headline of the day, II
Brooklyn’s Famed Vagina Tree Felled by Irene
Your mother wears combat boots into Japanese apartments, which is impolite.
And other modern insults.
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tweet of the day
from the comments
I can’t fathom the be-all and end-all of farts.
quote out of context
Now my own son has turned 17, the same age as the eggshell boy was then. He was in the void of pre-birth when our friend made his lonely descent through the lift shaft. I have a memory of being with my son when he was four years old. It is winter. We have left the warmth of our house for the freezing night air. There are few lights in the village and the sky is full of stars. We’re hardly out of the front door when he starts coughing. Are you all right? I ask him. It’s okay, he says, I think I just swallowed some dark. I realise that he has the notion that darkness is a substance. It will make you choke if you swallow too much in one go. I could have put him straight with some prosaic account of the coughing reflex. But I didn’t. I stashed away the treasure of the image, and left him with the version of reality fashioned by his own infant brain.
Genis Carreras, Philographics
– a series of posters each capturing a single philosophical ideology through simple geometric shapes.
Did Luke post this already?
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headline of the day
Alaskan woman punches bear in the face to save her dog
from the comments
I’m not a sweets person either. Mashed potatoes and gravy. Turkey at Thanksgiving. Rolls. That’ll work. The secret with the sledgehammer is to let it do the work for you. You hold yourself still and let the hammer go. You guide it, like what do they say about how to hold a bird? Then, once a crack begins to open up, you guide the chisel to the hairline and open it. It splits as effortlessly as butter. Move to a new location. Repeat.
