life:

Over the years, LIFE’s legendary photographers enjoyed unprecedented access to the private lives of the biggest stars in the world, watching them as they ate their meals, played with their children, read their books — and even tucked themselves into bed.

Here, some of the most memorable photographs that resulted from those intimate moments.

Pictured: Her sex-symbol image aside, Monroe was an avid reader of 20th-century literature and was often photographed curling up with a book, as in this shot taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at her Hollywood home in 1953.

jennarationx:

My pedicure! Love the color! It’s called Endless Nights… Not quite black..

life:

No matter how you spell it, Scrabble is one of the world’s most popular boardgames. Say hello to Alfred Butts, (pictured above) the man who started it all.

In the 1930s, Queens, N.Y., architect Alfred Butts set about making a new boardgame after concluding that the most popular were numbers or dice games, chess-and-checkers-type games, and anagrams. He made a game that combined all three genres when he came out with what he called Lexiko, and then Criss-Cross Words.

see more — LIFE Plays Scrabble

wearethe99percent:

And I’m PISSED.

life:

BREAKING: Apple reports Steve Jobs has passed away.

see more — Steve Jobs: Life & Times

I read about Mr. Jobs’ passing on my iPad, with the Drudge Report story linked to the Apple website story. It was weird.

life:

It’s no secret that Andy Rooney — who will make his last regular appearance on 60 Minutes on Oct. 2, 2011, after more than three decades on the hit CBS show — is a legendary complainer. Virtually no group, product, or holiday has escaped his often irascible commentary, and here are some of his most memorable targets.

For instance, Rooney on Kurt Cobain: Rooney scolded viewers for mourning the 1994 suicide of the Nirvana frontman. Why? Because he said he had never heard of him.

see more — Andy Rooney: Champion Complainer

executivecontour:

Devil Chef is an old comic. 

notlikethecheese:

braiker:

WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND DECENT IS THIS FROM???! Someone please get to the, um, bottom of this for me.

PS: ”Ribbed for Xtra Pleasure!”

Good morning!

jennarationx:

Paint it black!!!

soupsoup:

courtenaybird:

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San Francisco is REALLY nerdy.

Welcome to Mars.