photo out of context
While we’re on the subject of Japan…
Godzilla!
I can’t believe Joel didn’t post this already. It’s a dude in some sort of mask a plastic wig (?) with a huge prosthetic Godzilla “the islands that make up the nation of Japan” penis destroying an apartment (with the huge prosthetic Godzilla “the islands that make up the nation of Japan” penis) and then some of the footage running in reverse. Let me know if I got any of that wrong, or left anything out.
headline of the day
Dutch woman calls ex-boyfriend 65,000 times
from the comments
The tree is a huge native holly, from a distance it looks like a magnolia. And as the ice thaws, the birds swarm their favorite party tree, stripping it of fermented berries. They create a ruckus, but not the high, shrill din the hawk’s appearances bring. More like they’re sitting on bar stools, trying to out-cheep each other. Little drunkards.
photo out of context
“Our Lady of the Undeground” – Anaïs Mitchell
Advertisements for Suicide
From an essay by James Reich:
Suicide as a complex act has been disgracefully hijacked by the exploiters of the myth of Judas Iscariot, to the impoverishment of our moral orientation, our sympathy, ourselves. Luxury, Armani says, obscures the dead. Luxury obscures suicide. Suicide is a luxury that transfigures.
Mister Rogers
If this piece doesn’t absolutely fucking wreck you, then I don’t know what to say. (via kottke)
tweet of the day
Clerks
at a gas station convenience store. Near Madison, Wisconsin.
“What is the difference between the Dutch and the Germans?”
[Gesturing.] “A boundary — which the Germans have breached on many an occasion.”
“Do they speak the same language?”
“Dutch and German are very close.”
“Because, you see, between Kenya and Tanzania, there is a boundary, but we speak the same language.”
“That — is colonialism, my friend!”
once upon a time
Why were they running, through the dark, along the edge of the river?
shit in one hand, wish in the other, see which fills up faster
A debate is raging between philosophers and scientists over nature of free will. Neuroscientists say they can prove it is an illusion. But philosophers aren’t buying this.
Isn’t this the contemporary equivalent of asking the Pope whether the Earth is at the center of the solar system?
from the comments
In other news (because I feel like it’s too soon for me to post headline of the day, III):
Drunken elk rescued from Swede’s apple tree
…And from what Johansson could gather, this particular animal had been on a day-long bender.
headline of the day, II
Shopper arrested with live lobsters in shorts
can you hear me now?
Many people can be driven to distraction by certain small sounds that do not seem to bother others — gum chewing, footsteps, humming. But sufferers of misophonia, a newly recognized condition that remains little studied and poorly understood, take the problem to a higher level.
Finally, there’s a word for it.
(via marginal revolution)
If you love video games, you should watch this.
Update: It’s the first day at 4:39 PM and it’s nearly halfway to it’s full funding of $50,000.
my current desktop
Jeff Tweedy recites “My Humps”
It’s well documented The Black Eyed Peas “My Humps” gets my vote for the worst song in the history of music, but it has given us the Alanis Morissette’s rendition, and now Jeff Tweedy’s.
(thanks, Andrew)
we’ve secretly replaced the fine coffee they usually serve with Folgers Crystals, or, how to piss off a blogger
A group of food and mom bloggers were invited to a hidden camera bait-and-switch sponsored by ConAgra in promotion of Marie Callender’s frozen lasagna.
“Our intention was to really have a special evening in a special location with Chef George Duran,” said Stephanie Moritz, senior director of public relations and social media at ConAgra.
(via @mattyglesias)
headline of the day
Shmeat: It’s What’s for Dinner
Eric Trabuchi’s Truck Alphabet
From a compendium of graphical alphabets. (Probably the most creative is one about halfway down comprised of a single neon light fabricated in such a way as to form a letter of the alphabet depending how you hold it.)
(via @khoi)
Bill Withers
Ain’t No Sunshine
Franz Kafka – Rock Opera
From one of the greatest animated series of all time.
“cause that’s how science works”
via, of all people, Justin Timberlake
