The Byrds
Just one more reason why we love the Byrds. Dig McGuinn’s ‘granny’ glasses. I had a pair (with blue lenses) in 7th grade–i.e. before Sheila knew me.
Do you have
any ‘memories’ which you know from external objective data to be false or inaccurate?
Joe Tex
When I was 10 or 11, I was absurdly fond (well, actually it wasn’t absurd at all) of Joe Tex’s “Hold On To What You’ve Got” (aka “Hold What You’ve Got”), the ‘sense’ of which I couldn’t really have understood at all. Here he is on Shindig (he starts just after 3 minutes into this 9 minute segment). If you want to see Tex in an entirely different mode and mood, try this.
bingo!
We’re also working hard to transform the PC and Microsoft buying experience at retail by improving the articulation and demonstration of the Microsoft innovation and value proposition so that it’s clear, simple and straightforward for consumers everywhere.
happy vd
I ♥ clusterflock.
wow
At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She was a stellar student who had never been in trouble, and the page stated clearly at the bottom that it was just a joke.
Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment.
She was handcuffed and taken away as her stunned parents stood by.
“I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare,” said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. “All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing.”
The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care.
the world’s shortest man
The new elimae
is now posted.
“the best curse-filled film gobbets on the web”?
Phil Hoad has assembled a nice collection of film clips over at the Guardian. All of it is deliciously unsafe for work, unless you work from home or share your office with a fellow Clusterflocker.
Do you agree that these are the best, or did he leave something wonderful out? Links or it didn’t happen.
(Note: Lots more candidates in the comments over there.)
Mr George,
a former sailor and secondary character in Bleak House, ponders his life after visiting with the family of his old compadre Bagnet.
“A family home,” he ruminates, as he marches along, “however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely. But it’s well I never made that evolution of matrimony. I shouldn’t have been fit for it. I am such a vagabond still, even at my present time of life, that I couldn’t hold to the gallery a month together, if it was a regular pursuit, or if I didn’t camp there, gipsy fashion. Come! I disgrace nobody and cumber nobody; that’s something. I have not done that for many a long year!”
Sheesh, I think he’s describing me.
Designing Minds: Julia Rothman
I love Julia Rothman’s surface designs, and until I saw her interview from the designing minds site, (via Design Sponge) I didn’t know she did such wonderful web designs too.
queue
It bugs me I’m not always good about which line to stand in.
pins and needles
So, a week ago Thursday, I went to get the pin removed from my ring finger. When I asked the doctor earlier, he said the pain of removing it would be less than getting a shot to numb the finger. No worries. He took a look at the X-rays, said he liked the way the bone was healing, and wanted to wait three more weeks.
No problem.
When I went to front the desk to check out, I told the receptionist he wanted to see me in three weeks. She took a look at the folder, looked over at the other woman working there, and looked back at me.
I could tell she wanted to say something.
“Um, Steve [the doctor's assistant] is going to be out of the office that week. You might want to reschedule for when he’s here.”
They look at each other again.
She looks back at me.
“If you wait to do it when only the doctor is here, I’ll be crying along with you.”
She closes the folder.
Gulp.
Zoo
We finally watched Zoo last night, a documentary about human / horse bestiality, and the source of the donkey meme at clusterflock.
For at least the first third, I thought it had the makings of a great movie, something people would watch both for an appreciation of how it handled the subject matter and out of admiration for the construction of the film itself. The movie, however, to my estimation, took a couple of impacting, if relatively minor, missteps that resulted in — again, to my sensibilities — a slight draining of the energy at the end of the film.
Which isn’t to say it isn’t a good movie. It is. However, it seemed to me, it had the potential to be a great movie, something on the level of Errol Morris at his best or a film like Grey Gardens or Brother’s Keeper. The potential, I thought initially, even to surpass them.
cow water
India’s Hindu nationalist movement is promoting a soft drink made from cow urine.
“Don’t worry, it won’t smell like urine and will be tasty too,” he told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy cities on the River Ganges. “Its USP will be that it’s going to be very healthy. It won’t be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins.”
(via marginal revolution)
The time gap
between me as a high school sophomore and Gone with the Wind is about the same as the gap between a current high school sophomore and Never Mind the Bollocks.
Don’t tell Cindy
Review of The Levitationist
A nice review of The Levitationist was posted over at HTML Giant: “How the Divine Manifests: a Discussion of The Levitationist by Brandon Hobson and the music of A.A. Bondy”
Read it here.
Something fell out of the sky and landed in Texas
And they all stood around in fear and awe. There’s a LOT of garbage in space, folks. And sometimes it falls down.
United States of Tara
Just saw the first episode. Didn’t find anything in the archives here, anyone else privy? Have to say, after number 1, we have to see number 2 right now. I’m feeling all warmfuzzy ’bout it in a Pulp-Fictiony kinda way. (We have 5 ‘sodes in the queue.)
Jen Stark’s Paper Sculptures
(via The Puget News)
This Is Not the Way We Came In
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Thomas Bradly hand made the poster by “cutting, stacking, and kerning thousands of paper letters.” (via)
Cock-a-day
Cam~phone snap of two doodles.
Mary Jeys is doing a thing-a-day, and the thing she is doing is doodling.
I’m doing my own thing, and that’s doodling a cock a day.
I’ll keep on doodling cocks till I’m bored with cocks.
the highest form of intelligence
“You all right, buddy?” Tree asks in a video of the encounter as he approaches the koala. Later, as Sam gulps from the bottle, he quips: “How much can a koala bear?”
