Video 29 Jan 20 notes

Bath day for Flagg: Before, Immediately After, and Fluffed

Photo 27 Jan 404 notes New York Light

New York Light

Video 26 Jan 200 notes

smallislandinthesun:

mattybing1025:

Happy Birthday Paul Newman!!! | January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008

will always reblog….*sigh*

James - should we try our hand at Paul Newman?

Photo 26 Jan 122 notes tallgirltales:

Arizona Muse backstage at Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring 2012
[via labellefabuleuse:musingsinfemininity:marshamcgowan]

Perfection head to toe.

tallgirltales:

Arizona Muse backstage at Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring 2012

[via labellefabuleuse:musingsinfemininity:marshamcgowan]

Perfection head to toe.

Text 19 Jan 9 notes

Anonymous asked: your sons are such yuppies!

-noun (often cap.)

a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.

huh - you think?

Photo 19 Jan 12 notes hmmm…..Some days your focus is just off

hmmm…..Some days your focus is just off

Photo 18 Jan 8,447 notes superamit:

Many of you have asked, so here’s what’s going on with me.
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
8/1979: Born. Grew up in CT, built a killer eraser collection, fell in love with computers.
Left college to start a company. Fell hard. Fled to India for 3 months.
Started 2nd company. Learned to be an adult. Fell in love with NYC.
Moved to SF, discovered burritos & some of my fave people on Earth.
9/2011: Got diagnosed with Leukemia!
Cried. Went through 3 cycles of chemo. Hurt. Thought hard about what I want out of life. Grew up a second time.
TODAY
… After over 100 drives organized by friends, family, and strangers, celebrity call-outs, a bazillion reblogs (7000+!), tweets, and Facebook posts, press, fundraising and international drives organized by tireless friends, and a couple painful false starts, I’ve got a 10/10 matched donor!
You all literally helped save my life. (And the lives of many others.)
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Tomorrow, I’ll be admitted to Dana Farber in Boston for 4-5 weeks.
First I’ll get a second Hickman line to allow direct access to my heart (for meds and for nutrients if I’m not able to eat). Over the next week, the docs blast my body with a stiff chemo cocktail to try and eradicate all traces of cancer cells. In the process, the immune system I was born with, and my body’s ability to make blood, are destroyed.
Next Friday, I get my donor’s stem cells by IV. I start on immunosuppressants to prevent my body from rejecting them (I’ll be on them for 12-18 months). For these weeks I’ve no immune system, so I’m severely vulnerable to viruses and bacteria. My hospital room and hallway become my world.
Meanwhile, the stem cells make their way to my bone marrow and, with some luck, start producing platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. At this point, my blood type changes to the blood type of my donor. And my blood will now have my donor’s DNA, not my own.
This is science fiction stuff. I can hardly believe it’s even possible, and there’s lots of chances for things to go wrong. It’s frightening.
AFTER THE TRANSPLANT
Recovery to a new state of “normal” takes about a year, but there’s a few storm clouds hovering:
My immune system is new, like a baby’s. I’m prone to getting sick.
Just as with any organ transplant, there’s a chance of rejection. Except in this case, it’s my blood that’s the foreign body, and it touches every organ. They call it graft-vs-host-disease and it can cause health issues and organ complications for the rest of my life.
Successful transplant or not, Leukemia can relapse. Stubborn mofo.
Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five. My odds are a little better since I’m young.
THE GREAT NEWS
I’ve got a long road ahead. But I’ve got a donor & amazing family & friends. A few months ago I didn’t have many options. Today I have a plan.
I am alive. I start tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Thank you.

Congratulations praying and rejoicing

superamit:

Many of you have asked, so here’s what’s going on with me.

WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE

  • 8/1979: Born. Grew up in CT, built a killer eraser collection, fell in love with computers.
  • Left college to start a company. Fell hard. Fled to India for 3 months.
  • Started 2nd company. Learned to be an adult. Fell in love with NYC.
  • Moved to SF, discovered burritos & some of my fave people on Earth.
  • 9/2011: Got diagnosed with Leukemia!
  • Cried. Went through 3 cycles of chemo. Hurt. Thought hard about what I want out of life. Grew up a second time.

TODAY

… After over 100 drives organized by friends, family, and strangers, celebrity call-outs, a bazillion reblogs (7000+!), tweets, and Facebook posts, press, fundraising and international drives organized by tireless friends, and a couple painful false starts, I’ve got a 10/10 matched donor!

You all literally helped save my life. (And the lives of many others.)

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Tomorrow, I’ll be admitted to Dana Farber in Boston for 4-5 weeks.

First I’ll get a second Hickman line to allow direct access to my heart (for meds and for nutrients if I’m not able to eat). Over the next week, the docs blast my body with a stiff chemo cocktail to try and eradicate all traces of cancer cells. In the process, the immune system I was born with, and my body’s ability to make blood, are destroyed.

Next Friday, I get my donor’s stem cells by IV. I start on immunosuppressants to prevent my body from rejecting them (I’ll be on them for 12-18 months). For these weeks I’ve no immune system, so I’m severely vulnerable to viruses and bacteria. My hospital room and hallway become my world.

Meanwhile, the stem cells make their way to my bone marrow and, with some luck, start producing platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. At this point, my blood type changes to the blood type of my donor. And my blood will now have my donor’s DNA, not my own.

This is science fiction stuff. I can hardly believe it’s even possible, and there’s lots of chances for things to go wrong. It’s frightening.

AFTER THE TRANSPLANT

Recovery to a new state of “normal” takes about a year, but there’s a few storm clouds hovering:

  • My immune system is new, like a baby’s. I’m prone to getting sick.
  • Just as with any organ transplant, there’s a chance of rejection. Except in this case, it’s my blood that’s the foreign body, and it touches every organ. They call it graft-vs-host-disease and it can cause health issues and organ complications for the rest of my life.
  • Successful transplant or not, Leukemia can relapse. Stubborn mofo.

Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five. My odds are a little better since I’m young.

THE GREAT NEWS

I’ve got a long road ahead. But I’ve got a donor & amazing family & friends. A few months ago I didn’t have many options. Today I have a plan.

I am alive. I start tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Thank you.

Congratulations praying and rejoicing

Text 18 Jan 245 notes Channeling Dean

jamesnord:

I don’t think it’s any secret that I am not good looking enough to pull of the James Dean look effectively (really who is?) but my Mom and I worked on a little shoot using brooding young star as inspiration during a unseasonably warm afternoon in January. 

Quote 17 Jan 17 notes
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— 

Anon

Don’t give up

Photo 13 Jan 457 notes jamesnord:

A sailboat is a cacophony of sounds: the crack of the boom, the roar of sails straining to become taught, the buzz and rumble of the hydraulic daggerboards moving with the boat’s rhythm and sailors yelling in code that somehow reminds me of the language of short order cooks. But if you find the right spot at the right time and close your eyes all you hear is the roar of waves and the stiff breeze flicking saltwater on your face. {view large please}

James, you should be very proud of the work you are doing for Puma, I know I am.

jamesnord:

A sailboat is a cacophony of sounds: the crack of the boom, the roar of sails straining to become taught, the buzz and rumble of the hydraulic daggerboards moving with the boat’s rhythm and sailors yelling in code that somehow reminds me of the language of short order cooks. But if you find the right spot at the right time and close your eyes all you hear is the roar of waves and the stiff breeze flicking saltwater on your face. {view large please}

James, you should be very proud of the work you are doing for Puma, I know I am.


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