the thoughts of Lionel Richie as he sings Hello, by Deven Green
You made me a chia pet, I’d rather have breadsticks.
What’s that thing you’re supposed to say if someone shouldn’t watch something without headphones at work?
(thanks, Aaron)
prairie dog language
Just skip the religious drek and focus on section 2 (via):
Then another amazing language characteristic emerged: the ability to add modifiers to a basic noun category. The prairie dogs have different words for attributes such as color, size, and speed of travel. There were different words for different kinds of dogs, for a man with a yellow coat, and even for a man with a yellow coat with a gun. When the man with the yellow coat and gun came out the next day without the gun, he was still given the same bark from the day before when he had a gun. The memory of the name for one specific person was retained for a period of two months.
The research has shown at least 20 different basic prairie dog words describing predators, with many more variations to account for modifiers, totaling about 100 words. That does not mean their vocabulary is limited to that number of words, but rather it indicates the current state of our knowledge. It takes many experiments to verify each new word. The test environment of predators and the resulting sentry bark responses allow the researchers to actually understand the topic of conversation, a subject not easily controlled in scientific experiments. At this time we have no idea what prairie dogs might talk about over breakfast.
The Lady Gagas
If you watch one Bassoon quartet cover Lady Gaga this year, make it this one.
how to delete your facebook account permanently
I have been thinking about it. (via)
pain and suffering
Slaughterhouse 90210 never fails to disappoint amuse.
Adventureland
I am trying to figure out what demographic this commercial fits and I am coming up blank.
1977 Mercedes-Benz C111-III
from the comments
When I was 15 I dressed my 10 year old sister up as Trent Reznor (in a fishing hat and a hawaiian shirt, because that is what rockstars wear) and made her lipsync to “You are the perfect drug” while I filmed it for part of a variety show I was making. Later for that same show I had her dress up in a leather skirt and pretend to be Alanis Morrissette while she interviewed herself.
reflection
I think I want one of those mirrors that shows the way you actually look instead of, you know, mirrored.
Karen Dalton – Something On Your Mind
Until yesterday I had never heard of Karen Dalton. I know I’m late to the show, but, I’m sure glad I found her. This is my own little tribute to her. From her 1971 album, In My Own Time.
Bob Dylan wrote this in his description of discovering and joining the music scene at Greenwich Village’s Cafe Wha? after arriving in New York City in 1961: “My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed… I sang with her a couple of times.”
Andrew
Did I tell you Elliott Smith went to my high school for a while?
Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s
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“Glenn Beck plays “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” except there’s just one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler.”
from the comments
Dear Redacted,
I hope your exam went well and the young woman whom you are so arduously pursuing under such dubious circumstances was able to give you some sort of notes or cheat sheet. Girls, man, ammaright? Failing final exams can be kind of a bummer to have to explain your way out of, but I get the feeling you could do it.
I paid for my own “liberal arts s— show” almost entirely myself, which I admit gives me some difficulty in relating to your particular problems, but let us address them singularly and then as a whole. I find it helps to break up a problem into small, solvable steps.
The Italdesign-Giugiaro Quaranta Taxi
Hail a taxi in most American cities, and what are you likely to ride in? A Ford Crown Vic, maybe a minivan or an Escape Hybrid. But a few lucky residents of Rome had something decidedly more exotic recently when stoic carrozzeria Italdesign-Giugiaro outfitted its Quaranta concept with a meter, dome light and white paintjob to pull taxi duty around the Italian capital.
Derek, if you see one of these, let me know.
from the spam
I love this post! I too have created my own list.
spam name
Kip Atwood.
Ingenius?
…Or the saddest thing ever?
I have lately been wondering if I could market my services as a friendly emailer. Do people like getting long emails just for them, filled with excitement about their lives? I could do that. I’m a writer, someone could hire me on to write them emails, and I could do a sliding payment scale. Do you want an email every other day? every week? Something in every price range. They don’t even have to email back, but if they did my emails would get better. For a princely sum I would even tap out a letter on a type-writer or scrawl something on parchment paper just for them. Book recommendations, strange conversations I over heard, my thoughts about which variety of loquat is the best, you know, friend stuff.
This is appalling me the more I type, but I’m starting to get worried about my not-having-a-job coming up soon.
Update: In case anyone wishes to contact me privately about this matter: amandamaefilm [at] gmail.com
R.I.P. Callie Angell
Callie Angell died last Wednesday, May 5. She was 62. Ms. Angell worked to help preserve the artistic and physical legacy of Andy Warhol’s films; she was at work on a follow-up to her catalogue raisonné, Andy Warhol Screen Tests, an impressive piece of scholarship and a work of art in its own right.
Her father, the writer and editor Roger Angell, stated that his daughter committed suicide.
Semi-Literate Former Gold Prospector Given Own Cable News Show
(thanks, Aaron)
They’re boatmen
but not vulgar boatmen.
Barnum’s Animal Crackers: Lilly Pulitzer Edition
I bought a box of these. They’re just plain animal crackers inside.
Which of you would’ve been dropouts?
Homeschooling stats are soaring in Texas. State officials suspect schools are misrepresenting their dropout rates by claiming that these kids are getting an education at home:
More than 22,620 Texas secondary students who stopped showing up for class in 2008 were excluded from the state’s dropout statistics because administrators said they were being home-schooled, according to Texas Education Agency figures.
The homeschooling rate has nearly tripled in a decade, including a 24 percent jump in a single year. Read more
Jupiter lost a stripe
“Jupiter with only one belt is almost like seeing Saturn when its rings are edge-on and invisible for a time — it just doesn’t look right,” wrote skywatcher Bob King of Duluth, Minn., in a May 10 entry of his blog “Astro Bob” while discussing Wesleyan’s surprising Jupiter views.
that’s a big fish
The Regalecus glesne, known as the King of Herrings or Giant Oarfish, was found dead in the small fishing village of Bovallstrand on Sweden’s west coast, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the Norwegian border.
“Down at the water, there was something big floating. At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic. But then we saw an eye. I went down to check and saw that it was this extremely strange fish,” Kurt Ove Eriksson, the passer-by who found the specimen, told daily Svenska Dagbladet.
The rarely seen regalecus, the world’s longest bony fish, can reach up to 12 meters.
“The last time we saw a King of Herrings in Sweden was in 1879,” the House of the Sea museum in Lysekil, where the fish was taken to, said in a statement.
Dear Clusterflock:
Is it wrong for me to loathe every single fellow shopper when purchasing groceries?
Something comes over me in there. I see people who wander away from their cart left in the middle of the aisle so I have to move it myself. Ignorant morons conducting business on their Bluetooth while checking out the peanut butter selection, or worse, relating embarrassingly private details to the other party. Amped up power walkers who race through the aisles menacingly brandishing their carts as weapons.
I always end up cutting my shopping short and get the fuck out of there before I become homicidal.
Is there something wrong with me?
