Friends – I’m His Girl
Something about the retro-ness but exceedingly modern message gets me and gets me good.
Duly Noted
On Saturday night, Jill, a blogger and founder of Feministe, flew from Newark airport to Dublin. After spending Sunday recovering from jetlag, she unpacked her bag on Monday morning and found a special message scrawled on the official form from the TSA. “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL,” it read.
“Guess they discovered a ‘personal item’ in my bag,” she tweeted. “Wow.”
I’m dope enough to assrape the dude who made nicotine.
And, by the way, if you don’t already know these guys, BADBADNOTGOOD, you need to.
Watch this too, then. If you find yourself, though, terrified by the drummer, the thing to do is focus on the piano player. He is a beautiful flower of everything that’s right with the world. Or something.
headline of the day
Vallejo Man Gets Stuck in Baby Swing Overnight
List of science-fiction films
Andrew tweeted this, and I thought it was worth passing on. A Wikipedia science-fiction films list of lists.
quotes out of context
There is even a possibility of seeing skin and hair on the skull of Sediba, a 1.95 million year old youth with the most intact skull ever found.
“It takes four-and-a-half hours to show this property,” said Scott Street of Sotheby’s, the listing agent for the Waterwood Estate, which is now listed on the Vermilion real estate market for $19.5 million.
If you put my name Luttwak together with Perle and Wolfowitz and you search the Internet, you will get this little list of people who run the American government and the world, and I’m on it. I love that.1
People are declaring that we descended from apes. Now, I know that’s not true. The argument that we descended from sheep is still an open question. But the ape idea is completely out of line.
Sagan used to call it carbon chauvinism, but I think we’re worse than that. We’re air-breathing chauvinists and big-brain chauvinists and bipedalism chauvinists. I think there are lots of ways to be chauvinistic.
1This is one of the smartest things I’ve read in a long time.
from someone else’s comments
Two cannibals had killed and were eating a clown,one of the cannibals asked the other,Does this taste FUNNY to you? This has nothing to do with the story,just wanted to tell a cute joke today,
dear clusterflock
Dinosaurs.
An Easier-To-Use Music Player
Now, why music? Well, we love music and it’s always good to do something you love.
Ten years ago today, Apple introduced a music player that would let you take your entire music library with you wherever you go. Since then, well, you know.
TV Dinners in Christos (Χριστός, Κρήτη) Crete
This from Phil Bebbington, at his terrorkitten blog, as well as Flickr.
OFFER — BOWLING BALLS
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle list:
I have about a dozen or so of these. Not sure if they could be used for bowling . . . I was making mosaic gazing from them. No, I don’t know the size/weight of them. In Galena.
From the same poster:
OFFER — extruded styrofoam-type insulation
I have three sheets of this stuff. One is pink, the other two are blue. Not full sheets. I was making Halloween (tombstones) decor with them, and had this left over. There’s enough to make another 6-8 of them.
quote out of context
Activists say the name “unwanted,” which is widely given to girls across India, gives them the feeling they are worthless and a burden.
As Curtis says, “we don’t need to get anal about it”
From a medical standpoint, there are plenty of questions to ask of toilet reading. Most can be worded in vague, euphemistic terms that convey the gist without delving into coprological detail. Does reading material become irreversibly infused with nasty contaminants when carried into the toilet? How long can unpleasant microbes live on glossy magazine covers or, for that matter, the pages of a newspaper? And what does the straightforward act of reading on the toilet do for bowel movements?
A little light reading for your morning constitution.
Also, #buttonhole
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A Sexy Little Halloween
Grace and I have been discussing tentative Halloween plans the last few days and the concept of “sexy” Halloween costumes inevitably came up – not the plan to wear them per se, but their origins. Has this always been a thing?
That illustration is by Jillian Tamaki.
Book Cover Out of Context
Full disclosure: I haven’t read the book, but I have been on a bit of a bear kick lately.
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headline of the day, II
quotes out of context
The Mexican Mafia has much to teach us about crime and governance.
But Muller’s congressional testimony last March didn’t go according to plan.
PS. After looking at this for a while, it reminded me that I need to change my cat’s litter box when I get home.
Reading the essay I’m reminded of the… is it Bruce Chatwin?… quotation that the famed Russian hospitality is mostly just the Russian love for seeing a foreigner drunk.
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headline of the day
San Francisco mayor’s race write-in candidate wants to ‘ban straight marriage’
42 S. Deacon St. #5
There are at least fifty things about her you cannot stand. Maybe a thousand:
She is soft and smells nice. Talks on the phone all day. Makes your favorite meals without being asked. Throws your Maxim magazines on the floor when she’s angry with you. Is sad when an animal gets hurt. Loses your car keys. Asks your opinion and listens to your response as if it matters. There’s more.
The Wingman
As a few of you know, my wife is the packaging engineer for Leatherman Tools. They just released this entertaining video to promote their new tool, the Wingman:
A few weeks ago, she found this sitting on her desk in the morning.
This Isreal
Clark
That is all.
the hipster cop
A few days ago I mentioned doing police work could be interesting and not a few days later Kelsey finds this:
He was dubbed “The Hipster Cop” a little over a week ago, a few days after pictures trickled online of a plainclothes detective—dressed more like an actor from Dead Poet’s Society than NYPD Blue—patrolling the Occupy Wall Street protest. Then the Hipster Cop Twitter jokes started: “He only uses pepper spray ironically.” “Sure I have a nightstick…I bought it on svpply.com.” And just yesterday, The New York Times ran the first interview with Rick Lee, a 45-year-old community affairs detective with an addiction to Ralph Lauren, a.k.a. The Hipster Cop. Or rather, a.k.a. The Country Gentleman.
Maybe I really have missed my calling.
dueling banjos
