Irene Corey
“People often say to me that they envy my talent,” Ms. Corey told Dr. Hill in 1994. “I think they should envy my discipline.”
I interviewed her niece for the costume documentary. I did not realize until yesterday that she had passed.
from the spam
George Lopez YOU ARE NOT FUNNY AND I DONT WANT TO PARTY WITH YOU
If you can read this, please tweet “brown cheese is the best cheese”
If you visit a city, make sure you buy a T-shirt with that cities name on it so people know you went to that city.
What happens after Yahoo acquires you
Yahoo is that guy you find delightfully amusing for his incompetence:
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucracy. The products slow down or stop moving forward entirely. Once they hit the two-year mark and are free to leave, the founders take off. The sites are left to flounder or ride into the sunset. And customers are left holding the bag.
spam name
Reba Chasity.
Update: Wilhemina Quyen.
truth
John C Jay: ”Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them.”
The Honey Badger
(thanks, Mr. Lang)
Dear Clusterflock
What are you listening to?
Shadows
It’s a story about casting shadows and she says, “Well everyone casts a shadow,” and he says, “Sure, but not everyone does it like this.”
He does something with his hand but it just looks like a hand to her.
Some days he says words that mean things now. Some days he says words that never meant nothing. Some days she has to struggle to tell the difference and that’s always been his game since whenever they fell together and maybe that’s just part of whatever it is that’s made this all worth the journey.
She had a crappy little flat in Montparnasse when they met a lifetime ago. Her dad bought it for her. He said she would do well to come in from the country and live like a lady.
They met on a train. She dropped a book. He watched her drop a book. She watched him pick it up.
The first night she invited him to her crappy little flat he slept on the floor. The second night she slept on the floor too.
On Saturdays they would go to the cemetery and write poems about people who would never go to cemeteries and she would say, “Well everyone goes to a cemetery eventually,” and he would say, “Sure, but not everyone does it like this.”
headline of the day, II
Oral sex is leading cause of increasing U.S. cancer rates, compared to tobacco use in other nations
Yes and Starship Trooper
From the TRIPLE album Yessongs! 1973 and live.
I know I won’t win any friends, but, what the fuck!
I looked for the Prog Rock category, but, couldn’t find it!
“According to Ed, he walked in and said, ‘Hi, David, I’m Detective Zigo,’” his family recounted. “And Berkowitz said ‘Hi, Ed. I’m the Son of Sam.’”
The detective who cracked the Son of Sam case died Saturday.
Zigo said there were several omens the summer day he and his partner went looking for the car’s owner. First, they were given keys to police car No. 316. No big deal, except that Berkowitz lived at 316 Warburton Avenue, in Yonkers.
On their way there, the detectives stopped at the scene of a bad traffic accident and pulled some people from their car. They were pleased they may have saved some lives. “Good things are gonna happen today,” Zigo recalled saying.
During the rescue, the detectives had gotten blood on their hands. They asked a pushcart vendor for some water, and he offered his cooking pan. Zigo remembered turning the water a pale shade of red.
When they got near the address in Yonkers, they made a wrong turn and wound up on Wicker Street. Zigo had been privy to a Son of Sam letter that had mentioned “Wicker,” a reference that had completely baffled police. Zigo remembered turning to his partner and saying, “John, we got him.”
headline of the day
Nevada Co. cops tackle mystery of man wounded by samurai sword
Middle-class rabbits
1980s: During its examination of school learning materials, the London County Council in England banned the use of Beatrix Potter’s children’s classics The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny from all London schools. The reason: the stories portrayed only “middle-class rabbits.”
Ya gotta wonder. Beatrix Potter “banned”? The skeptic in me wonders.
from the archives: January 8, 2007
I just watched the amazing and captivating Le Mans, featuring Steve McQueen and tons of racing. Someone needs to convince me not to purchase this jacket.
tweet of the day
foley artist, Gary Hecker
This clip comes across a little Christopher Guest, but shows foley artist Gary Hecker creating the sounds that make you think you hear what you see when you watch a movie.
Gary Hecker is a veteran foley artist who uses a myriad of objects to create organic sounds in sync with what unfolds on the screen. Thousands of sounds are layered together in a single scene. The goal, according to King, is to underline the emotion of a scene, be it terror, suspense or sorrow.
A few more videos at the link.
Cornish pasty wins protected status
The European commission has awarded the Cornish pasty “protected geographical indication” (PGI) status. Only pasties prepared in Cornwall according to the traditional recipe can be described as Cornish pasties. Pasties prepared in Cornwall and baked elsewhere in Britain may be sold as Cornish pasties.
The Cornish Pasty Association said a genuine Cornish pasty had a distinctive “D” shape and was crimped on one side, never on top.
“The texture of the filling is chunky, made up of uncooked minced or roughly cut chunks of beef (not less than 12.5%), swede, potato, and onion with a light seasoning. The pastry casing is golden in colour, savoury, glazed with milk or egg and robust enough to retain its shape throughout the cooking and cooling process without splitting or cracking. The pasty is slow-baked and no artificial flavourings or additives must be used.”
Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized on Kickstarter
Gary Hustwit, director of the documentaries Helvetica and Objectified, is financing the final production phase of his third film, Urbanized, on Kickstarter.
We’ve already spent over a year and some substantial production costs making Urbanized, with over 100 people involved in the film thus far. We’re knee-deep in the editing process now with Helvetica editor Shelby Siegel, but we still have several more filming trips to make this spring, and then we tackle post-production tasks like sound editing, color correction, and other tech work before completing the film this summer.
free streaming on Amazon with Prime membership
from the comments
I will fix your links, and I will fix them permanently, gouging and etching that coding so far into the fabric of time and space that God himself couldn’t redirect shit if He laid hands on it and cried out to the baby Jesus.
Live the Language
A series of videos combining travel and typography, which captures “the sheer joy of deciphering a new language in an unfamiliar city.” More here.
Chai man petting his cow (Jaipur)
Green Hair
I remember a picture I drew of my family when I was in the first grade. I’m not sure whether it was just the way I perceived cool brown hair or whether my father was a Green Man figure in my mind, but I always drew him with brown with a little bit of green in his hair.
As Part of my Funemployment…
I’ve been watching this. I never knew this show existed until today.
Architect Barbie
She’s not wearing enough black to be an architect.
