Have Some Soup.

(Source: drunkonstevphen, via nprfreshair)

An adorable Avengers-themed Maurice Sendak tribute

(Source: thatbloodytiman)

nprfreshair:

Audio is now up for our show-long Maurice Sendak tribute. I cried. You might want to have tissues handy.

I’ve been waiting to listen to this all day and I finally got through it. This is how I imagine it played out during broadcast:

Minute 1: Terry reads from an obituary and 5% of the listening audience starts crying.
Minute 28: Maurice’s last interview begins. 25% of the audience is now crying.
Minute 38: Maurice starts crying about the fragility of life and like  60% of the audience loses it.
Minute 41: So many emotions. We must be at 75%.
Minute 43: The “I cry a lot because I miss people…” quote happens and we hit 90%
Minute 45: You thought you were going to last?! BAM. Oh my god oh my god every single person with radio access is crying right now we’re going to drown.
End: “Live your life, live your life, life your life…” everyone cries forever.

So that’s pretty much the plan. But it’s amazing and you should listen.

nprfreshair:

hwentworth:

Internet’s over, people.  Maurice Sendak just won.

Maurice Sendak, 2011

It took me a while to figure out why everyone was posting Maurice Sendak quotes today and now that I know, how am I supposed to deal with this quote?

(Source: NPR, via pantsqueen)

washingtonpoststyle:

Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.

This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)

I thought it was hyperbole until I watched it. (It isn’t hyperbole- watch it.)