headline of the day
Hydro man lands in jail over poodle rescue
minor party status
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is doing so poorly that if he draws less than ten percent of the vote next week, Republican Party candidates will appear, across the board, at the bottom of the ballot for the next four years.
Our state house and senate candidates will similarly be relegated to bottom positions. In 2014, when we have our US Senate, Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer etc races, again, we will be at the bottom of the ballot fighting the libertarians etc for ballot placement. As we all know, being at the top or toward the top can mean several percentage points in the vote, enough in a close race to secure victory.
Jane Austen’s Editor
Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as “Pride and Prejudice.” She said Saturday that they contradicted the claim by Austen’s brother Henry that “everything came finished from her pen.”
“In reading the manuscripts, it quickly becomes clear that this delicate precision is missing,” Sutherland said.
Sutherland argues for the importance of Austen’s editor, William Gifford, on the later novels, and that the earlier novels share similarities with the handwritten manuscripts.
The handwritten manuscripts are now online.
As though it is flying, no?
understanding the tea party
The Washington Post spent months contacting every tea party group in the country in an attempt at understanding the attitudes and positions of the movement that has taken up so much of the national media’s attention, especially the twenty-four hour cable shows.
Seventy percent of the grass-roots groups said they have not participated in any political campaigning this year. As a whole, they have no official candidate slates, have not rallied behind any particular national leader, have little money on hand, and remain ambivalent about their goals and the political process in general.
“We’re not wanting to be a third party,” said Matt Ney, 55, the owner of a Pilates studio and a founder of the Pearland Tea Party Patriots in Pearland, Tex. “We’re not wanting to endorse individual candidates ever. What we’re trying to do is be activists by pushing a conservative idea.”
spam name
Van Camille.
headline of the day
’08 kidnapping haunts Fletcher Corny Dog victim as men’s charges reduced
story in search of a punchline
Twelve Clemson linemen missed the pregame meal trapped in an elevator between the first and second floors.
“The fire department came. They had to break the door and hold it to where they could crawl out and jump down. There were standing ovations as they were coming out soaking wet. They were shaken up by it. I told them in there … this is about momentum. No fire alarm, no elevator, none of that could have stopped the momentum we’re building. They shook it off and we went back.”
A ghostly visage
Escondido, CA – 10.22.2010
edward venti hands
one of five things that Lunchbreath imagines will happen with Starbucks serving beer
Wet Dog
someday you’ll find it, the sidewalk collection
My brother had a sidewalk collection. He would walk home from school carrying chunks of it in his arms. He kept them in the closet we shared. Big chunks. Heavy enough you wondered how he got them home. I don’t know what his criteria were, other than availability — a large chunk broken clear by a root or the hot and cold seesaw of the changes in the weather.
quote out of context
In London, there’s even a term for triathletes pushing middle age: Mamils, which stands for middle-aged men in Lycra.
Life
“My most spectacular one was in Sacramento. …” he now says with a smile, drifting off into a fond-sounding reverie that involves a guitar string touching an ungrounded microphone and clouds of smoke billowing out of his mouth. He has a good laugh at the memory of finding himself in a hospital and hearing a doctor say, “Well, they either wake up or they don’t.”
From Keith Richards’ autobiography.
Saids
Cindy: “I’ve reached my quota for asshole Buddhists.”
Daryl: “I’m going to write a book titled The History of Baptismal Electrocutions.”
Sale ends 30-year history ended Kasettouokuman — the Sony Walkman is no more
Sony to exit the domestic market for cassette Walkman. Has already finished the last shipment of five models at the end of April, we run out of the store inventory turn, would disappear.
In other words, Sony has shipped the last batch of cassette-based Walkmen, and when they sell out, the Sony Walkman is no more.
Michael,
What the fuck is up with Brian Wilson’s beard? (As you can see, it’s almost unphotographable. This snap doesn’t do it justice.)
Update: This does it justice.
bait for a scuba diver + typography geek
Most type designers are understandably proud of their work. But Cobden-Sanderson, the maker of the beautiful Doves type, was so taken by it, and so keen that his former business partner shouldn’t use it after his death, that he resolved to drown every letter in the Thames. In 1916 he began loading up his bicycle under cover of darkness and throwing his font under Hammersmith bridge. He made more than 100 separate trips, a large undertaking for a man of 76. And much of it still remains in its watery grave, forming itself into such words as the tide dictates.
The Coffee Wars
(via Matt Haughey)
It’s “All You Can Eat”
“Leftover food may result in a $50 fine.”
My friend and I had worked up our appetites shopping at De Colores, where, for ten dollars even, I bought four pairs of earrings, one necklace, one eyeliner, two lip crayons, and a Spanish translation of the Holy Bible measuring 1½ inches by 1½ inches (with keyring attached). It was a special day, and we felt special, and so we said, “To hell with the food court. Today is a special day. We want lunch in a real restaurant” and sashayed into the Empress Buffet Emperor Buffet Imperial Buffet Chinese-American steam table joint, where they really really really really really do not want you to WASTE food.
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A Meditation
Beauty emerges, and it is that sense of it stepping forth from chaos that makes it beautiful. A difference that gathers what suddenly can’t be endured otherwise.
More WikiLeaks
More Wikileaks Iraq War documents were released yesterday, and there’s a little something for everyone.
As the insurgency raged in Iraq, U.S. troops struggling to fight a shadowy enemy killed civilians, witnessed their Iraqi partners abuse detainees and labored to reduce Iran’s influence over the fighting.
God, it ain’t as pretty as it looks
1993 Lincoln Town Car Apocalimo
“All Sorts of Sports,” the unfinished Dr. Seuss manuscript
According to the auction house, longtime La Jolla resident Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991, “wrote the first seven pages of the draft” in the late ’60s. An assistant completed the manuscript, the auctioneers said. On a note written on Cat in the Hat stationery, Seuss himself discussed why he was not a fan of the story, then acknowledged, “I may be wrong of course … so why not send it to Harper and Row who do very good brat books and several times have made best sellers out of properties that I’ve rejected?”
The manuscript sold for $34,004 to an undisclosed buyer.
