By Gretchen Alice Lover of pop culture in all its various incarnations. Located in Austin, TX. I will frequently brag about this. Age? Nunya business. Unless it is, in fact, your business, in which case the answer would be 24. Find me on twitter or on my blog. Ask away.Tumblr (3.0; @gretchenalice)http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4yy0lC1Fl1qzotkxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24235795368http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24235795368Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:38:44 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ynyiohNa1qzotkxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Oh, hey there, pay phone. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24221771616http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24221771616Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:01:29 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4huevJ1hr1qz7tm6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.somethingchanged.com.au/post/23626689755/maira-kalman-via-austin-kleon" target="_blank">somethingchanged</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Maira Kalman via <a href="http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/" target="_blank">Austin Kleon</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24206103556http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24206103556Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:44:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xqubraqH1qa55hyo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xqubraqH1qa55hyo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://quotemeboy.tumblr.com/post/24203569928/want" target="_blank">quotemeboy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>want</p> </blockquote> <p>YES.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24203755745http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24203755745Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:54:08 -0500<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OpH7V6kMlpk?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>My dear friend, B, is sick, so she’s giving me her ticket to <em>Les Mis</em> tonight. I feel terrible for her,  but I am SO SUPER EXCITED that I get to see it again. It was five years ago (minus one day) when I saw it for the first time.  </p> <p>Fun fact: We were having a <em>Les Mis</em> sing-along on the way back from Houston and I may have referred to this song as “my jam.” </p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24203005139http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24203005139Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:37:48 -0500Les MisAustinLes MiserablesEponineOn My Own“Justin Bieber Suffers Concussion After Walking Into Glass Wall”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/justin-bieber-suffers-concussion-after-walking-into-glass-wall-2012315" target="_blank">Justin Bieber Suffers Concussion After Walking Into Glass Wall - UsMagazine.com</a></p> <p>HEADLINE OF THE DAY.</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hystericalparoxysm.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">hystericalparoxysm</a>)</p></em>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24196027271http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24196027271Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:52:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2s9i1LxmF1qhsuv2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>According to tumblr, this is the 10,000th thing I’ve “liked.” I think this goes to show that A) I have spent way too much time here over the past four years and B) I really like you guys. An awful lot.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24155438090http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24155438090Thu, 31 May 2012 17:52:02 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wfr1H8fg1qg30tjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://austinstatesman.tumblr.com/post/24138108756/creatures-in-cedar-park-have-some-thinking" target="_blank">austinstatesman</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/williamson/entries/2012/05/31/creatures_in_cedar_park_have_s.html" target="_blank">Creatures in Cedar Park have some thinking chupacabra</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p>“I don’t know what it is,” said Rick Cumptson, who has seen the animals in a field outside of his store, Bunk Beds Etc. “I’d never even heard of chupacabra until about two weeks ago. I started looking, trying to figure out what the hell these were.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Photo note: This is not an image of the alleged creature seen by residents of Cedar Park, but it was in the results when we searched ‘chupacabra’ in our photo archive.</p> <p><em>Photo: Courtesy of Robert Floyd</em></p> </blockquote> <p>I want, nay, need this to be true.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24139336808http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24139336808Thu, 31 May 2012 13:34:37 -0500chupacabraweirdaustintexas<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4vg0dtNAS1qzbzg5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ballroompink.tumblr.com/post/24114592365/who-is-amy-poehler" target="_blank">ballroompink</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Who is Amy Poehler?</p> </blockquote>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24129269081http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24129269081Thu, 31 May 2012 09:32:24 -0500JeopardyAmy Poehlerawesomeness<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4vdcoMoJ81qzotkxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My Jonah Club. #nom (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24111988485http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24111988485Wed, 30 May 2012 23:19:35 -0500nom<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48rc6oZCq1qfbum9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://darkheartedrose.tumblr.com/post/24097649120/chesttoupee-can-we-just-take-a-minute-to" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">darkheartedrose</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://chesttoupee.tumblr.com/post/23315159400/can-we-just-take-a-minute-to-appreciate-danny-pudi" target="_blank">chesttoupee</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Can we just take a minute to appreciate Danny Pudi holding Mjolnir? </p> </blockquote> <p>-flail-</p></blockquote> <p>Appreciated.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24109306881http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24109306881Wed, 30 May 2012 22:29:24 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4um0eePvc1qzbcoyo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thefount.tumblr.com/post/24072955845/no-i-dont-know-whats-going-on-here-either-but" target="_blank">thefount</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>No, I don’t know what’s going on here either, but it amuses me.</p> </blockquote> <p>“I don’t have ‘friends,’ John.”</p> <p>“But…but..friendship is magic, Sherlock! Don’t you know that?”</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24073057338http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24073057338Wed, 30 May 2012 13:31:11 -0500SherlockMy Little Pony<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m308x2A8qh1ql9hcpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://quotemeboy.tumblr.com/post/24069638456/are-we-not-men" target="_blank">quotemeboy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Are we not men?</p> </blockquote> <p>Didja see that ludicrous display last night?</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24069692856http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24069692856Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:27 -0500BluffballThe IT Crowd<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4udwcHjmm1qfgtfho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://elizs.tumblr.com/post/24065897829/elcomfortador-who-would-have-thought-that-this" target="_blank">elizs</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://elcomfortador.tumblr.com/post/24065361670/who-would-have-thought-that-this-summers-biggest" target="_blank">elcomfortador</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Who would have thought that this summer’s biggest movie star <a href="http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2012/05/summers-breakout-star-archery.html" target="_blank">would be freaking archery</a>?</p> </blockquote> <p>I know gretchenalice is totally into this.</p> </blockquote> <p>Totally.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24066195216http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24066195216Wed, 30 May 2012 10:55:51 -0500archeryfilmsummer 2012themesgretchenalicethe year of the bow<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ubaanS1X1qz7drjo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://amandadobbins.com/post/24063431903/via" target="_blank">akdobbins</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/BAFeldman" target="_blank">via</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>Do you hear the people sing? Also, do you see the adorable French children running right towards you?</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24064011324http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24064011324Wed, 30 May 2012 09:55:12 -0500Les Mis<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4tfsbno9q1qzotkxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I already have a drink. Do you think he’d buy me mozzarella sticks instead?” #lizlemon (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24042682642http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24042682642Tue, 29 May 2012 22:16:59 -0500lizlemon<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2jp20XBaY1qfwk1to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24013904004http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24013904004Tue, 29 May 2012 15:28:51 -0500Star WarsYoda<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4smdzvzLq1r8bc3no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/post/24002195800/good-omens-by-neil-gaiman-and-terry-pratchett" target="_blank">unypl</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>“Good Omens,” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett </strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060853972/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=undnewyorpubl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060853972" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read Good Omens</a></p> <p><a href="http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/post/20362549492/good-omens-the-nice-and-accurate-prophecies-of" target="_blank">See another Reading-Rider with </a><em><a href="http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/post/20362549492/good-omens-the-nice-and-accurate-prophecies-of" target="_blank">Good Omens</a></em></p> </blockquote> <p>Portrait-wise, this is one of my favorite UNYPL posts so far.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24002821557http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24002821557Tue, 29 May 2012 11:57:20 -0500booksnycsubwaystreet photographyGaiman NeilPratchett Terryreadingxs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4skefheRB1qa2n8so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://girldetective.me/post/24000297149" target="_blank">girl-detective</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Top 3 reasons why this is the best billboard you have ever seen in your entire life:</p> <ol><li>SUCCESS</li> <li>Their phone number is the same digit repeated 7 times.</li> <li>Man on the right=<em>PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER WITH AN EYE PATCH</em></li> </ol></blockquote>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24000444763http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/24000444763Tue, 29 May 2012 11:02:11 -0500st. louisbillboardpersonal injury lawyerbrown and browneye patchSUCCESS<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sj726Dpy1qzotkxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I love finding other people’s shopping lists. It provides such a weirdly intimate look into their lives.</p>http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/23999292531http://gretchenalice.tumblr.com/post/23999292531Tue, 29 May 2012 10:33:00 -0500