owl on a bike
For those who loved owl in a hat.
Photo by Adam Norwood (via)
higgledy-piggledy, 1
His particleboard furniture looks like it was salvaged from a rural roadside free pile; a power strip is bolted arbitrarily to the wall; wires are strung higgledy-piggledy as if by an adolescent hobbyist; and this former heir to a multimillion Saudi fortune gets relegated to watching standard def video on a TV you couldn’t get $5 for on Craigslist. It seems only a matter of time before we’re told they found porn on his computer.
The Internet
Dear clusterflock
Today is more than just your routine Tuesday. Michael Smith is now 30 years old today! I heard from a reliable source that he really was torn up over missing clusterflockstock this year. Happy birthday, Mr. Smith. We missed you there too.
quote out of context
“We deal with these guys all the time, especially the clergy. It’s amazing how many of the clergy are involved in those lies to build that flock up,” said retired SEAL Don Shipley. Shipley also speculated the waterboarding and kitchen details came from the action depicted in “Under Siege.”
The Milan Review
The Milan Review looks to be a promising new literary journal/press started by Tim Small, the editor of Italian Vice. Their inaugural issue/project [The Milan Review of Ghosts] features stories by Dave Cull, Jonathan Dixon, Glen Hirschberg, Noy Holland, Jonathon Keats, Tao Lin, Clancy Martin, E.C. Osondu, Dawn Raffel, Nelly Reifler, Rebecca Rosenblum, Deb Olin Unferth, Corinna Vallianatos and Brent Van Horne and illustrations by Matt Furie and Maison Du Crac. You can preview it here.
What I’m Listening to: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome
Naturally, Rome can’t possibly exceed the sum of its parts, with its successful composer and arranger in Luppi, its groundbreaking producer and composer in Danger Mouse, countless combined years of orchestra experience, a painstaking recording process with vintage equipment, and the juxtaposition of White’s fatalistic moan with Jones’ coolly detached croon. It almost has to sound better on paper than in practice, but it’s terrific in practice, too, as it alternates appropriately cinematic instrumentals with a handful of nifty showcases for its headliners.
I think it’s hard to talk about your personal life with family
HipHop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
Apologies if you already know about this documentary, but I was just exposed to it in my Cross-Cultural Counseling class.
If you hadn’t heard of this and liked it, try checking out The New Jim Crow.
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The level of confusion will match the level of delight.
The Ascent
Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have combined an EEG reader with a flight harness, letting people fly when they calm themselves sufficiently.
Destruction Party
For anyone who couldn’t hear me shyly whispering at Clusterflockstock, this is what I’ve been up to lately. I wrote, and am directing a short film. This is our Kickstarter promo video, link to the Kickstarter coming soon.
(We just wrapped Prodigal, a mini-feature starring Kenneth Branagh yesterday. I was the set-decorator on that one. Workaholics, we’re diving right into this.)
headline of the day, part II
Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy
Story Starts
I always hated getting under the house until then I didn’t.
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“I wish she would quit bringing that bean salad. It always reminds me of how Bud kept losing his shoes.”
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In the treehouse, above a sea of water hemlock, she said I could touch her if I wanted to. She said it didn’t matter. And so I did. And it didn’t.
headline of the day
Olympic hopeful rescued on Miami beach after being buried in sand
fyi
Creepy is a good Google image search.
quote out of context
If everybody is where they want to be, no one is going anywhere.
things I heard last week
I’m backwards flite kying.
I can’t get used to this creepy lake weed.
I love my robot.
That’s not a joke, it’s naming a lake.
I’d rather make mistakes in my own pants.
You’ll notice you never saw an animated duck wearing pants.
The knees fucked the tail.
I love creatures with eyes on the side of their head.
Isn’t it good we have roofs over our heads rather than tents.
first sentence
I made a vagina in the dirt.
Is The Mighty Boosh Right for You?
Amanda introduced us to The Mighty Boosh, and Amy and I have finished the first two seasons. This Wikipedia quote might be all you need to know to decide if the show is right for you.
Fielding plays various other characters in the television show including: Tony Harrison, a small pink head with tentacles and member of the shaman council; The Hitcher, a cockney hitch-hiker with a polo mint for an eye, who enjoys “cutting people up”; Spider Dijon, a bongoist in Rudi’s band; and Old Gregg, a hermaphroditic merman obsessed with Bailey’s Irish Cream and water-colours, who is infatuated with Howard and possesses ‘The Funk’, a living creature about the size of a medicine ball, but covered in purple teats, which leak funky goodness to help music careers.
You can buy episodes here.
Photos of kids
who are Too Big for Strollers.
(Thanks, Susan.)
from the comments
If ever I meet you, I am sure that within minutes I will be laughing so hard that I will be farting up my vagina.
from the comments
Hung like a pawn shop.
Paul Butterfield on “To Tell the Truth”
(Thanks, Tommy.)
from the comments
The Man in the Yellow Hat. From three years ago. From a dear dear friend.
I really detest representations of monkeys. Photos, motion pictures and television. They always give me the creeps.
But up close, they seem perplexed and annoyed — and generally obfuscating like motherfuckers.
Ever notice how monkeys lie to humans? And why not?
Remember Curious George?
Fucking book was about a slaver.
The exact narrative of Kunte-Kinte, only with balloons. Know what I mean?
The Man in the Yellow Hat?
Jesus Christ, what a terrifying name. Like somebody from a bad dream in Berlin, circa 1922, via UFA.
