June 2009
1 post
So, you're in love with one of your friends, but... →
plaidscarves:
meepmeepmeep
April 2009
6 posts
gnomechomsky:
Run Run Run - The Velvet...
“I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never...”
– Frank O’Hara, from Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) (via rach)
Bizarre drugs
missworld:
hardcoresuperstar:
chillifrog:
Seeking the ultimate high, people have ingested all kinds of bizarre chemicals and plants through history. Fortunately they have related (those who lived anyway) their experiences so we can now recount them to you. Prepare to be shocked by some of the contents on this list - you will almost certainly not know the drugging abilities of the majority of...
March 2009
3 posts
wanted:
clip-on fake fur or lamb’s wool collars, because at times you really want to have that little extra oomf to your shirts.
Public Health Response to a Rabid Kitten—Four... →
Come here, throw pillow.
Come here, tawny flame wobbling
on the side of the road.
February 2009
8 posts
Who is the morning? →
Allegory is nice.
gifparty:
Oh, Molly Lambert I salute you.
A Walk on the Wild Side (the Novel) →
The novel from which Lou’s song was roughly based.
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
On the hedgehog's dilemma →
Freud — “I am going to America to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.”
January 2009
23 posts
Gnarls Barkley on The Violent Femmes' cover of... →
“I might compare it to a calm pond. I caught my reflection in it. And I seemed to be momentarily at peace. This track sounds entirely different in the rain, and supports some intriguing lilypads.”
I love you even more, Gnarls.
this may
be a stupid question but why don’t they have coffee bags that you can steep in hot water like tea bags. and for that matter, why don’t they have tea grounds? these questions were borne out of desire.
Unusual (and fun!) date ideas.
hollyso:
neitherfreer:
1. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence
2. Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books
3. Have her dress up as a ghost and you dress uup us Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever anyone sees you two, pretend...
Published →
I was published in this tiny literary journal for some poems. What what.
The Undressing Day, by Ada Limón →
I dreamed the tangled crush of magic peels in the wax leaves made a spell of bones and everything bloomed big and better than before, and beyond the barbed wire, beyond this fence of angry fists there’s a breathing, there’s a breathing underwater. Love the body bending, the useless hair, the when of the skin, the when of the wrist, the witching, the now, the now, the insist.
The recontextualization of comic strips →
I thought I had posted this, but I guess not. Interesting and funny.
Observations on laryngitis
People are initially sympathetic but seem to become creeped out thereafter, either by the dry-throated squawking or the fervent hand gestures. I do sound something like a japanese horror-monster, that I perhaps crawled out of the sink or was shaken loose from an icy prison, due to a nuclear testing mishap.
But it offers a chance to work on my physical comedy. Working in the silent movie days...
I have...
laryngitis. I imagine people looking at me and thinking, “there is a normal boy.” But no, in fact, there is a non-deaf mute.
I should probably be doing the ‘Garp’ thing with a little mead notebook, but I haven’t so far. I wish that my sign language were better.
5 year olds attempt to elope in Africa →
(via lolofoshosho)
“What struck us was that the little ones were completely on their own and that they had lots of swimming gear with them.”
Top notch police work there, cap.
As promised: Never play with fire.
From the Annals of Facebook
Do you realize that if an actual hedgehog is running down a slope and it executes its ‘turn-into-ball’ technique while moving, IT WILL ROLL DOWN LIKE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!!!
One thousand times yes. →
I knew that wasn’t the end, of instant-print photography. Hurray!
Reminder to self:
I have to read Watership Down, Indian Summer, and both watch and read The Outsiders. ASAP.
Stranger Danger: Educational music for...
Curb your Enthusiasm
Realization: ‘haha’ doesn’t mean dick when typed out online. There is no way that they actually laughed. If you get ‘hahahha’ or multiple ‘lols, they probably actually laughed.
One ha is practically an insult. One ha is them scoffing at you.
Ancillary point: Even in person, people laughing doesn’t mean much. Pay attention, you laugh at...
December 2008
23 posts
Positive Reinforcement Bot
The best feeling in chatting online is when you say something and the other person is all like ‘lol’ or ‘hahahaha’ or one of those laughing things. So with that in consideration, I propose:
The positive reinforcement bot, which will pummel you with these phrases, reinforcing your self-esteem.
Although maybe this would be very, very bad for people. Maybe it would...
http://www.jpgmag.com/ →
http://alanvalek.com/blog/ →
http://spurious.typepad.com/ →
http://inkhornterm.blogspot.com/2008/08/6-easy-piec... →
Beautiful piece on school for the blind in Texas. →
“I kinda try to imagine what seeing is, but I don’t know.”
Is it possible
… that I’m the only person who’s ever done an impersonation of Daniel Plainview doing Kelis’ Milkshake song? There isn’t one on youtube. I made the connection today, pulling out of McDonalds. Initially hilarious, but exactly what you would expect. And really hard on the vocal cords.
Elephant Six Bootlegs →
Also see: the Elephant 6 concert recording on NPR’s All Things Considered podcast.
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New art project - The hidden messages word search
Context - Preferably it would be distributed as what would appear to be an ordinary word search; perhaps snuck into a stack of ‘tidbits’ free newspapers, convincingly disguised. The actual crossword questions would be innocuous, but the first several answers would be hidden in the top ten or so rows - preventing the player from scanning the lines below. When the words progressively...