Amy said
I think my high school nemesis just sent me a friend request.
The December elimae,
the final issue of the year, is now posted. Rock on, all!
headline of the day, IV
Dunlop, Yokohama And Pirelli.
from the spam
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a thousand faces, niece edition
from the comments
Daryl Scroggins quoting Raymond Carver:
A man with no hands came to the door to sell me a picture of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
“How did you lose your hands?” I asked, after he’d said what he wanted.
“That’s another story,” he said. “You want the picture or not?”
headline of the day, III
Former AU politician Kennett advocates mints as drunk driving cure
Ten Years On
Jeffery Toobin on the legacy of Bush v. Gore:
Momentous Supreme Court cases tend to move quickly into the slipstream of the Court’s history. In the first ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that ended the doctrine of separate but equal in public education, the Justices cited the case more than twenty-five times. In the ten years after Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision of 1973, there were more than sixty-five references to that landmark. This month marks ten years since the Court, by a vote of five-to-four, terminated the election of 2000 and delivered the Presidency to George W. Bush. Over that decade, the Justices have provided a verdict of sorts on Bush v. Gore by the number of times they have cited it: zero.
headline of the day, II
Drivers Transporting Nuclear Material Arrested For Public Intoxication, Bar Fights
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headline of the day
Alcoholic Whipped Cream: Another Binge Drink in a Can?
from the comments
Did I tell any of you about my Australian T-Shirt design? It was going to have a guy playing a didgeridoo and a guy standing there and it was going to be unclear if the the didgeridoo noise was coming from the instrument or the other guy’s arse and it was going to say “What Did Geri Doo?”
Also, that’s how I remember how to spell Didgeridoo.
from the comments
“Us? We gots all kinds of creative holidays. Like (and prepare yourself for it, the creativity is going to blow your mind…)………………… Australia Day (Jan 26th), which is essentially a day similar to your Thanksgiving; the family gets together, Dad cooks something, makes Dad jokes and eventually falls asleep in front of the television, precariously balancing a full glass of red wine on his stomach, whilst Mum (that’s Mom to you) gets drunk on dessert wine (hey, just like Thanksgiving) and passes out on a pool lounge with the latest Stephen King book in her hand (seriously, the number of times my Mum has woken up with a booked shaped tan line on her face is unbelievable). Then, there’s Melbourne Cup Day (its a holiday built around drinking champagne and a horse race) and, well, that’s about the long and the short of it. Oh, wait, we also celebrate the Queens Birthday in June (just an excuse to get drunk again) and Anzac Day (where we “have a beer” for the fallen troops). Now that I’m writing it down, it would seem that a substantial number of our holiday’s revolve around alcohol and food… But hey, that’s Australia for you. There’s not much to do here unless you’re a Kangaroo riding expert, and that’s not as easy as it sounds.”
from the comments
I got real sick off tacos in Mexico and thought I was dying. I wrote Terry Pratchett a fan letter as my last act on this earth.
from the comments
The law librarian has the strongest constitution I have ever encountered. She will eat anything. Years ago when she worked here, she brought in a restaurant-size jar of dill pickles that had “Keep Refrigerated” plastered all over it. She left it sitting on top of the refrigerator for months. One day I decided to ask her about it, and she said, “That’s ridiculous. Nobody could fit that into a refrigerator.”
nobody just wants it, on wheels
You don’t want to make this deal alone. Trust me.
Cuando estoy borracho, me muero de tacos en México | Para Cindita
Indianizing the Facebook “Like” button
Or, like, it’s all like, so, like, UScentric.
Happy Birthday, QZAP!
So long as it is still November, I say it is still the seventh anniversary of the Queer Zine Archive Project.
QZAP has been online for seven years. What started as a way of sharing information from zines with radical queers at Queeruption has grown into a real living archive accessed by hundreds of people a day.
A wonderful living labor of love.
Where do you draw the line?
I don’t think twice about buying something that has reached its SELL BY date. If the price is reduced, so much the better.
I will almost always eat something that dropped to the floor.
I will eat pretty much any leftover that I forgot to put in the refrigerator the night before.
Email from afar.
Thought you guys would like this:
Trees, mountains, dial-up internet. Sagebrush, desert, stars, peach champagne and turkey. That could be the greatest sounding thanksgiving in the history of thanksgivings. I tried to talk my family into having a turkey lunch with me but they politely declined. I found them next to the pool an hour later eating Doritos, drunk off dessert wine and trying to plot the best way to get Domino’s Pizza to fail on its “30 minutes or its free” guarantee. I guess, in some kind of weird way, that is an Australian thanksgiving….
(Personal communication via e-mail, 11.29.10)
dear clusterflock
How was your holiday?
quote out of context
“Just because something works in one culture, doesn’t mean it’s going to work in another culture,” said Mr. Gernert, who teaches about world cultures at nearby Cedar Crest High School. “In our country, we don’t hang animals in our storefronts like other cultures. Food is different. Transportation, patience, people, their temperaments, are different from country to country.”
Picasso’s Electrician
A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist’s estate said Monday.
The electrician, who once worked for Picasso, and his wife for years squirreled away the staggering trove — which is believed to be authentic — inside a trunk in the garage of their home on the French Riviera.
The cache, dating from the artist’s most creative period from 1900 to 1932, includes lithographs, portraits, watercolors, and sketches — plus nine Cubist collages said to be worth 40 million euros alone, according to French daily Liberation, which first reported Monday on the discovery.
