awesome headline of the day
Jetman Yves Rossy Flies Above the Grand Canyon Using Jet Wings
If I weren’t a vegetarian
I’d go into a restaurant and ask, “Tengo niño back ribs?”
headline of the day, II
Baptist minister creates world’s fastest motorcycle hearse
Lured Despite
I haven’t been tempted to reread Dune since that vacation on Padre Island when I was fifteen, and I couldn’t stick it out to the end of David Lynch’s film, but hey — I have this thing for Alejandro Jodorowsky, so I’m thinking I’ll want to see this documentary about his failed attempt to film Dune back in the seventies.
Meet the Flockers : Flannery Scroggins
Greetings, flock. Thanks for welcoming me into the fold. I’ve met several of you — and was raised by a couple of you — so it’s about damn time.
All these years as a Copywriter and I’ve never been any good at writing about myself. Let’s see how this goes.
I was a Creative Director for a while — yes, like Don Draper, but with less Herman Miller and fewer hookers. I left the Advertising industry for ethical reasons, but I still enjoy a drink at 11am now and again.
These days, I’m an independent brand consultant and brand manager; I also take photographs (of lots of things, but people mostly pay me to photograph dogs).
I’m a Scorpio born under the year of the Rooster (uh, Cock). I turned 29 last year and will continue to do so for a few more years, I think.
I’m married to a Visual Effects Supervisor, so all of our home movies have green-screened light saber battles and Michael Bay-esque explosions in them. If y’all ever need anything exploded or set on fire, I know just the guy for the job.
I love tiny container gardens, Anthropologie, the color of sea glass, the word “cohesive,” Juergen Teller, South Austin, green zinnias, and the way light falls on the floor through the sheer curtains in my living room.
I also have a bunch of tattoos, am a pretty funny drunk, and I’m pretty sure my lens is bigger than yours.
headline of the day
We Have Found bin Laden’s Porn
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion
Damn, this is beautiful. If you are impatient start nineteen seconds in.
(via kottke)
this picture of Faulkner always cracks me up
quote out of context
“This is both very exciting and somewhat frightening at the same time,” says Gerwin Schalk, a researcher who studies ECoG at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center in Albany. “It really goes pretty close to what people used to call mind reading.”
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from the comments
So, Scott would put his little baggie of Vienna Sausages and cheese on the windowsill of the Chelsea where he was staying, closing the window onto the top of the bag. That way it would stay cool, like he liked it. But every morning he’d raise the window and the bag would fall down 7 flights to the ground. And Scott would say God Damn It.
from the comments
What is and was and will be is only a subset of what is and was and will be possible. I mean this in a technical way for which my language is probably insufficiently precise, but the way I said it feels better in the context.
from the comments
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Betty’s Party Pigs-in-a-Blanket Recipe
Ingredients
8 oz. refrigerated package crescent dinner rolls
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Dipping mustard
Amy said
You know, Deron, a big part of story is character. It’s not just who it happens to, it’s who happens it.
Bonus Amy said Update: Daryl can use that for his class if he wants to.
What’s a mensch?
Do you like cringe inducing political ads?
Chromebook
WANT.
from the archives: June 29, 2006
Radiographer (Perry Blake Now Owes Me $156):
My final was yesterday, orientation for the next semester is tomorrow, and today, with no plans, I sat around and was bored, that is, until I read a review of the Adam Sandler film “Click”. Memories started flooding me from my old life in Hollywood. I had to see the film because there were a few things I had to know.
kids today
A 16-year-old from the Toronto area used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that shows potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis.
When I was sixteen, I fucked a grapefruit.
tweet of the day
Note from Flannery
Mia is watching the episode of Beavis and Butthead where they go to the plastic surgeon for wiener implants.
Bill Morrison: “The Miners’ Hymns” trailer
The juxtaposition wherein kids and dogs race up a slag heap in one decade, then race down in another. My god.
Bill Morrison: “The Miners’ Hymns” began as a commission from Forma, the producer of the film. Because of my past work creating films from archival footage edited to music (e.g., “Decasia”), I was approached by David Metcalfe to develop a film with Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson about coal mining in the Northeast of England. What followed was a year of research about the subject, the region, its history. We visited regional film archives and spoke with union organizers. We shot a few of the former mine sites from the air. Drawing on the tradition of colliery brass bands, Jóhann composed a score for brass instruments with pipe organ. The project premiered as a live performance at the Durham Cathedral in July 2010. In September 2010 the soundtrack was recorded in the same cathedral, and we re-edited the film to match the recording. We mastered the finished film with 5.1 audio in January 2011. The finished film will have its world premiere screening at Tribeca April 22. The soundtrack will be released on CD by FatCat Records on May 23. And the BFI will release the DVD on June 20, 2011.
from the comments
Here in Texas, gas is free and comes out of our dicks.
John Cleese charged with speeding near Bath
Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star John Cleese has been charged with speeding.
Bath Magistrates’ Court heard his Mini Cooper was photographed exceeding 30 mph on the A4 at Saltford, between Bath and Bristol, on 6 November last year.
Mr Cleese, 71, who lives in Bath, is also charged with failing to provide the identity of the driver of the car.
Oh, dear. Just last month I was in a car doing 105 mph in a 35 zone here in the Back of the Driftless Beyond.
I decline to provide the identity of the driver. I’ll just keep it my little secret.
like feeding dollar bills to a paper shredder
In California, where gas routinely goes for $4.50 or more these days, a trip to the pump means watching $70 slip through your fingers in three minutes or so. Unless you’re extremely wealthy or a problem gambler, paying for gas is the fastest way you routinely part with your money.
