Brad Barrish

Cancer is perhaps the iconic disease of our time. Everyone knows and loves—or has known and loved—someone stricken. It gets people of every age: people who have done bad things to their bodies and people who have not. It can kill quickly, slowly, or not at all. Because it takes so many forms, it’s something that everyone can relate to but that no one completely understands. And thus it’s particularly easy to exploit and to wrap in mythology. If you’ve created a character, you can give him cancer and then declare that almost anything else happened next. There are real stories about young boys dying, college-age women dying, and adults surviving to bicycle competitively again. The reality of all these other tales is what makes these three hoaxes so pernicious: they all cheapen something profound. And they all make me very angry.
“Livestrong, For Real” by Nicholas Thompson on The New Yorker’s News Desk (via nprfreshair)

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Cassidy Jay Barrish. Born on 01/16/13 at 5:05am PST. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 13 oz. and is 21.25" long. Mom and daughter are both healthy and mom is recovering well. (at Saint John’s Health Center)

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theminorthread:

Nylon decided to do a post on my today her eis a rare picture of the elusive torso WITH a head.  soak it in…

nylonguysmagazine:

MINOR THREAD

In July of 2010 Isac Walter decided that he would embark on a journey. This venture was one that set forth with the idea that Walter would wear a different T-shirt every single day for as long as he could. About 99 percent of these shirts are vintage tour T tees. He decided to chronicle the project, which you can follow on his website Minor Thread. It’s been 553 days!

photo: Emily Shur

King shirt.