I’ve become one of those annoying people who posts pictures of his food on the internets. But seriously. Look at this pizza. Just look at it.

putthison:

Another wonderfully put-together hot weather look, this time from Andrew in Atlanta.  The palette here is very simple - khaki and blue.  Looks like a linen jacket (and a lovely one at that).  I think the cool tones in the upper half of the body are a nice, calming summer look.  They also calm down the bow tie, which is nice.

This is exactly what I want to wear when I’m on vacation in South Carolina in August.

fakefortwayne:

The Great Lincoln Tower

A story of intrigue, obsession, and the remains of the nation’s 16th president

Built in 1918 and, at the time, the tallest building in the western hemisphere, the Lincoln Tower’s construction was commissioned by Robert Lincoln, the oldest son of Abraham, the 16th president of the United States. He built it as a memorial of his father, and like the pyramids of ancient Egypt, as a tomb.

Legend has it that there are miles of catacombs that extend hundreds of feet beneath and several city blocks out from the Great Lincoln Tower, and it is adorned with Masonry symbols put there by the stonemasons who built it. Not much is known about the full extent of the tunnels’ reach, and only one map is known to exist, which is in possession of ARCH, a local historical preservation organization that has a secret pact never to reveal it to the public. Rumors have it that the tunnels have many access points throughout downtown Fort Wayne and surrounding buildings. The stonemasons who built the Tower were responsible for 95% of the construction of other downtown buildings as well, and may have connected the tunnels to as many as 35 other businesses.

Whether or not Abraham Lincoln is actually buried at the Great Lincoln Tower cannot be confirmed, but historians do know that Robert Lincoln’s head was cyrogenically frozen and placed in a capsule at the top of the building. You can see it in this photo, directly underneath the flag.

This photo was taken in 1934 by Virgil B. Esterhaus, a conspiracy theorist and amateur photographer. At that time, the Tower still employed a series of secret police that roamed the tunnels and upheld Mason law, feared even by the Fort Wayne Police Department. Minutes after this photo was taken, Esterhaus claims, black-clad men emerged from behind a tree on East Berry Street, knocked him unconscious, and took his camera. Only through his own paranoia and cunning did he replace the film with a empty roll and stash the old roll in a secret compartment in his artificial leg (which he lost while in the intelligence service during the Great War).

This photo is housed in the collection of Emma Esterhaus, great grand-niece and only surviving kin of Virgil Esterhaus. The Great Lincoln Tower is in no way affiliated with the Lincoln Bank Tower, a building with a similar name and a much more boring history.

To submit your own photo and story to Fake Fort Wayne, visit the Submit page.

fakefortwayne:

Deep beneath terra firma, in the bowels of the Allen County Courthouse, we find the secret to Fort Wayne’s general reluctance to embrace and accept change. The ‘Change Detection and Abolishment Framework’ (CDAF). Designed and built by Hicksville, Ohio Amish visionary Hiram Stoltzfus, the CDF was brought on-line in 1908 with the sole purpose of thwarting any and all attempts at meaningful, progressive change.

Though many doubt it’s efficacy, life-long Fort Wayne residents can attest that it does indeed function as designed. 

But HOW does it work? To quote Allen County Republican Chair Marty Whitebread (whose party is responsible for maintaining and calibrating the CDAF), “We really have no idea how it works. We don’t really think too much about it actually. Like I always say, if it aint broke - don’t go trying to fix it and stuff!” Despite Mr. Whitebread’s reluctance to divulge any clues on CDAF operation, many theories have been postulated throughout the years. Some say it works by introducing some form of change aversion liquid into the city’s water supply at the treatment plan on Spy Run Avenue, others believe it produces low frequency soundwaves projected through thousands of hidden speakers throughout the city, and still others will insist it regulates and injects change aversion gases via the air ducts in Georgetown Mall, government buildings, and Chinese buffet restaurants.

I have seen the machine in action myself as I took this photo, and while I can not unequivocally testify to it’s ability to in fact, prevent change. I can report that it makes extremely cool beeping, whirring, buzzing, and hissing noises.

On the St. Mary, circa 1926. Fort Wayne, Ind.

Cherry blossoms are bursting out all over.

The eye of The Dentist is always watching.

Mother effin’ SPRING TIME!

The Fort Wayne / Allen County Courthouse. Hipstamated.

It’s WTF Wednesday, so you know what that means! Steve Jobs’s head sculpted in cheese, of course!

(Via BoingBoing)