My food truck fantasies
Fransk dog as served by Danish pølsevogn. (via Street Cuisine)
have been evolving over the past week, which began with my confessing to having entertained the notion of converting my Honda Element into a food truck. A friend asked what I’d serve.
“Pasties,” I replied. “Spicy pasties.”
Then I got thinking. Ooh, yes. And empanadas. And samosas. And calzones. And pierogis. And knishes.
But I got sidetracked by an art project.
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how do you read clusterflock?
This might not be the best day to ask this, considering the holiday, but I am curious how people read clusterflock: RSS, Twitter, Google Reader, the site itself, at a computer, on a mobile device…. Knowing how, and when, the site is viewed, especially by those who may read but not normally comment, would be greatly appreciated. And of course, regular commenters please jump in as well.
What do these people have in common?
(Aside from being mental as anything.)
I just learned via Roger Ebert that I share a birthday with David Foster Wallace.
I already knew about my natal link with Nina Simone, W. H. Auden, Sam Peckinpah, and Anaïs Nin.
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Before he shot himself fatally in the chest Thursday, the former Chicago Bears defensive back Dave Duerson sent family members text messages requesting that his brain tissue be examined for the same damage recently found in other retired players, two people aware of the messages said Saturday night.
As a longtime force in the N.F.L. players union, Duerson, 50, was keenly aware of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to depression, dementia and occasionally suicide among more than a dozen deceased players. He had expressed concern in recent months that he might have had the condition, said one person close to him who spoke on condition of anonymity.
from the comments
Sheila Ryan quoting Robert Benchley:
The secret of my incredible energy and efficiency in getting work done is a simple one. I have based it very deliberately on a well-known psychological principle and have refined it so that it is now almost too refined. I shall have to begin coarsening it up again pretty soon.
The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Hillman Curtis — Bobbi Brown: fashion shoot
Behind the scenes at a Bobbi Brown cosmetics shoot.
quote out of context
Someday, patients who are bed-ridden will be able to wear a special electronic cap that allows them to maneuver a rolling robot carrying a video camera, so that the patient could join in the dinner conversation without leaving the bedroom.
from the comments
I found this almost a month late, thanks to Josh Weichhand. My answers, remembered chronologically: AYSO, sitting on the roof of my childhood home to watch airplanes take off and land, Houdini (the family Golden Retriever), swimming competitively, early HTML and IM, not knowing the right way to cut a vein, The Five Senses, New York, walking for hours, photography, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, exploring by bicycle, international travel, Nina, hot baths, clusterflock, the Pacific, meeting my family as adults and as an adult, and having a spacious kitchen. Only one of the above literally saved me, but the rest feel just as important.
from the comments
W.C. Fields was not fond of children. He especially disliked Baby Leroy (the toddler who played Baby Elwood in It’s a Gift). One morning Fields put gin in the boy’s orange juice, and the child went tumbling down the stairs. Fields commented, “I had a suspicion he couldn’t hold his liquor.”
«The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.»
More snapshots & musings from Delhi whilst reading Albert Camus & E.O. Wilson.
from the moderated comments
Fucktard.
I said
It doesn’t sound like Angus when I hear it from here.
It’s an idea whose time has come
The Affair
Also NSFW. RIP Tracy Wright.
Super Sari Saturday Night
on Devon Avenue, Chicago’s principal Indo-Pak commercial strip.
Nathan Barley
Maybe NSFW, mild swearing? This clip feels a lot like my life sometimes, especially the last five seconds.
(Cinefamily in Los Angeles is showing the entire Nathan Barley series on March 5th. I’ll be there.)
This was impromptu
after farting
It’s a call to joy.
Amy said
I think if I have a hat face, I would also have a turban face.
“Next Time, I’ll Spend The Money on Drugs Instead”
From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue accountDear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.
Yours sincerely, Jane GillesFrom: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue accountDear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.
Regards, David.
dear clusterflock
Which of your friends do you think will be the most famous?
Northend
from the spam
I like cake. Not that it has anything to do with what exactly you are discussing.
Baby Trashes Bar
Oddly enough, this makes me want to have children.
Terry Gross Interviews James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem
“When I hit my early thirties I decided to do something which is radical to my mind, which is to stop complaining about things.”
