zing!
I stumbled on this after a report of James Blake yelling at Shriver for reporting too loudly during a match.
It must be cached because the wiki page has been edited, but here’s to unedited moments.
(Wow, I just went back to check, and it’s already been removed from cache.)
Fuck, watch me reporting, this story is breaking fucking news:
The Helio Sequence – Harmonica Song
I am more interested in you hearing this song than seeing this video.
pairs…
The Latest Errol Morris
According to our sources, it seems Morris has just finished up a brand new documentary, “Tabloid” aka “A Very Special Love Story” (the title is not yet final) about Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who, in the late seventies, abducted Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary in England, chained him to a bed and forced him to have sex with her. But that’s hardly the weirdest thing about McKinney or the case. After jumping bail, she was eventually sentenced in absentia to one year in prison, due to the fact that Britain, at the time, didn’t really have rape laws against men in the books. She was later accused of stalking her victim — who had since married and had children — during the 1980s and in 2008, she gained more media attention after taking her dog to Korea to be cloned.
Announcements like this make me feel all is right in the world.
(via kottke)
Ronya plays the race card
Ronya sent me this card today. Too good not to share.
from the moderated comments
Had it occurred two decades ago, the event would have been acknowledged with an hour-long prime-time network special. As it was, JIMMY DEAN’s death received precious little attention given his monumental contributions to the entertainment industry.
50,000 year-old baby Mammoth
A baby Mammoth older than 50,000 years is being treated for pathogens it still seems to be carrying.
“The slightest lethargic little germ from time immemorial hasn’t the least chance of resisting when you realise that one gamma ray of four grays kills a human.
“We’ve never handled such an old object or fossil, nor a creature unearthed from the permafrost.”
They know it is older than 50,000 years because carbon 14 works for the past 50,000 years and wasn’t able to date it.
Amy said
There’s an idea right here. Porn musicals.
a catalogue of fear, 12
We played at something I forgot: made ourselves in turn to girls. Clumsy approximations in the dark. Flush from memories, without a doubt, we tried again in daylight. Romping until she found us, I ran to hide. Her eventual hand replaced a moment what she put there long before.
Missed Opportunity
It was a classic case of missed opportunity. ‘Cause, I mean, how often do you get a full bladder and a full rainbow at the same instant?
from the moderated comments
ever hear of people first? that would mean saying boy with an intellectual disability (I won’t get started on your use of the outdated term retarded). You certainly wouldn’t have said cancer boy or diabetes boy, right?
something, 45
I said: Kate Spade is here. Aaron said: Is she nude? I said: How did you know? Aaron said: They call her fiery blue, Beta Epsilon. I nodded in agreement.
On a Kid’s T-shirt (for sale) at Kohl’s
Awesome Ends With Me
Take a deep breath and look around. This is it, kids.
Coming from a blog that gives out advice in a sarcastic/caustic way, and mostly for comic effect, this struck me as rather thoughtful, and for that matter, provocative.
I think I’ll just pull the sheets over my head and stay in bed now.
(Walt)
Dudesong
I wrote a big book-length poem version of “The Big Lebowski” called Dudesong. It’s in iambic pentameter, mostly, and rhymes throughout. You can check it out at www.dudesong.com. I hope you enjoy it.
I’m not the Shakespeare guy.
By the way, I’m hesitant to plug my project here because I respect clusterflock immensely. If this crosses a line, please do remove it. It will have taken all of my courage to hit “Publish”.
quote out of context
grandparents produce more calories than they consume
a thousand faces, 6
All Mod Washrooms
and an all-seeing eye. Highways 20 and 84. Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
The Greyhound doesn’t stop here anymore, but you can spy evidence of the glory days in and around what is now the convenience store end of a diminished gas station operation.
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scrap paper fiction, 5
I’m Too Old For This
Mia just asked me, “What’s horse sperm?”
The Last Meal
If you have not read this, enjoy:
A two-ounce songbird. A lemon-sized tumor. An imperial appetite for death, flesh, and the immortal gesture. It was time for dinner.
By Michael Paterniti
The night before the last meal, I visit a stone church where mass is being said. In the back row, a retarded boy sits with his mother, his head tilting heavenward, watching, in an unfocused way, the trapped birds that flutter and spin in the height of the church vault. About a hundred yards away, in the immense holy hangar, tulips bloom on the altar. It’s the end of December — gray has fallen over Paris — and the tulips are lurid-red, gathered in four vases, two to a side. A priest stands among them and raises his arms as if to fly.
The clusterflock meme
There’s a good chance that you’ve come across the word “meme” at some point or another in the past few years. It’s an arcane academic concept but at the same time it’s also one of those things that you can identify, but can’t describe easily. Richard Dawkins coined the phrase in an effort to help explain cultural evolution in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, where it’s defined as a shared element intended to be passed around within a culture, a societal analog to a gene. Everything from Tamagotchis to “That’s what she said” count as memes.
- via Mashable
a catalogue of fear, 11
I stared when she came in. I stared when she pedaled. I stared when she said, “Stop staring at my pussy!” Then I turned around.
Got Fish? | Freecycle Theater
Monologue for one actor.
I have a little girl thats in the stage of experiencing with animals and she really is amazed by see all sorts of fish in an aquarium at home if you have any unwanted fish, tanks or supplies please let me know and i would be more than happy to take them off your hands. thank you.
rdio
I have four rdio invites left. First come, first serve. I’ll send the invite based on the email address you use for the comment.
