Phoenix, Wisconsin
Peggy West is a Milwaukee County supervisor. In a public meeting regarding Arizona’s immigration law, she displays remarkable ignorance of basic U.S. geography.
From: Cory M
Roman Bird Platter
& the importance of forcing a fill flash [which in my case means half-pulling the trigger whilst pointing your gun into a dark corner]…
I can eat a cheeseburger watching someone’s head get cut off and I’m fine with it
Dear Clusterflock
What’s your fight?
Voodoo Balls, Rockets & Missiles. Freeport, TX 77541
The other G20 victims and losers
Photographer Jan Normandale: My advice: come into Toronto this Sunday and have a coffee. The media are controlling your thinking. The real Toronto is still here.
Read more here.
In which
I tell some lies.
from the comments
I am often disappointed if I get in the shower and the bar of soap is a sliver that won’t foam up after much work because it’s just too small. At that point I get out of the shower while it’s running, get a new bar, and fling the sliver in the trash for being a failed soap.
from the comments
Me, Michael Smith, Sheila Ryan, and Cindy S.:
My plan involves combustible feral hogs, underground electric fences, helicopters, the moving of the Grand Canyon, lava, Iron Maiden, a portal into another dimension, anything that walked or crawled at one time or another, bear arms, Chuck Norris, and a specially trained force to conduct car chases in reverse.
From the Comments
…they came, on a dish of ice, looking like a series of productive coughs.
and
…the face grins when the teeth go to work.
spam name
Earl Sheehan.
oh
I press the last bit of soap onto the new bar.
from the comments
From an economics perspective, this may actually be a little high. Assuming the target buyer is a dealer of some sort, what he/she is getting is another hungry mouth to feed with no immediate capacity for performing work or purchasing product. The only scenario I can imagine is speculative buying, wherein the infant is bought solely for the purposes of resale. Barriers here would include the absence of a legal chain of custody and the reluctance of buyers to purchase human goods from a meth dealer, who presumably took the child in barter from a meth head, who would in turn have been subject to any number of health risks that could be passed on to the infant. Were the dealer to have a friend or relative with flexible morals, there might be a way to offer the baby for adoption, but I have no knowledge of any monetary value there, either.
Thus, $25 is probably a bad deal for the meth dealer.
Quote out of context
“One can’t just ride through an area where they are burning and expect to be safe while looking for turtles. We don’t expect that, but we would like to access those areas where we suspect there may be turtles,” said Blair Witherington, a sea turtle research scientist at Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
– Amy Fries
Got Meat (for Dog)? | Freecycle Theater
Monologue for one actor.
I use raw meat to make food for my dog, so I’m looking for any meat that you may have that’s old or freezer burned or that you’re just throwing out because you’re moving or whatever. It doesn’t matter if it’s freezer burned, as long as it’s raw and unprocessed (no seasoned or smoked meats), and was fit for human consumption when it was frozen. Anything that swam, flew, walked or crawled is fine by us. I’ll gladly take it off your hands, and it will go to feed a very sweet and happy pet. Thanks for your time.
plug it in, plug it in
Rand Paul’s plan for border security.
My plans include an underground electronic fence, with helicopter stations to respond quickly to breaches of the border.
quote out of context
He dipped Tiffany pearl earrings in black rubber and sold them in blue Tiffany boxes.
(via kottke)
from the comments
Matt:
I remember being able to read exactly as fast as my modem could deliver characters to the screen. For a while, we delivered, read and turned pages simultaneously. I thought I was flying, and I was.
Want to watch a YouTube video?
Rest in Peace, Ben Sonnenberg
Ben Sonnenberg, whose whims and myriad enthusiasms made Grand Street, the quarterly he founded in 1981, one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 73.
Superclogger
Having passed by the 405 on the way to Newport Beach today, I was reminded how doable this is (via):
Joel Kyack’s (MFA ’08) first large-scale public project, Superclogger, will present various puppet shows to L.A. drivers caught in afternoon traffic jams from a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck. Broadcasting soundtracks discretely to the viewer’s car stereo, Superclogger, curated by Cesar Garcia (MPAS ’09), aims to briefly halt the progression of chaos by temporarily drawing the audience out of the commute experience and placing them within an intimate space of engagement and performance that highlights their own individual presence within the broader structure of the traffic jam.
$25 baby
Gulf Resort
A part of me hopes this isn’t anything more than some playful Photoshopping. Either way, it puts things in perspective.
Oscar the bionic cat
Lucy sent me this yesterday:
After losing his two rear paws in a nasty encounter with a combine harvester last October, the black cat with green eyes was outfitted with metallic pegs that link the ankles to new prosthetic feet and mimic the way deer antlers grow through skin. Oscar is now back on his feet and hopping over hurdles like tissue paper rolls.
a catalogue of fear, 15
As soon as I took one off, another replaced it. I could tell it wasn’t her. I just wanted to make sure. Smothered in masks, she never appeared.
