December 2008
37 posts
Playas Circle. “Duffle Bag Boy.”
Attention All Tumblrs
If you will be in NYC this weekend and want to act/goof off in a ridic short film, please get in touch. Details will be divulged to those who apply. (It is not a porno.)
“[…] (he had thrown a stone at the wren, and could not believe it when he...”
– Gaddis, William. The Recognitions. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Merry Christmas Everybody
A Christmas Story
I went on a Christmas mission to the hardware store with my brother this afternoon. It had snowed a great deal in the several days before my arrival in Milwaukee the night before, and the streets were stacked with drifts.
I told my brother the story about how, five years ago walking back from a double date, a girlfriend had poured less than a handful of snow down the back of my shirt.
“Watch...
groupuscule:
art imitating luxemburg:
A major problem with current “political analysis” is that there’s no need to analyze something that’s obvious to everyone. American national politics is a vulgar, transparent, and stupid drama. You can read a few news wires regularly and understand every major politician’s short- and long-term intentions. This is why most of our Wonkette posts are composed...
Dear Sister. →
For a while I couldn’t find this but now I can. So here it is.
A Trio of Video Links
In honor of arts and crafts day.
College Humor’s Minesweeper: The Movie
A live-action recreation of the Goldeneye N64 video game.
This one isn’t funny, but it uses 120 frames per second to shoot skateboarders at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, which is where I skated during my year abroad.
Sis Talk
me: i guess we will hang out soon
allie: you and me?
me: yeah
also
i got a christmas tree today
allie: yea, when are you going to p and b's
[smiley]
and the mint plant?
me: mint plant kicked the bucket
i took too many of its leaves for drinks
the fern is still going strong though
allie: haha
goodgood
me: yeah
i'll let you study
this is a laaazy sunday
allie: haha i WISH IT WAS A LAZY SUNDAY!!!
hey, for my bday i got hemingway's short stories!!!
me: !
i have those too!
i stopped halfway through
too much hemingway makes you grouchy
so be careful
allie: oh geez
i'll be careful
i'm ok taking my time anyhow
me: just like hemingway
he was ok with that
allie: haha
me: well good luck studying
talk soon
allie: bye
“Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without...”
– Charles Ponzi, qtd. in Wikipedia.
Charles Ponzi's autobiography, on Amazon. →
Wikipedia entry on Charles Ponzi, father of the... →
'8 hours of extended footage'
Ben: i texted him back
i had my doubts but she's a keeper
he repsonded
8 hours of extended footage
“I now own pirates 2: scagnettis revenge on blu ray. God i love [my girlfriend].”
– A friend, via text message. For those that don’t know, here’s Pirates 2, explained (to a modest degree) on Wikipedia.
"Gabriel was surprised at her stillness and... →
It should surprise no one that “The Dead” is available online at any time.
It’s pretty sweet how Joyce compresses the song into a relatively small space, waits through the cab ride, and then explodes it in the final pages. By the time the reader reaches Gretta’s explanation, so much has happened that it’s easy to have forgotten the little ditty.
I can’t stop...
MADOFF!
MADOFF MADOFF MADOFF MADOFF! WHOOOOO!
ADMIT DEFEAT / LIVE IN DECLINE!
Could the revamped image of Eminem do something... →
This via the lil bro. He’s starting to flex.
Here is something from Hazel Dickens. (Once again, embed not apparent on the feed. One day you will all have to learn to trust me.)
We Won't Lift a Finger
Yesterday I was very disappointed to find that, as far as I can tell, no one has uploaded “Fire in the Hole,” sung by Hazel Dickens for the motion picture Matewan. But at least I found this eponymous nugget from a little band called Ann Beretta.
(There is a Seeqpod embed that doesn’t appear to show up in the feed. It is on the actual page, however.)
Tammy: hi Mike
how are you doing in this lovely world?
me: not bad
Tammy: (i'm beign totally sarcastic)
Also boss-hogs, I just got rickrolled like fifteen times clicking on assorted YouTube links promising “Chris Cole Ride the Sky Full Part in High Quality” and, weirdly, “ryan sheckler backside flip el toro,” among others.
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Jess: you are gchatting WITH OTHER LADIES?
me: i said it
Jess: oh man.
i am so out of here.
me: jess, no!
this is ridiculous
it's just leon's girlfriend and... one other person
Jess: shocking.
god.
SHOCK SHOCK HORROR HORROR
dude
so today
i saw a runaway police horse on hudson st.
how crazy is that?
there were all these cop cars chasing it
it's riders helmet was still attached to the saddle
me: whoaaaaa
Jess: nelly
me: ding ding ding
(via leoncrawl)
derrinyet:
Techno-psychopathology digest
True:
“There are lots of kids hurting badly online,” she said. “And guess what? They’re hurting badly offline, too. Because it’s more visible online, people are blaming technology rather than trying to solve the underlying problems of the kids that are hurting.”
Less true:
There’s a tendency to look at cases like these and dismissively conclude:...
