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from the spam
If you ask anyone who has experienced the hullabaloos of packing and moving, they would surely say that it is indeed a nerve wracking experience.
from the comments
I found a rat skeleton when I was going through my dad’s stuff after he died in 2001, Sheila. His office (Dad’s — well, the rat’s too, I guess) was a barely converted garage, which we cleaned out in July, in Florida; I could hear my skin crisping each time I went from the garage to the dumpster in the driveway. I would’ve just chucked bales of crap, but on the first pile I tackled, I found his 1958 love letters to my mom underneath some blueprints from the 1970s. The whole scene was 1% disgusting, 97% paper trash, and 2% sentimental value.
Sleeping soldiers
In 2008, photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington lived with an American platoon in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, one of the nation’s most dangerous outposts. Since then, he’s released a series of photographs called Sleeping Soldiers, an experimental audiovisual project of the same name, and a full-length documentary produced with author Sebastian Jung called Restrepo, which won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Restrepo is slated for a summer 2010 theatrical release.
(via Foam Magazine)
third
Today our Macbook had its hard drive replaced for the second time in the 2 years we’ve owned it. That’s 3 hard drives in 2 years. Yet I don’t expect to be complaining about the quality of Apple products.
from the spam
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“Our Younger Noise” by Letting up Despite Great Faults
Headphones.
I mean I guess if I don’t know things are here it won’t matter if they’re lost
The wedding car?
Two who looked to be the bride and groom were inside the Upper Barrakka Gardens with a photographer and a string of maids (or matrons?) of honour. This car was parked outside.
Are the bars of the gates emblematic?
Move out! Move on!
From Move Out Move On, LLC (offices: Neutron Road, Dallas, Texas) to Vera Ryan Estate c/o Sheila Ryan:
It has come to my attention through the probate records that you are the administrator for the estate of Vera Ryan. Please accept my condolences for the loss of a loved one. I hope this letter has not come too soon after their passing as no offense is intended.
As an estate administrator, you can readily see the value of turning a non-liquid asset such as a house into cash.
If the house is full of articles that you would rather not deal with, we can usually handle disposing of them at no additional charge.
11:43am
I stepped off the bus taking me downtown to walk up Van Ness to the car rental agency. About halfway up the block I grabbed the elastic on my wrist and tied my hair back. A few steps later I turned into an alley and walked to the curb between two parked cars. My fourth attempt at breakfast this morning shot right out of me, then I turned back on Van Ness and a homeless man asked for change.
Ella’s Pink Lady
16-year-old Jessica Watson completed her solo sailing trip around the world.
“She said she’d sail around the world and she has,” a tearful Julie Watson said as she watched her grinning daughter cruise past the finish line from a nearby boat. “She’s home.”
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Here we have “post-feminist” femininity without a complex, uniting the features of mother, prim teacher (glasses, hair in a bun), public person, and, implicitly, sex object, proudly displaying the “first dude” as a phallic toy.
Sting, Debbie Harry, Elton John, Lady Gaga, Shirley Bassey, and Bruce Springsteen sing Don’t Stop Believing
At the very least, you’ll have to check out Gaga’s shoes.
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If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.
the internet makes me happy
Overall, the study found that access to the Internet leads people to feel better about their lives. “Put simply, people with IT access are more satisfied with life even when taking account of income,” said Michael Willmott, the social scientist who authored the study, at a press conference. “Our analysis suggests that IT has an enabling and empowering role in people’s lives, by increasing their sense of freedom and control, which has a positive impact on well-being or happiness.”
Duh.
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Loyalty is something that hurts you at times because you can’t get youth back.
Ill-Gotten Gain
Yesterday I found a bracelet in the gutter on Doty Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
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No one knows who created it. No one yet fully understands how it works. No one knows how to stop it or kill it. And no one even knows for sure why it exists.
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Denver Gore.
Update: Weston Kenny.
My new t-shirt
No one’s trying to take your fucking gun.
from the comments
Oh, I got your voicemail. I’m going to that estate sale tomorrow to buy all the birdcages. That guy was creepy and old; I can’t wait to rehome some of his creepy, old possessions. Speaking of Toby, that guy used to have a bunch of “No Dogs Allowed” signs in his yard, and I remember us letting Toby shit in his yard every time we took him for a walk.
I feel like there’s something behind me
Dog on a wall
When I first saw this lovely today, he was walking around on the roof of a gas station. I tried to get a good picture, but couldn’t. Then when we came around the corner (this was in Rabat), he was walking along this wall, at least 6 feet high, I’d guess, running perpendicular to the station.
from the comments of an article about finding Caravaggio’s possible remains
Interesting stuff to read but after 400 years…..so what?
