inside, he discovered his wife alive on the upper level with only a small amount of breathing room, and sharing his respirator, pulled her out to safety.
If he had waited for the army, his wife of 20 years would be dead.
Oh, and if that’s not enough badassery for one lifetime, Hideaki realised his mother was also unaccounted for, so jumped back in the water and managed to save her life also. Since then Hideaki enters the water everyday on a one man search and rescue mission, saving countless lives and proving that two natural disasters in a single day - and insurmountable odds - can’t stand in the way of love. This man is my hero.
Yeah, some people are posting all about what Tom Ford says makes a modern gentlemen. But I’m sorry, I like to wear shorts in the city because it gets hot as hell. And I would also like to add this:
“Jump into a tsunami to save the one you love without thinking twice.”
Stendhal Among the Seducers
great quote: love has become too easy. Or, rather, love has become too difficult, because sex has become too easy.
There are reasons to go to sleep. And there are reasons to wake up. I think that maybe the love of a good woman is a bit of both. She is an aching back and callused hands and the knowledge of hard work done as a body falls into bed. And she is the morning yawn, the kicking off of sheets with a purpose, and the cold wooden floor on half-awake feet. She is the smoothing out of wrinkles on a bed just made.
Photo: The Sartorialist
Essay by Woody AllenThe true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the midtown area in his shorts. What do years matter, particularly if your apartment is rent controlled? The thing to remember is that each time of life has…
Weaned on the work of H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw and their loathing for conventional mores, Lewis and his confreres became the dominant force in American letters, and their views went largely unchallenged in the literary world. It was left to a critic named Bernard DeVoto to issue the first serious and meaningful challenge to their worldview
fascinating article.
better.
Cash.
Garfield minus Garfield the book.
REQUIRED VIEWING: High Society (Dir. Charles Waters)
i might do this one day if i ever find myself alone at the bar at a high class party.
he was…
