quote out of context
Because it was found deep inside a pile of human excrement and was the characteristic orange-brown color that bone turns when it has passed through the digestive tract, the fragment provides the earliest direct evidence that dogs — besides being used for company, security and hunting — were eaten by humans and may even have been bred as a food source, he said.
this is kind of sad, but I’m very much looking forward to it
She wants you to know that the word douche in French means shower
the thought that counts
Mr. Landis — often under his own name, though more recently as Father Scott or as a collector named Steven Gardiner — has indeed done a lot of traveling over the past two decades, but not for the church. He has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting himself at their doors, where he tells well-concocted stories about his family’s collection and donates small, expertly faked works, sometimes in honor of nonexistent relatives.
Unlike most forgers, he does not seem to be in it for the money, but for a kind of satisfaction at seeing his works accepted as authentic. He takes nothing more in return for them than an occasional lunch or a few tchotchkes from the gift shop.
I think there’s a movie here. I picture Michael Stipe as Landis. Or shit, I guess the obvious choice is John Malkovich.
spam name
Pedro M. Farley.
Paula Carino, The couch dwellers
Paula Carino, The couch dwellers
STILL LOOKING: More Mystery, Less Romance
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle group Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:34 pm (PST):
My mom is stuck inside most of the winter and is looking for books to read. She likes mystery/romance novels. She doesn’t like Silhouette. They don’t have enough mystery and too much romance. If anyone has any they would like to get rid of, please let me know. I can pick up in Dubuque.
Ask a law librarian
Deranged-looking man: “You know what I mean, uh, ya know, they just can’t go around neglectin’ a person when they know what a acoot disorder is ya see ya know what I mean because that paper shoulda bin give t’ me due to bi-partisanship ya know what I’m sayin’ ‘cause I was in a false imprisonment lockup deal ya know what I mean?”
Librarian: “What is it you want to do in court?”
Acoot disorder: “I wanna represent myself as an attorney you know you know what I mean but they say like they say ya know that I can’t like represent like myself but it say right chere a person has a right to represent his own very self.”
Librarian: “What is it that you are trying to do?”
Acoot disorder: “I wanna represent myself as an attorney but the book don’t tell me how much I can sue for. I need some damages know what I mean you know like some damages. I think I deserve half a mill but I’ll settle myself for 30 thousand.”
Librarian: “For?”
Acoot disorder: “Fo’ the right to represent myself. It say right chere ‘an individual litigant has the right to represent herself without an attorney.’ But I ain’t no herself. I’m a hisself. You got another book with that in it that say him or her?”
Librarian: “Well, that’s just a word. It includes male and female.”
Acoot disorder: “’Cause I’m a hisself ya know know what I mean an’ I have come to the realization that being sentenced to incarceration caused me to use medication so now self representation ya know they tellin’ me like I can’t represent myself ‘cause of my acoot disorder like ya know ya know what I mean ‘cause I’m like bipolar.”
The Marina
spam name
Tama Earleen.
Jurassic Pre-Historic Park, for reals
Japanese researchers plan to clone a mammoth within five years:
The team, which has invited a Russian mammoth researcher and two US elephant experts to join the project, has established a technique to extract DNA from frozen cells, previously an obstacle to cloning attempts because of the damage cells sustained in the freezing process.
Another Japanese researcher, Teruhiko Wakayama of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, succeeded in 2008 in cloning a mouse from the cells of another that had been kept in temperatures similar to frozen ground for 16 years.
The scientists extracted a cell nucleus from an organ of a dead mouse and planted it into the egg of another mouse which was alive, leading to the birth of the cloned mouse.
Based on Wakayama’s techniques, Iritani’s team devised a method to extract the nuclei of mammoth eggs without damaging them.
quote out of context
“You can extend the life of your knee socks and stockings by keeping your toenails trimmed and filed,” Zurich-based UBS told its female staff. “Always have a spare pair: stockings can be provisionally repaired with transparent nail polish and a bit of luck.”
sit a spell
I got on a bus last Thursday — something I haven’t done since my twenties — and headed to Houston, where I watched a majority of the footage I collected a few years ago for a costume documentary. The idea of watching all the footage had become overwhelming, so Aaron was kind enough to set aside a few days to watch through it with me. We watched at least twenty hours, maybe, and having someone there to make it through the tedious moments and compare notes with really helped. I have probably half a dozen more hours of footage to look through now that I am home, but that prospect doesn’t seem nearly as overwhelming. Once I do that, then we will figure out what happens next. I’m glad I did it. Thanks, Aaron. I hope everyone is well.
from the spam
Hi, I suddenly feel a blaze of power to my left, and glance up at an attic window.
tweet of the day (yesterday)
Sarah Palin, Battle Hymn of the Republic
Let this wash over you.
Put some heat on, Catfish
V8 Engine Made From Lego
Wow.
headline of the day
Florida woman accused of slapping a police horse
‘Jurassic Park’ theme 1000% slower becomes an ambient symphony
The three-minute theme to ‘Jurassic Park’ becomes an hour-long ambient symphony when slowed down eighteen times.
(via @georgelazenby )
Social Animal
…we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.
Read more: The New Yorker.
Listen to Our Lucy
Monday, January 17, 1:00 pm EST on WFMU. Our Lucy — Lucy Foley, together with her band, will perform live in the WFMU studio — and chat with program host Irene Trudel.
Update: You can also watch a short video (made at Wombat Recording) featuring Lucy Foley on vocals and Ross Bonadonna on guitar.
(the ghost of) Paul Klee on Twitter
Long before Twitter there was Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine (1922).
MOMA’s description of it could just as easily apply to Twitter Inc.: «Upon closer inspection, however, an uneasy sensation of looming menace begins to manifest itself. Composed of a wiry, nervous line, these creatures bear a resemblance to birds only in their beaks and feathered silhouettes; they appear closer to deformations of nature. The hand crank conjures up the idea that this “machine” is a music box, where the birds function as bait to lure victims to the pit over which the machine hovers. We can imagine the fiendish cacophony made by the shrieking birds, their legs drawn thin and taut as they strain against the machine to which they are fused.».
[ReTweeted from @5cense, which i've been "tweeting" daily from also before there was Twitter, Inc.]
Delicately vs. Indelicately
I’ve decided you can tell a lot about a person based on the way he or she interacts with a credit card reader. Some hover with their VISAs just above where they should swipe, waiting for the very last of their items to be rung up — lest their card be charged without their consent. Why don’t they know that until an “Accept” button is clicked on their total purchase, from their end, no transaction has occurred? Or some others! Who treat the stylus used to sign the reader like it’s the impediment, like it’s the reason they’re not already home with pantry stocked and feet sheathed in slippers. I can’t believe how begrudging people can be with a measly credit-card-reader pen.
“How My Amazing Grandfather Met Martin Luther King” by Jeremy Williamson (3rd Grade)
Penned a decade or so ago by the younger son of my friends Lydia and Al and rediscovered just this month.
My grandpa John Snow was the director of a place for people who had nervous breakdowns or other bad troubles in their lives. The place was called Gould Farm. Although it may seem strange, it was through his work at this place that John met an amazing man of peace. This is the story of that important meeting and how it happened.
